The Top 5 Longreads of the WeekThis week’s Top 5 features hand-picked stories about soccer in
The Top 5 Longreads of the WeekThis week’s Top 5 features hand-picked stories about soccer in Kyiv, the Humboldt Broncos tragedy, a CIA hacker gone rogue, Mayan astronomy, and the unexpected benefits of eye contact among musicians on stage. Here’s what editor Cheri Lucas Rowlands had to say about Wright Thompson’s ESPN portrait of Kyiv on the day the men’s national team played Scotland in a must-win World Cup semifinal match. 1. Inside Kyiv on the Night of Ukraine’s Stunning World Cup Qualifier VictoryWright Thompson | ESPN | June 2nd, 2022 | 4,282 words“I came to Kyiv to watch a city watch a game,” writes Wright Thompson. And watch he does, while absorbing and documenting all he can as he wanders the capital and spends time with Ukrainians in this gem of a piece. Thompson captures the air in Kyiv on this first day of summer: the fear felt when air raid sirens go off, the tension that builds in the hour before the men’s national team plays Scotland in a must-win World Cup playoff semifinal, and the strangeness of life, of everything now. “But still there is an unspoken feeling hovering over everything, a mixture of worry that the success they’ve known so far could turn to defeat, that the destruction of war might return to Kyiv.” Everything in this piece feels raw and immediate: the scenes, the conversations, the moments. “History is being written in real time and nobody knows how things will end. These could be the last days of a regional war or the first days of a world war.” What a snapshot of this night, and a fleeting portrait of the city in a time of war. —CLR -- source link
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