FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns
At its best and its worst, the FIFA World Cup is more thrilling than any other event can conjure up. A live performance unequalled in its vigour and trickery, the thralling geometry of its movement a mere foil to the violent earnestness of its combat. From 1930 to 2022, from Pele to Zidane to Mbappe, here's a walk down the lanes of the history of the beautiful game
By: Madhu Kapparath
1990
Hip dance sensation
Neither the players nor the coaches—who found him prickly and demanding and impatient—wanted the 38-year-old veteran Roger Milla back on the World Cup squad. But Cameroon’s President thought otherwise and issue a decree summoning him back. In the second match against Romania, Milla outmuscles Romanian centre-back Ioan Andone, almost falls over, before he springs and shoots the net. Then Milla does something that becomes almost as legendary as the goal itself. His joyful, hip-swinging corner-flag shimmy remains arguably Africa’s finest, and most vivid celebration on the pitch.
