The Last Stand of Soccer’s Greatest Generation – DNyuz

"This is the first generation of players to have spent their entire careers in soccer’s most gilded age, the period — driven by the popularity of the Premier League and the Champions League, by the spiraling demand for television rights, by the insatiable lust for new horizons, new territory — in which the game was transformed from the world’s most popular sport into what the historian David Goldblatt has called the “biggest cultural phenomenon the world has ever known.”

Its clubs have been turned into the ultimate status symbols, squabbled over by oligarchs and sheikhs and nation states. Its showpieces have been borrowed and co-opted for the purposes of politics and power games. The players who have been, in many cases, the driving forces behind that supercharged growth have become the most famous people on the planet."

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The Last Stand of Soccer’s Greatest Generation – DNyuz