Next summer, if all goes to plan, soccer fans from around the world will descend on Foxborough to cheer on their favorite teams at the seven World Cup matches set to be played at Gillette Stadium.

But there’s one potential red card hanging over the whole thing: Finding the roughly $100 million that it’s going to take to pay for all the fútbol, and attendant events, that will unfold in June and July of 2026.

For now, at least, lawmakers on Beacon Hill have brought the ball about as far downfield as they’re willing to go, tucking $10 million into a $2.31 billion year-end budget bill that Gov. Maura Healey signed into law last month .

That was well shy of the $20 million that the Democratic governor had originally sought for the global spectacle. And it disappointed organizers, who were

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