If you read Xherdan Shaqiri’s career, it’s upside down. It’s easy to imagine stepping from a mid-table team to a Champions League team, but he’s doing it backwards like Benjamin Button.
On top of gathering the world’s best footballers for the greatest sporting event known to humanity every four years, each World Cup is a milestone.
These monumental tournaments stick out in our minds, we remember the years. Brazil 2014, South Africa 2010, Germany 2006, etc. They serve as a bus escorting our minds down memory lane–with stops every four years.
The World Cup reminds us of our personal lives at the time. How old (or, more often, young) we were, where we were in life, who we chose to invest our valuable time in, what our chief interests were.