Andrea Canales: Best World Cup Final ever? Why or why not?
Jonathan Tannenwald: I’m not old enough to feel qualified to judge this the best final ever. I was two years old in 1986, which many people had at the top of their rankings for men’s finals before today; and I didn’t start following the sport in the first place until 1998.
If we are also including women’s finals — I can see the emails coming now — the 2011 U.S.-Japan game was wildly dramatic, and the 2019 final was high-quality.
