Some draws feel like a point won. This one felt, for Brazil, like a warning shot they were lucky to survive. Morocco walked into MetLife Stadium against the five-time champions, took the game by the scruff of the neck, and went ahead through a goal good enough to frame. It took a moment of individual…
This week, Nike’s new Mercurial hit the shelves – the boot Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappé will wear at the World Cup that kicks off tomorrow. It costs around three hundred dollars and the marketing copy uses the word “speed” so many times I lost count. I own its grandfather. Back in 2017 I bought…
I own two pairs of soccer cleats. Not because I’m some gear obsessive with a spreadsheet for stud patterns – I own two pairs because I spent a few months pretending one pair could handle every surface, and my knees eventually sent me the invoice. One pair lives in my bag for the artificial turf…