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Soccer’s Landscape Was Already Shifting. Then an Earthquake Struck.

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DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The German language, as should be expected, has a term for it: Grössenwahn. There is not a direct, precise English translation. Megalomania, maybe, though perhaps hubris is better. Grössenwahn implies overestimating your abilities, possessing delusions of grandeur.