The Soccer World Cup in Qatar is expected to shrug off controversies about the host nation’s human rights conduct to deliver record revenue for organisers Fifa.
The one-month tournament, which begins on November 20, is on course to top the roughly $5.4bn (about R93.3bn) the 2018 World Cup in Russia generated for football’s governing body, a person familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified...
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