#BinancePickAndWin 2026 is set apart in soccer fans’ calendars worldwide for the celebration of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) Men’s World Cup, reportedly the most-watched sporting event in the world (Richter Citation2022). In Soccer in sun and shadow, one of the most captivating and influential books on the sport, Uruguayan anti-capitalist intellectual Eduardo Galeano confesses: ‘On the first day of the World Cup, I hung a sign on the door of my house that said: “Closed for soccer”’ (Galeano Citation2013, 269). Afterward, he would