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THE WORLD'S GAME (ACCORDING TO US)

By Austin Kelley

Thursday, July 10, 2008

In America, soccer is often considered a kids game, not really worthy of adults. If we judge by recent events on the international stage, there might be something to that argument. For one thing, soccer is full of sore losers. Take Brazilian rivals Fluminense and Flamengo. When Fluminense lost in last week's Copa Libertadores final to Ecuadorian team LDU, Flamengo players mocked them at practice (Never mind that Flamengo lost weeks earlier). The Fluminense players fumed. It was like a play ...

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