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06.18.18
WORLD FOOTBALL
49
THE WORLD FOOTBALL ISSUE
Open your heart for the 32 teams who, unlike
certain someones (ahem), made the World Cup.
50
HEY, LET’S CHEER FOR FRANCE
At a career crossroads, Paul Pogba is ready
to light up Russia.
BY WRIGHT THOMPSON
58
HEY, LET’S CHEER FOR MEXICO
Maybe our neighbors to the south have been our
true home team all along?
BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO
62
HEY, LET’S CHEER FOR EGYPT
The joy and agony (curse you, Sergio Ramos!) of
rooting for Mohamed Salah.
BY MONA ELTAHAWY
68
HEY, LET’S CHEER FOR BRAZIL
It took not one, not two, but three of our
mathletes to calculate the brilliance of Brazil.
BY SACHIN DAVE CHANDAN, GUS ELVIN AND DAN HAJDUCKY
FORWARD
9
THE BEAUTY OF DEVOTION
One
father’s ode to baseball heartbreak that
unites generations.
BY ÁLVARO ENRIGUE
16
TINY ORAL HISTORY
The eagle has
landed on Mariners LHP James Paxton.
BY ANNA KATHERINE CLEMMONS
COLUMN
6
THE NUMBERS
For Davids hoping
to topple World
Cup Goliaths,
defense is the
best offense.
BY PETER KEATING
70
HEY, LET’S CHEER FOR ICELAND
The island nation (population: Honolulu) shouldn’t
be here. But why stop now?
BY BRUCE SCHOENFELD
78
WORLD VIEWS
An expert look from our experts at their favorites
to shine at the 2018 World Cup.
80
THE NEW HOOLIGANS OF RUSSIA
In search of the brawling soccer gangs that the
host nation doesn’t want you to see.
BY SAM BORDEN
88
HOT MESS TIME MACHINE
The USMNT needs a coach en route to 2022. Follow
this mystical flowchart to find our fate.
18
HOW SHE GOT THAT BODY
A.J.
Andrews’ powerful base gives her a leg
up on the comp.
BY CHARLOTTE GIBSON
22
STADIUM FOOD DECONSTRUCTED
Take a Bao in Da Bronx.
BY DAN HAJDUCKY
24
OVERHEARD AT THE KENTUCKY
DERBY
“It’s like Sodom and Gomorrah.”
BY DOTUN AKINTOYE AND HALLIE GROSSMAN
26
DOWN THE STRETCH
Can we justify
another W for Justify?
BY CHRIS FALLICA
28
THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Two
transgender athletes fight for their right
to compete.
BY KATIE BARNES
Huh, I guess
soccer really is
big in Iceland.
COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY MIKO LIM
STYLING BY KERRY SAXON; GROOMING BY LOUISE MCCANN; PRODUCTION BY LS PRODUCTIONS; TRACKSUIT: MONCLER;
HOODIE: RAF SIMONS; JEWELRY: POGBA’S OWN; THIS PAGE: PHOTOGRAPH BY K ATE PETERS
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BEHIND THE PAGES
Pogba
United
Photographer Miko Lim on getting
footloose with footballer Paul Pogba:
Prior to this cover shoot, I had shot
Pogba three times for commercial
shoots. And honestly, I’ve never seen
him more free and easygoing than
when we got time with him at his
home. It was like being transported
into Pogba’s world with his signature
“PP” logos slapped onto everything.
At one point, he wanted to change up
his look. He ran back to his closet
and came out wearing a fresh pair of
sneakers with the laces untied. I asked
him whether he wanted to tie them
before we started shooting. “Nope,
that’s how I wear them,” he said. This
was the essence of the shoot—cap-
turing real moments with Pogba and
embracing his own personal style,
untied laces and all.
MORE ON PAGE 50
Pogba poses on the pitch he put in his
pad over what used to be an indoor pool.
Staff writer Katie Barnes on prep
wrestler Mack Beggs’ journey
On a Sunday afternoon in Euless,
Texas, Mack’s grandmother
Nancy and I were sitting on her
front porch talking when a storm
rolled through. Nancy called Mack
to tell him to come home. Mack,
who is 19, was supposed to be buying cleaning
supplies nearby, but he didn’t return for another
hour. And when he did, he had a carful of friends
but no cleaning supplies. Nancy looked at him as
if to say,
What are you doing?
In that moment,
Mack wasn’t a transgender wrestler whose face
had been all over. He was just a kid unwilling to
listen to Grandma.
MORE ON PAGE 28
Contributing writer Gustavo
Arellano on rooting for Mexico
I performed a bit of exorcism to
write about my fandom: I started
Arjen Robben for Bayern Munich
on FIFA 2018 for Xbox One. I had
to control, in some way, the man
whose Paul George–esque flop
for the Netherlands against Mexico in the 2014
World Cup round of 16 matchup led to a penalty
kick that led to El Tri’s defeat in the final minute.
We Mexicans have obsessed over this heartbreak
for the past four years, so might as well make
Robben
help
a Mexican for once, you know? I can
report he’s a goal-scoring machine for me, but
still: #noerapenal.
MORE ON PAGE 58
Contributing writer Sam Borden on
the familial ties of Russian fandom
If one spends a few weeks in
Russia reporting on underground
hooligan fighting, one thing that
becomes clear is that most
hooligans don’t tell their loved
ones much about it. So when one
of the country’s most famous hooligans, Arnie,
invited me to meet his family, I figured there might
be some euphemisms or obfuscation in store.
Wrong. Arnie’s wife, Masha, not only embraces the
fighting culture but actually endorses it. As their
toddler son skipped around the apartment, I asked
them whether their boy will fight someday. “It’s
necessary,” Masha said.
MORE ON PAGE 80
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