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Enjoying Soccer in Its Dark Age

Franklin Foer discusses what makes this year’s game so hard to watch—and what it says about the world in 2022.
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Franklin Foer, a staff writer who is contributing to The Atlantic’s new World Cup pop-up newsletter, The Great Game, has been a soccer fan since he was a kid in the 1980s. I talked with Frank about the disturbing aspects of this year’s Cup and what keeps him coming back to the sport.

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