Spain won the World Cup, but La Roja wasn’t the only winner 🏅. And 47 teams lost the World Cup, but they weren’t the only losers 📉.
The biggest—and most American—World Cup ever delivered a steady stream of heroes, failures, surprises and delights over the last month. For Club Sportico, we took a look at the lasting legacies of some of this summer’s brightest stars and most appalling moments.
You can read the full essay here. Below are a few of our picks for the biggest winners and losers:
How better to document the culture blend of the World Cup than by tracking vices? Europeans revived smoking and drinking, and America likely converted a whole bunch of foreigners to ranch dressing and blue cheese.
We’ve largely operated in the past on the idea that all of the big ticket resale marketplaces are the same, but we won’t be ordering on StubHub any time soon.
