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For the 13 games the FIFA World Cup will bring to Canada next year, the sport’s organizers are looking to recruit 6,000 volunteers.

That’s a solid number, although it pales in comparison to the 25,000 recruits the Vancouver Olympics used for the two-week festival of sport in 2010.

FIFA insists it is a non-profit organization, which uses the revenues it generates from its tent pole events, like the men’s and women’s World Cups, to fund the growth of football all over the world. And there is little doubt they do run programs all over the place.

But we also know that the people in charge, mostly men, are well-paid to

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