Saturday, June 19, 2010

World Cup

So, it has become increasingly obvious that, although the United States doesn't really care about soccer or the World Cup, we do care about drama in sports. The latest and biggest drama going on in the World Cup has to do with this referee named Koman Coulibaly.

See, the U.S.
scored a completely legitimate goal against the Slovenia, but this dude decided to disallow it, for apparently no reason at all. See the video of it happening here:



Now, I don't claim to be a soccer/football/futbol/whatever fan whatsoever, but it's amazing to me to see the whirlwind of controversy this has caused, and the reaction of the American people.

Even though the U.S.'s second draw will likely not stop them from proceeding to the second round of the tournament, it's so funny to me that the entire country can come to a standstill because of a single guy:


Yeah, we're all thinking the same thing.

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