THE U.S. WON’T be playing in the World Cup this year, due to a gut-punching loss in the qualifying rounds to Trinidad and Tobago, but over a billion people world-wide are still primed to tune in to the games in Russia which kicked off this week.
With so fervid a following, soccer is permeating every part of culture, from low (the best-selling FIFA videogame) to high (Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan recently made soccer scarfs for museums around the globe and, this month, German photographer Juergen Teller opened an exhibition...