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They Call It The World's Game, But For One Month This Summer, It's the Game's World

By Luke Cyphers

Monday, October 27, 2008

The World Cup is here. Speed and grace. Skill and stamina. Passion, patriotism and pride. Soccer is a many-splendored thing. But it brings an entourage: racism and elitism, jingoism and hooliganism. The game is big, and it's complicated, and it's full of brilliance and stupidityand that's why it so often reflects the world we live in. "Football is the closest game to the people," says French superstar Thierry Henry. "Whatever you have in society, bad or good, you will have in football." Which is ...

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