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One and a half billion people watched the last World Cup final in 2022.
Around five billion watched the tournament as a whole.
As the saying goes, everything is bigger in America,
but the World Cup is one of the few things that dwarfs even the United States.
This week, the tournament comes to the US, Mexico, and Canada.
And perhaps appropriately, it's a supersized World Cup.
48 nations are competing, more than usual.
Today on the Global Story, we're taking questions from you, our listeners,
on everything from allegations over FIFA to host country readiness to predictions for who could win it all.
From the BBC, I'm Tristan Redmond in London.
And I'm Asma Khalid in Washington DC.
And today on the Global Story, the World Cup Q&A episode.
My name is Dale Johnson, and I'm the football issues correspondent for BBC Sport.
What I do is, basically, the best way to describe it is
I write about everything which isn't the ball being kicked.
Can I just say that the fact that we have something at the BBC called a football issues correspondent
is a sign of how seriously we take this sport over this side of the Atlantic.
I think it's also a sign of the times.
Gone are the days when it's just about the result and the tactics and the matches.