Following a month of excitement, surprises and pretty decent games, the World Cup Final wrapped up the Winter Classic, as it’s known. It would be the end product of the most contentious tournament held since 2018. This edition of the World Cup featured a thrilling Cinderella story, discrimination against the LGBTQ community, several contenders failing to get past the group, FIFA ignoring what amounts to mass murder while the organization made $7.5 billion, beautiful soccer stadiums, sportswashing that lacked even a modicum of tact, joyful fans and the deaths of thousands of workers who built the infrastructure in abysmal conditions used to build the nation and host the games that was met with cold shrugs from those responsible.