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.
by Isabel Fattal
Nov 17, 2022
4 minutes
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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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