Bangladesh, July 28 -- We need to internalize a deep psychological and sociological dissection of our national mentality regarding the lessons from the World Cup Final.

Football is not just a race of twenty-two people behind a ball of leather it is essentially a living reflection of a perfect collective psychology.

Just when the final match of the 2026 Football World Cup was composing an epic of impeccable strategy and sacrifice on the world stage, it made our Bengali society stand in front of a piece of mirror.

The biggest tragedy of our core mentality is the extreme lack of team mentality, which is completely opposite to the core philosophy of football.

Where eleven people fight together as one soul on the field, in our society eve...