Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . On a balmy evening in April, the small volunteer staff of Golden Goal —a one-off print magazine and website created to explore some of the World Cup’s many political and financial complexities—gathered in the backyard of a busy Brooklyn bar to drink High Lifes and freak out. The team, all friends and media professionals, includes Alex Shephard, an editor at the New Republic ; Miguel Salazar, a researcher at the New York Times Book Review ; Andy Tan–Delli Cicchi, an editor at Holt Books; and Billy Lennon, the founder of the Cleveland Review of Books . At our feet was Harriet, Shephard’s little village dog, named after Harry Kane, the England striker, “because she’s deceptively quick and she’s got a big head.”  In an editor’s note announcing the project in February , Golden Goal laid down its marker: “Why the World Cup?…