Here we go! For more than a month, the best national football teams will compete during the World Cup. But beyond the field, other matches that are a little more discreet and just as symbolic will be played... because football is becoming more than ever a geopolitical issue. How will the Iranian players behave when the United States, host country of the World Cup, was still bombing them a few days before kickoff? Why are China and India - despite being major demographic powers - invisible at the highest level? And how did the Gulf countries get their hands on a whole section of this historically so Western sport?