In our village tournament, we played with borrowed boots on a muddy field, and the score mattered more than any ranking sheet. These FIFA calculations—points for wins, adjustments for match importance—are just numbers on a page, meaningless to the *uyir* (life) of the game. A "friendly" is worth exactly the joy in my apprentice’s eyes when he controls a difficult pass, not some decimal for a list. I know this because my clay *surai* (needle) for carving pots is more real to me than any table; both shape something, but only one holds water.
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