Reflections on Football Woes

They say that soccer (football) is the new nationalism. The passion and zeal citizens formally showed for their governments/militaries/ cultures is now focused on those eleven athletes contending on the football field. This being the case, we have just embarassed ourselves before the entire world. Apparently, Team USA decided not to show up to this year's World Cup in Germany. They just lost 2:1 against Ghana decisively eliminating them from the tournament.

Let us review how the United States faired on the world stage this round: Wins...0, Losses...2, ties...1, goals scored...2 (one of which was an own goal). Hey, at least we managed to score one goal on our own, right?
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