So far, this has been an unexpectedly good World Cup, writes Simon Kuper.
It’s partly the profusion of goals — unmatched since the 1950s — and partly the abundance of minnows, each with its own Cinderella story, some of them doing surprisingly well.
But the tournament’s biggest asset may be, against all expectations, the US.
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