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Every four years, the world watches as scores of players gather into teams to force a ball over a line and into a net without using their hands (well, most of the time). We’ve placed no such restrictions on our own talented team of cartoonists. Here are some of their best soccer cartoons, selected from the archive to celebrate the start of the World Cup.

[#image: /photos/59095114ebe912338a3726ac]See more of The New Yorker’s coverage of the 2014 World Cup.