The scene felt familiar.
FIFA's laughably overproduced Ballon d'Or ceremony, which was
nevertheless rife with screw-ups. The grand-standing, the hubris and the
tin-eared narcissism by the world's ever-embattled governing body. And,
of course, the nomination of Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel Messi
for the big prize as the world's best player of the past year – the
former in a classical tuxedo and the latter in whatever suit made him
the likeliest to be the most outlandishly-dressed kid at the prom.
The
endless pageantry was predictable, making for a night on which the
world's depraved game was polished and buffed up to a high shine, until
it was free of its many blights – the corruption, the shoddy governance,
the human rights abuses perpetrated in its name.
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