Our search for an answer took us from the windy coastline all the way to the heart of Providence, where the atmosphere pulsed with a completely different energy. It doesn’t matter whether you’re standing on a rocky cliff above the waves or in the middle of a chanting crowd in the city - the passion is everywhere.
The answer from our report is ultimately simple: you can’t escape football, because people carry it within themselves.
The pure joy of the game and the round ball connects people across cultures and continents. You can try to hide at the very edge of the world, but as long as there’s a ball nearby and the urge to kick it, no one can take football away from you.
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