“ I mean the--the World Cup is a paradox because it’s at once a great spectacle of globalization fueled by multi-national corporations giving the world this common language of soccer, but at the same time it’s--it’s a festival of nationalism, so people thought that globalization was going to smush nationalism and the World Cup proves that it can actually facilitate nationalism.”
Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World- An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
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