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With the final stage of the World Cup approaching, now is a good opportunity for a mid-tournament appraisal.
This year's Cup, unlike the previous one in Japan and South Korea in 2002, didn't witness any real upsets in the first round.
Otherwise, we're experiencing a wonderful Cup in Germany, in terms of both sportsmanship and the overall atmosphere.
The Cup's organization has been exceptional (as was to be expected), with excellent police work giving hooligans hardly a chance.
In short, Germany during the World Cup is reminiscent of a Shakespearean midsummer night's dream, with a touch of Woodstock to boot.
This World Cup demonstrates three main developments that the sport has undergone.
So we must hope that the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 will finally bring greater global parity.
For now, we have a World Cup filled with soccer that is being shaped by a new, young generation both on and off the playing field - light-hearted, enthralling, and beautiful to watch.
After all, who would have predicted a World Cup final between France and Italy?
If football and its culminating moment, the World Cup, has become the universal religion of the global age, this is above all because it fulfills, in a non-spiritual way, contradictory instincts in human nature.
At the same time, during the World Cup, fans are not only universal; they are also unique, and they can express their difference with impunity, sometimes in the most assertive, aggressive, and, unfortunately, occasionally racist manner.
From this standpoint, this year's World Cup has not only witnessed the triumph of European nations - all semi-finalists were European for the first time since 1982 - but also the absence of even a glimmer of European emotions.
The Cup's explosions of proud nationalism hide more tortured realities.
From ping-pong diplomacy with China to the united German Olympic team that competed in 1990 before actual reunification, sport has prefigured political developments, and politicians everywhere have seized on the importance of the World Cup.
Many millions more Americans watched the World Cup soccer tournament in English and Spanish than ever before.
True, with the World Cup's end, many are arguing, as usual, that Americans pay attention only every four years - and only when the US is playing.
For the US, in particular, the World Cup is a great equalizer.
The World Cup allows all of the supporters of one country to come together at one moment for one game between two groups that must, like them, become more than the sum of their parts.
It actually feels incomplete to watch the World Cup alone.
But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things - the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.
When football matches - at least those that must produce a winner - end in a draw, a penalty shoot-out must resolve the matter, as this World Cup has demonstrated so dramatically.
Many French were troubled by the explosion of joy that followed the victory of the Algerian soccer team over Egypt in its qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
And Swiss federal prosecutors are looking into shady deals behind the decisions to award the World Cup competitions in 2018 and 2022 to Russia and Qatar, respectively.
Coke was the main sponsor of the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, ruled in those days by a brutal military junta.
In the case of Qatar, this meant the right to stage the World Cup in an utterly unsuitable climate, in stadiums hastily built under terrible conditions by underpaid foreign workers with few rights.
For weeks I have sat at my television watching the World Cup. My wife threatens me with divorce and other disciplinary measures.
It is a bitter shock to realize the fragility of our world of freedom, spirituality, and dignity and awaken again (as we will when the Cup winner is decided) in our less hospitable everyday world.
It's that time again: the World Cup is upon us.
The French football heroes who won the World Cup in 1998 included men of African and Arab origin, and they were proud of it.
This year's World Cup might well be a festival of brotherhood and peace.