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World Cup Fever
Why do we watch the World Cup? This is a tournament of paradoxes, a too-big-to-fail quadrennial festival of corruption, cheating, profiteering, nationalist chauvinism and mostly crappy soccer. Yet it can hypnotize and transport to a utopia of competition as idealized and convinc…
Simon Kuper is 56 now. His first memory of a World Cup, if not his first-ever vivid memory–for many of us who grew up outside the United States, the two are often the same–was the 1978 final between the Netherlands and Argentina. “I recall that night as vividly as almost anything else in my childhood,” he writes in World Cup Fever . “A World Cup is like Proust’s Madeleine . …
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