The World Cup in the Cuban way (+ Photos)

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The writing time is not 90 minutes, nor is this photo-report intended to score an analytical goal or discover the "offside" in journalism, but the World Cup phenomenon —understood as the World Cup that of the most universal sport— once again surprises us in its attempt to understand it?

It turns out that 12,000 or so kilometers from here there are 22 men kicking and kicking a ball, with the sole objective of perforating the opposing nets and, in order to witness this sacred act on television, someone —so many countless people— hours before planned to program the alarm on his mobile, checked the Telegram channel of the Electric Company and got up early —in the group phase.

If you wake up with gray stitching —correction! in blackout—, the midfielder instinct will come out in search of the space to watch the game.

The marker will reflect on the face. The final result will be the mood. At times there will be a change of nationality, deification of a guy who trained the lower body for years, feints, free throws. It will be shouting to deaf ears. Two hours.

And it does not end with the final whistle, then there is the debate about what was and what could have been, the controversy over what the player published, the press, about the decisions of those who dress differently without being goalkeepers. Then there is turning the street into a field...

That and much more, impossible to narrate in the "field" of Invasor, occurs during 64 games in an archipelago of fielding and home runs...

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First steps

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Shall we meet in the Var or in the bar?

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Like Neuer, like Neuer…

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MESSÍDO10

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"I want to win the third"

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In the absence of Tele Rebelde, Google

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Someday, someday Cuba will return to the World Cup

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From Barça or from Madrid? From Argentina

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Aren't you going to pass the ball?