this is the most popular sport in the
world and its fans will be the first to
tell you that hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with soccer expert and fan John
Doyle the world is ball is a book about
soccer I’ve covered two World Cup
tournaments and two European
Championships for the globe it’s about
me traveling to the tournaments
describing them and telling people about
the kind of things that you don’t see on
television when you watch the World Cup
or big international soccer tournaments
describing what happens in the streets
in the cities in the places where where
the big games happen tell us about the
correlation between soccer and national
identity it’s one of the cliches about
soccer that a national team sort of
represents the the country elements of
the country the country’s character in
in the way the team plays though there’s
actually some truth in this I think the
English play was a kind of doggedness
with a sort of Bulldog spirit you don’t
necessarily play with a lot of flair but
with a determination the German team
tends to play with precision and
efficiency a country like Spain plays
with great panache with us our Latin
flair to it and you sometimes see
Spanish players on the field and they
almost look like Matadors but one of the
interesting things about the big
tournaments is how for some reason at
the big tournaments people feel
empowered to make fun of the stereotypes
about their own country I’ve been a big
games in Europe where France is playing
and some of the French supporters you
will see guys wearing a beret and
carrying a plastic bag at the Irish for
instance sometimes they will dress as
leprechauns why is soccer such a global
phenomenon it’s one of the few
international languages that we have
it’s one of the few things that every
culture no matter where in the world and
want to what your background if you’re a
cassoulet
kachou muslim anywhere in the world you
understand soccer and why would you say
north america has only recently jumped
on the bandwagon I don’t ever expect
that soccer will become the number one
sport in Canada in the United States if
you’re interested in soccer in the u.s.
that kind of signals you as a outward
looking forward thinking person a person
who’s interested in the world outside
the United States whereas if you despise
soccer and some people do in the United
States despise it as being you know
European and foreign and alien then that
signals you often as a Republican
somebody who believes that North
American sports like baseball and NFL
football are superior because they are
the American game what is going to
happen I think is that cultural
diversity waves of immigration that’s
slowly changing the role of soccer the
number of young people who are playing
soccer in both countries I think
indicates that eventually it will become
the third fourth most popular sport here
thank you very much you’re welcome enjoy
the World Cup
world and its fans will be the first to
tell you that hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with soccer expert and fan John
Doyle the world is ball is a book about
soccer I’ve covered two World Cup
tournaments and two European
Championships for the globe it’s about
me traveling to the tournaments
describing them and telling people about
the kind of things that you don’t see on
television when you watch the World Cup
or big international soccer tournaments
describing what happens in the streets
in the cities in the places where where
the big games happen tell us about the
correlation between soccer and national
identity it’s one of the cliches about
soccer that a national team sort of
represents the the country elements of
the country the country’s character in
in the way the team plays though there’s
actually some truth in this I think the
English play was a kind of doggedness
with a sort of Bulldog spirit you don’t
necessarily play with a lot of flair but
with a determination the German team
tends to play with precision and
efficiency a country like Spain plays
with great panache with us our Latin
flair to it and you sometimes see
Spanish players on the field and they
almost look like Matadors but one of the
interesting things about the big
tournaments is how for some reason at
the big tournaments people feel
empowered to make fun of the stereotypes
about their own country I’ve been a big
games in Europe where France is playing
and some of the French supporters you
will see guys wearing a beret and
carrying a plastic bag at the Irish for
instance sometimes they will dress as
leprechauns why is soccer such a global
phenomenon it’s one of the few
international languages that we have
it’s one of the few things that every
culture no matter where in the world and
want to what your background if you’re a
cassoulet
kachou muslim anywhere in the world you
understand soccer and why would you say
north america has only recently jumped
on the bandwagon I don’t ever expect
that soccer will become the number one
sport in Canada in the United States if
you’re interested in soccer in the u.s.
that kind of signals you as a outward
looking forward thinking person a person
who’s interested in the world outside
the United States whereas if you despise
soccer and some people do in the United
States despise it as being you know
European and foreign and alien then that
signals you often as a Republican
somebody who believes that North
American sports like baseball and NFL
football are superior because they are
the American game what is going to
happen I think is that cultural
diversity waves of immigration that’s
slowly changing the role of soccer the
number of young people who are playing
soccer in both countries I think
indicates that eventually it will become
the third fourth most popular sport here
thank you very much you’re welcome enjoy
the World Cup
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