If you’re a soccer fan, or one of the hundreds of millions of people around the globe who have been watching the World Cup these past two weeks … thank you. I love you. You’re my people.
But this story is not for you.
This story is for the person who has not yet had the good fortune of being exposed to soccer on a local or international scale. The person who doesn’t “get” the game yet, or understand why people would wake up at all hours of the night to watch two countries they’ve never visited square-off against one another.