Sporting Life
Please God, don’t let him miss: The tragic, hypnotic beauty of the shoot-out
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Egypt’s Hossam Abdelmaguid scores the penalty to win the shoot-out as the North African side defeat Australia at the World Cup in the last 32.
PHOTO: REUTERS
From Egypt and Australia, in cafes and bars, small towns and big cities, in these lands of fennec foxes and kangaroos, separated by language and coffee, one famous for a river and the other for a reef, comes a similar desperate prayer on July 3.
God, please, don’t let him miss.
