High fit

Sync is about alignment between what you feel inside and how you show up. For most of the World Cup, Franco Catalano was badly out of sync — presenting himself as a calm, rational observer while privately screaming at the television and invoking superstitions about his wife's location in the apartment. The bar scene was the moment his inner experience and outer presentation finally matched: he admitted out loud that he'd caught the fever and went to watch the final with his people.