World Cup

Hello Rabbi,
I read the amusing column about lighting candles at the World Cup.
I would like to ask in a slightly more serious tone that concerns me (and I did not find a reference to it in a search of previous questions).
Some see the World Cup as just bread and butter, 22 players running after a ball, etc.
However, there are quite a few real advantages to the World Cup, for example, it is claimed that it is a kind of sublimation of wars between nations, etc.
You can also see the values ​​that sport promotes in general (although not the competitive kind), etc.
At the same time, yesterday I discovered that many, many people whom I greatly respect, intellectually and morally, spent a lot of time watching the World Cup.
And I wonder how this phenomenon should be addressed.
Should we treat this like any other psycho-physical phenomenon (eating, drinking, relaxing), etc.? If so, I have no problem with that, but I feel uncomfortable with the general preoccupation of even the upper class people who join the celebration, while perhaps it would have been better to at least transform the event in a way similar to the Peace Project, so that its success would lead to the promotion of physical activity in the community / or at least to voice a public direction in this. For example, it would have been possible to purchase the rights to broadcast remotely and save the public corporation’s money invested in flying a selected delegation of broadcasters, etc.
The same is true for other Toto games, etc., but there I don’t see people of high standing who feel they have to see the final.
Or perhaps this global event does have some depth with a message that goes beyond the limits of my narrow vision.
For example, one could say that the status of the “audience” and perhaps even things in terms of abrogating the Torah, especially in the age of Zoom. However, it is understandable that such a gathering serves a higher purpose, etc.
I would love to know, Rabbi.