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June 12, 2006
Hilarious Explanations of Futbol
You simply must read Dave Egger's excerpt from his book The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup, on Slate. Here's an excerpt of the excerpt:
The beauty of soccer for very young people is that, to create a simulacrum of the game, it requires very little skill. There is no other sport that can bear such incompetence. With soccer, 22 kids can be running around, most of them aimlessly, or picking weeds by the sidelines, or crying for no apparent reason, and yet the game can have the general appearance of an actual soccer match. If there are three or four coordinated kids among the 22 flailing bodies, there will actually be dribbling, a few legal throw-ins, and a couple of times when the ball stretches the back of the net. It will be soccer, more or less.
Also check out Luis Arroyave's Red Card blog on the Trib's site. While not quite laugh out loud funny like Eggers, Arroyave does provide good color commentary on what it's like to be in the host country during a World Cup.
Posted by cj at June 12, 2006 06:42 AM