{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Mathematical 7","provider_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7","title":"The Final Chapter - Glimpses of Tomorrow! - Mathematical 7","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"32aCWaRQ5V\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/the-final-chapter-glimpses-of-tomorrow\/\">The Final Chapter &#8211; Glimpses of Tomorrow!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/the-final-chapter-glimpses-of-tomorrow\/embed\/#?secret=32aCWaRQ5V\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Final Chapter &#8211; Glimpses of Tomorrow!&#8221; &#8212; Mathematical 7\" data-secret=\"32aCWaRQ5V\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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It encapsulates my unique experience. As is wont every 4 years I look at the World Cup through a special lens, the product of all my years covering the greatest event in the world since 1994 when Nigeria first qualified to participate. It is the same feeling since then when I am about to script the final lines of the last page. The nostalgia of the past one month, of a genuine feast of football and friendship, flood my mind in pictures that want to linger forever. Then, I start to wish either for the World Cup not to end, or for it to be repeated all over again. Neither wish sustains beyond that fleeting moment. Reality dawns as the celebrations end and the world returns to its chaotic ways of wars and conflicts. There is no comparable human activity that commands the same level of power as the World Cup and \u2018the beautiful game\u2019.Between them, it is the coming together of the best players of the greatest sport in the world. It is in the assembly of the single largest audience at any known human activity. It is in the total submission of humanity to a small round leather object being kicked by 22 ordinary with extraordinarily gifted football players across the divides of colour, race, religion, ethnicity, language, culture, economic status, and so on. There is simply no other human activity that attracts that same kind of equalization, passion, followership, emotions and sentiments in the world. None!I do not have the final figures yet, but, conservatively, one million strangers from all corners of the earth visited a country most of them believed is hostile (even evil), unfriendly, despotic, racist and brutal in its attitude to the rest of the world. People went to same Russia drawn by the irresistible power of a game that once again demonstrated its awesome but largely underutilized power to drive any agenda on earth - political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, social, etc. That\u2019s why the Russians had to do with the World Cup what nothing else could have done as well by going to every conceivable length to host and organize the 2018 championship with the clear intent that the world will see a different and new Russia. They succeeded!It is debatable now, but several authorities on the World Cup are already singing the praises of the host nation to high heavens, and describing the event as the best organized World Cup in history, mainly because of the magnitude of the \u2018mountains\u2019 Russia had to climb to change the world\u2019s perception about the country. Last weekend, when the final matches were being played it was a summation of a month-long experience of a nearly flawless organization of a football spectacular - friendly, smooth and entertaining. Despite the huge distances between match venues and the massive number of visiting crowds, supporters of teams traversed the entire country and filled every stadium with colour and voices without any hitch or hindrance."}