The World Cup used to let us micro-dose politics. Now it is engulfed by it | World Cup 2026
By: Nesrine Malik | Published: 2026-07-15 12:57:53 | Source: www.theguardian.com
I have measured my life in World Cups. The first blurry moments of childhood memory, the passing into adolescence, starting university. Each tournament marks a season of life. Each one is also associated with potent, formative emotional events: Roger Milla dancing around the corner flag when Cameroon became the first African team to reach the quarter-finals in 1990; Roberto Baggio’s devastating…
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