Por que os EUA boicotam a Copa:

"The abandonment of soccer is attributable, in part, to the fact that people of influence in America long believed that soccer was the chosen sport of Communists. When I was 13?this was 1983, long before glasnost, let alone the fall of the wall?I had a gym teacher, who for now we'll call Moron McCheeby, who made a very compelling link between soccer and the architects of the Iron Curtain. I remember once asking him why there were no days of soccer in his gym units. His face darkened. He took me aside. He explained with quivering, barely mastered rage, that he preferred decent, honest American sports where you used your hands. Sports where one's hands were not used, he said, were commie sports played by Russians, Poles, Germans, and other commies. To use one's hands in sports was American, to use one's feet was the purview of the followers of Marx and Lenin."

O texto é do Dave Eggers, que sempre merece uma olhada. Ele faz uma comparação, um pouco mal desenvolvida, sobre a encenação de faltas no futebol e a "fairness" dos esportes inventados pelos EUA - porque, enfim, "as a nation of loony but determined inventors, we prefer things we thought of ourselves".

Mas se você conhece o Eggers sabe que ele está longe de ser um fanático patriota. O fim do texto, típico dele, comprova.

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