How the World Cup Finally Won Over America
Galaxy Brain
The Atlantic
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 1:01.4 | field, their nation's histories, their nation's politics, their nation's cultures take the field |
| 1:06.5 | alongside them. So the World Cup is actually a mirror. Completely that's a mirror to the world that |
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| 1:21.0 | talk about the World Cup. Over the past month, I've seen strangers in the airport rapturously |
| 1:25.5 | celebrating over last second goals. I've watched |
| 1:28.2 | gaggles of men and women kicking soccer balls on city streets clad in a veritable United Nations of |
| 1:34.1 | jerseys. There are people in my life who are normally allergic to sports, and they've come over |
| 1:38.8 | for Marathon World Cup viewing sessions. At one point, I found myself a man originally from Cleveland, Ohio, wearing a |
| 1:45.5 | Senegal jersey, sweatily embracing a Senegalese man after a spectacular volley sent a ball into the |
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