Are you watching any of the World Cup matches? I don’t follow soccer, but have to admit that these matches are great viewing, I think.
What do you think?
By the way, here’s an excerpt of explanatory article from the Atlantic on why Americans call soccer ‘soccer':
In May, Stefan Szymanski, a sports economist at the University of Michigan, published a paper debunking the notion that “soccer” is a semantically bizarre American invention. In fact, it’s a British import. And the Brits used it often—until, that is, it became too much of an Americanism for British English to bear.
Below, a player-of-the-day clip featuring Luis Suárez: