Hey guys, i was just given an assignment to do a comparative commentary on a poem and an essay.. however, i dont understand what the poem is talking about, moreover analysing it! Please help!! I just need help on what do you think the structure and purpose of this poem.. or maybe style of writing?? I DONT UNDERSTAND A BIT!!
need help desperately..

World Cup

It is, after all, a kind
Of music, an elaborating of themes
That swell and subside, which
In the converting of open spaces
Take on a clean edge.
A throw, a chip,
A flick, Wilson to Charlton,
To Moore, to Hunt, to Greaves -
The ddiagonals cross, green space is charmed

A precise moment, balletic in ordained
Agility, with the players as if magnetised
Moving intoplaces seemingly allotted them
- They seem from above to be pushed like counters
And only the fluffed pass, the momentary
Crudity disconcerting as a clerical oath,
Destroys the illusion. A goal restores it.

Arms raised like gladiators, they embrace.
Human emotions swamp them, childishly even
For such protagonists of perfection.
- And involved in this mixture
Of the fallible and the dreamy,
The percussive and the lilting, they demonstrate
How art exists on many levels, spirit
And matter close-knit as strangling lianas.