For Your Weekend Reading Pleasure

In honor of this weekend’s friendly (that’s exhibition for those of you unschooled in the rhetoric of the beautiful game) between the United States men’s national soccer team and Argentina’s, we bring you a story written by Barry Yourgrau in the current issue of Culture and Travel. In it, the spoken-word poet tells of taking in a game between Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid at the latter’s Vicente Calderón Stadium. It’s not Bill Buford’s Among