lrb At the Fifa Congress vote in Stockholm in May 1983, Mexico’s favoured bid presentation lasted eight minutes. Making the competing case for the US’s first tournament, Henry Kissinger was into the second hour of his pitch ‘when he realised the Mexicans were already celebrating downstairs’. Reflecting ruefully on the chicanery of Fifa politics, he remarked: ‘It made me nostalgic for the Middle East.’ cr：杭之冯玥感谢您关注此人