Source: Persuasion
by Quico Toro
“What if your favorite thing in the world was in the hands of a ghoul? Like the damsel in King Kong’s hand, the FIFA World Cup is a thing of rare beauty in the grip of a monster. The tournament is disfigured by its prefix: FIFA, football’s cartoonishly evil world governing body, a cartel of such rapacious vice its perfidy almost — but never quite — obscures the luminescent glory of el mundial. … Every four years, the World Cup plants a flag in my life, transforming the boring middle-aged fart I’ve become back into the awestruck eight-year-old with a heart broken at the hands of Paolo Rossi.” (06/11/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/yes-i-will-be-watching-every-minute