What Makes the World Cup (Still) Great
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What Makes the World Cup (Still) Great
By Jason Gay (Wall Street Journal, 6-16-2014)
Rio de Janeiro
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Boh Knows World Cup |
Look:
I'm not going to lie to you. Never. I guess I could try to bluff my way
through this, try to convince you from here, 10 airborne hours from New
York City via sumptuous upgrade from economy to economy comfort—neither
comfortable nor economic, as it turns out—that I am a true futebol obsessive,
with the game packed deep inside my bones. I wish I could tell you, in a
hushed tone rich with emotion, that this beautiful game had both lifted
and broken my heart, and my father's heart, and my grandfather's heart,
and the heart of Zidane, our beloved family dog. That would be great. I
wish I could tell you soccer makes me cry. I really wish I could tell
you we had a family dog named Zidane. But I can't. Not yet.
The
truth is I'm still new to the whole World Cup experience. I had a
couple of days at South Africa 2010 but I still feel green and a little
confused. I'm ready to be captivated, however. On Sunday morning I woke
up in Rio at our Journal WC 2014 headquarters (medium glam) not far from
Copacabana beach (actual glam), and before I had my a.m. coffee, I was
jarred by a noisy ruckus in the streets. I looked out the window to see
Argentina fans marching and singing in white-and-light-blue jerseys. It
was barely 9 in the morning. Argentina's game with Bosnia and
Herzegovina at Maracanã Stadium was not for another 10 hours. Back home,
if a bunch of Jets fans came parading past my apartment at 9 a.m., I
would take my family down to the basement and barricade the door. But
this was fantastic. It made me want to run outside and join.
This
mania is what makes the World Cup great, what makes the Cup the Cup—the
electric collision of national pride and the planet's most popular
sport compressed into an exhausting but riveting monthlong saga. It's
ugly business, too—Brazil is torn over this Cup, disgusted over the
grotesque sports spending in a country that needs much more than shiny
stadia. Protests have happened; protests are expected; there are hard
and important questions about what will be left when the soccer and the
world leaves. Of course, FIFA, the sport's blundering governing body,
knows it sells an addictive product, and it counts on the public to set
any caution aside as soon as the Cup begins. And then the Cup begins,
and it is indeed hard not to love. This surely makes me a sucker, part
of the problem.
But it's intoxicating in
so many ways, especially this Cup, in a dynamic country already
confirmed as soccer-mad, holder of five World Cup titles, and among the
favorites in 2014. I have seen enough of this Cup to know that the true
soccer-heads are thrilled with the early games, which have been
thrilling even to an untrained eye—upsets, aggression, goals galore,
often in rapid succession. Whoever complains there is not enough scoring
in soccer is not watching this soccer. Also: I am reasonably sure the
Netherlands could beat the Orlando Magic.
Controversy
is a inexorable part of any World Cup, and it is here in both serious
and absurd form. Brazil's contentious Cup began with a discussion of the
contentious Cup two contentious Cups down the road, in Qatar, in 2022,
and the debate of whether or not it should be moved someplace with fewer
logistical issues, like Saturn. Less grave were the predictable referee
disputes—a penalty kick awarded to Brazil in its opener over Croatia,
handed out by the referee for contact that—at worst—resembled a tender
cuddle. Later, Croatia coach Niko Kovac, taking a restrained view,
wondered if his team should just "give up and go home." France has
complained that drones may have been spying on their practices. On
Sunday, the robots sent a peace offering to France, awarding a goal-line
tech score to Les Bleus in their 3-0 win over Honduras.
Like
the French national team, traveling around Brazil can be unpredictable
and sometimes exasperating; when you ask a worried out-of-towner when
you should leave to go to the airport, you are told you should have left
two months ago. I've been lucky—after the Brazil opener in São Paulo, I
went breezily on to Rio. That afternoon I sat behind a taxi driver who
watched the Uruguay-Costa Rica game from a phone suctioned below the
rearview mirror. When it rang, he picked it up and told his wife to not
distract him.
On Saturday night, I went
to the crowded fan fest to watch the Italy-England game played up north
in Manaus. This is a game that would be a big loud deal in my Brooklyn
neighborhood back home, and it was a big loud deal here, too; the
Inglaterra fans showered the crowd with Coca-Cola cups after Daniel
Sturridge's first-half goal. But the victory went to Italy, which had
the second-half gas in the Amazonian heat. Sunday night I rushed off to
Argentina-Bosnia at legendary Maracanã, the stadium stacked with joyous
fans, soccer icon
Lionel Messi
on the field below. On Monday, the U.S. team would make its debut against Ghana.
It's
early here. Pacing feels essential. Imagine a Super Bowl after a Super
Bowl after a Super Bowl until you have counted for a month. But the
World Cup is manic from the start. Heartbreak and contemplation comes
later. We are now four days in and I have yet to hear a stray remark
about the U.S. Open or the Heat and the Spurs or even the Mets. A lot of
major sporting events like to claim they're the center of the sports
universe. This feels like the center of the sports universe. There's
nothing like a World Cup. Even a newcomer can detect that.
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its a boring game for humans..maybe cool for dogs or some animal without arms....anyway...why not make it real interesting,,,,cover one eye and both ears......hell you dont need em anyway to run around a field...and why do you get to use your head??? that should be illegal too
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