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The World's Game (According to Us)

By Austin Kelley

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

President Obama threw his weight behind the U.S. World Cup bid this week with some lovely words about the world's game. "As a child, I played soccer on a dirt road in Jakarta," Obama wrote to FIFA, "and the game brought the children of my neighborhood together." Soccer, according to the president, is a game of "unity" and "camaraderie." Well then, he must not have seen last weekend's cross-town derbies. Two major intra-city rivalries in Istanbul and Rome, and one emerging hatred in Los Ang ...

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