‘Let’s go with the heart’: Zohran Mamdani thinks this African team will win the World Cup

The New York City mayor sat down with the Guardian and, using our World Cup Bracketology game, made a historic prediction for this summer

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani walked confidently across the City Hall lawn on Thursday, sat down, and admitted that he had not had time to do much research into who he thought was going to win this summer’s World Cup.

On the face of it, this should come as no surprise. Mamdani oversees the municipal government of the United States’ largest city – one facing record-high rents and continued fears over ICE, and which faced a budget crunch among myriad other issues upon his election to office.