Good morning, happy World Cup, please read this brilliant Sam Rosati Martin story about ambitious soccer refs striving to make it pro—self-serious, much-abused true believers without whom the game couldn't exist. #longreads #sundaylongread thelocal.to/soccer-refer...
Making it pro as a referee in Canada is in many ways harder than making it pro as a player. That doesn’t stop this corps of exacting, self-serious officials from trying.
