Sporting Life
As the World Cup starts, strangers unite and respect flares
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Sweden midfielder Yasin Ayari showing respect to Tunisia, where his father came from, with muted celebrations after he scored in the Swedes' 5-1 World Cup group-stage win on June 14.
PHOTO: AFP
In a movie hall on a Saturday afternoon, a voyage with strangers. On the screen, aliens. In the darkness, awe. For this 145-minute ride through Disclosure Day we are, for all our differences, one village. It’s a moment, as Steven Spielberg says in an interview, when we are “in communion” and “we are a community”. Strangers laughing, and crying, and singing, and sharing.
It makes me think of the World Cup.
