Trick or spice? How the ‘nutmeg’ came to dominate the soccer world

The FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Ball “Trionda” is shown at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City last October. Sarah Stier/Getty Images North America

Sarah Stier/Getty Images North America

You may know nutmeg as an item that lives in your spice cabinet. But did you know its colorful verb form?

“You get nutmegged on the pitch — it’s actually psychologically damaging,” Solomon Tesfaye, 33, said on a muggy spring Monday at a pickup soccer

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