Personal essays, reflections and field notes.
For a few minutes, Tofazzel was sitting in a canteen eating rice like anyone else. Someone had to serve him the food. Someone watched him eat. Someone spoke to him. Then he was taken back and beaten again. How does a person do both?
In your farewell message, you said you had given everything. That you had emptied yourself. That there was nothing more to give. That line is difficult to read.
Until the 85th minute of Thursday’s semifinal, Argentina were trailing England by a goal, and a spot in the final seemed to be slipping away. The clock seemed to be carrying Lionel Messi away with it.