According to soccer fans around the world, "Soccer is the strength of your country." It's also the universal sport of the world.
However, if you're anything anti-English, it's for douches. Hence, the lack of popularity in the pouting "Divided" United States.
From the picture above, the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, in Rustenburg, South Africa, looks more like an amoeba from a biology textbook.
In a world defined by it's resources, Rustenburg's Royal Bafokeng Stadium is a trophy for it's platinum rich region.
The U.S. Men's, a.k.a. The Yanks, first chapter in the 2010 World Cup against England, a.k.a.
The Three Lions, will be held June 12 at Royal Bafokeng Stadium.
Whether you fancy biology parallels, like amoeba-looking stadiums, this match isn't nearly as important to the Americans back home as it is to the English patriots.
The American attention span for soccer, or futbol, is about as interesting to their general public as reading the entire terms and agreement for upgrading itunes.
The English, on the other hand, have more at stake. They invented the game. Period.
More interesting is when a collapsing super power, like America, performs like a bunch of middle schoolers against countries barely the size of North Carolina or even Texas. In such instances, the world watches and mocks, "Any country worth fighting for has a good soccer team and any country worth dying for has a great soccer team." Where's the dream team for American soccer?
Should America's soccer team, the Yanks, be responsible for it's patriot's patriotism?
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