World Cup 2026 news: latest from the camps; protesters block road to Azteca; Messi’s scoring return

UN rights chief Volker Turk has weighed in on the World Cup visa controversies – some of which I listed out here yesterday – including the refusal to admit Omar Artan, the referee who was bizarrely deemed a threat to national security by US officials.

Speaking in Geneva, AFP reports Turk said: “I really hope that there’s a massive re-think of how immigration enforcement is impacting human rights and human dignity, and that especially for the World Cup, there is a re-think of the policies that we have unfortunately seen prevailing, especially in the US”

Artan, meanwhile, if you hadn’t seen, has been given a hero’s welcome on his return to Somalia, vowing “I promise you, God willing, that I will attend the next one.”