A new generation, with absurd skill and chill, emerges at World Cup

England beat China, 6-1, at the World Cup on Tuesday. (Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/Reuters)Comment on this storyADELAIDE, Australia — To hopscotch from a match Saturday night in Brisbane to a match Sunday night in Sydney to a match Monday night in Melbourne to a match Tuesday night in Adelaide yielded something beyond a batty tour of Australian coastal cities plus serial viewings of the Qantas airline safety instruction video. It lent a feeling of the churn of generations.

The sense of a fresh generation coming in like some Tasman Sea wave tore through these World Cup nights both off and on the pitch. It turned up in the crowds of Brazilians (Brisbane) and Colombians (Sydney) and Australians…