If you are like me, you are looking forward to the May 27 Champions League showdown between Man United and Barcelona. No doubt, many here in DC will be taking a break from work to head to a nearby pub or to watch from the office. Even Obama seems to be a soccer fan. In an appearance on Univision last week, he spoke about his hopes for securing the US as a host for a future World Cup and the growth of the game in the States.
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Pardon?
The United States DID host the World Cup in recent years.
Has he never heard of USA 94? Thats only 4 tournaments back.
The birthplace of football (or soccer as you call it), England, hasn't hosted a World Cup for over forty years and many other countries that where the game is taken seriously have never hosted the event. I have no problem with the USA as a hostUSA as a host (they did a good job in 94) but its ironic to suggest that having the US as a host will help promote the game when it doing just that clearly didn't leave much of a memory for a 'fan' like Obama.