The top-four seeding highlights Fifa’s focus on marketing over sporting integrity yet again, although even the most strategic plans can fail. The plastic balls roll within the glass bowls of fate. Ominous music sets the scene, evoking a sense of potential, as if the universe’s secrets are suddenly exposed, revealing the three Fates with their spinning wheel, measuring rod, and shears.
A World Cup draw represents a moment of perfection, a platonic vision before reality intrudes. Every player is fit and in top form. Each nation appears as an ideal version of itself – free of injuries, bonus disputes, fatigue worries, weather issues, or player distractions from possible transfers; it embodies the World Cup as pure potential. With Friday’s draw, next summer will suddenly seem much closer.
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