Soccer, Fußball, Football, or w/e you call it I think is quite possibly one of the best things to happen to the world.
Once every four years the countries of the world put aside their differences, and send their best players to compete for the right to call themselves world champions, and while with all the other sports going on all the time, this may seem to get lost on people, even those who call themselves football fanatics, a lot of the subtle things that happen seem to go unnoticed by the population.
I don't show emotion all that often, as anyone who knows me will say, but I must admit, after witnissing the Iranian team give the Mexican keeper a bouquet of flowers in honour of his recently departed father yesterday, I almost cried.
Now I know this doesn't always happen, and football does have a bad reputation for rioting and stuff in some circles, but I say if the best players in the world can once every four years get together to play some of the best football ever recorded, and set aside their differences for even just one month to play for the love of the game, and for their country, rather than for millions of dollars to play for their teams, and at the same time show eachother the amount of respect and admiration that I've seen over the past few world cups, then I say bravo.
Who needs the United Nations or anyother such thing when such a simple thing as the game of football can bring even the bitterest of eneimes together on the pitch for a fun filled 90 minutes of excitment? Personally, I think calling Football "The Beautiful Game" has taken on more than a slogan, and in actuality, is more of a philosophy.