如果足球及其顶峰时刻的世界杯已经成为全球化时代的大一统的宗教，那么，这一宗教尤其如此，因为它以一种非精神的方式满足了人类本性中矛盾的本能。
If football and its culminating moment, the World Cup, has become the universal religion of the global age, this is above all because it fulfills, in a non-spiritual way, contradictory instincts in human nature.