EP160 [全英] 地表最大活动：世界杯到底有什么魔力？

Today, I want to talk about what will probably be the biggest global event of this summer: The 2026 FIFA World Cup. Now, before you click away because you’re not a soccer fan, hear me out. Because honestly, I’m not exactly a hardcore soccer fan either. Growing up in Asia, soccer wasn’t really the sport everyone talked about. Then I went to the United States, where “football” usually means a completely different sport. And now I’m living in Australia, where people are obsessed with rugby, cricket, and AFL. So I’ve never really lived in a place where soccer was the undisputed king. But every four years, even people like me get pulled into the World Cup. And I think that’s what’s so fascinating. Because somehow, a sport that many of us barely follow suddenly becomes the center of the world’s attention. People who haven’t watched a single soccer match in four years suddenly become fanatics. Friends start talking about group-stage predictions. Families gather around televisions. Social media explodes. Entire countries seem to stop functioning for a few weeks. And somehow, billions of people start caring about the exact same thing. <p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;te