Posted on 06/09/2002 7:28:23 PM PDT by truthandlife
After the United States soccer team's shocking defeat of Portugal on Thursday in the World Cup, I would like to find out who will be watching the U.S. play South Korea on Monday morning? The match is on at 1:20 a.m. central time on ESPN2(fire up the coffee maker).
I did not get up to watch the Portugal match because I was not too confident in the U.S.'s chances but I am starting to turn into a believer. I will be watching this one live. It was very surprising that about 1 million people in the United States watched the U.S.-Portugal game last Wednesday at 4 o'clock in the morning. GO USA!!!
Yeah, must've been 1 million foreign immigrants.
LOL. Actually, soccer ("calcio") was popular with a lot of the older Italian guys who came over after WWII who lived in my area of NY (Nassau County, near Queens) when I was a kid. Furthermore, I now live in a neighborhood in Miami that is largely Colombian and work mostly with Latin Americans of various nationalities. You would be taking your life in your hands if you called soccer what it is. Most norteamericanos that I know who like soccer tend to be liberal Europhiles (are there any other?) and moms "concerned" about safety.
We have enough sports to keep us preoccupied. The rest of the world doesn't give a sh-t about our football, we in turn don't give a flying f-ck about theirs. That's just the way it is...
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