A few thoughts following the end of the FIFA World Cup 2022
The good, the bad, the ugly and the legendary of the event that transpired for the last 28 days in the small nation of the Arab Gulf and had the eyes of the entire world — or most of the world — transfixed on it, waiting to see which would be the next story to come out from the pitches of the blood-stained golden stadiums.
Wow. It’s finally over. It’s difficult to believe that we no longer have to wake up at ungodly hours of the morning (hello, Australia calling!), walking around like zombies for the rest of the day as we try to go about our routines in the best of our abilities. And the funny thing is, we did this voluntarily, day-after-day, for weeks!
That’s what you would call the “World Cup effect”. Football-crazed fanatics, not wanting to miss a single moment of even the most seemingly boring matches (Qatar-Ecuador, amirite?) were heavily sleep-deprived for the past month.
That’s all come to an end rather abruptly, yet in the most incredible way imaginable as arguably the greatest World Cup of all time seemed to save the best for last: a final between teams of Europe and Latin America with six goals, two of which were scored in extra time, that was decided in a penalty shoot-out.
It felt so good to be true that some even thought that it was, coming up with the…
