48 nations. Thousands of players. Billions of fragments of culture, memory, and identity assembling themselves, for a few weeks, into one overwhelming image. I can't watch a single match without seeing it as a mosaic. This has been my obsession for fifteen years. I finally wrote https://t.co/Xo6KilYVEV #Football #Culture #Mosaic #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountriesbyname #sotherearenocountrycodestoreturn.