Vinay Kumar
In a thrill-a-minute World Cup, where goals are flying in at an unprecedented rate – 102 goals from 33 matches so far, at a rate of 3.1 goals per game, the highest since 1958 – consider the goalkeeper.
As the Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano wrote in Football in Sun and Shadow , “He’s alone, condemned to watch the game from afar. Never leaving the goal, his only company the three posts, he awaits his own execution by firing squad. They say where he walks, the grass never grows.”
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