Team America

The World Cup is on. Africa is quite psyched to be hosting its first tournament and, truthfully, its last for many, many years. It doesn’t really matter how well the South Africans pull it off or how well the “home” teams do (that would be all African teams except Algeria, who would be the first to tell you they are not African), it is just how the tournament is set up. The next time it will be back on this continent is like 16 years from now. Judging by how this development thing is going, maybe not even then. We will enjoy it while we are here.



As it is, African teams continue to underwhelm. The entire continent is disappointed with them. Players not giving it their all despite being some of the best players in the world, coaches not coordinating well, ministers interfering with rosters (see: Cameroon). The last day of the second games was pretty good for them, as none of them were playing and could not, therefore, deliver a disappointing result. Hopefully there will be some amazing results out of South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria in their last games.

As for Algeria, it is appropriate that they don’t consider themselves African because then we don’t have to root for them. We were not going to do that anyway because they are going to try and knock the U.S.A. out of the tournament. This will not happen. We were knocked out by a real (West) African side in the group stage last time. Not this time.

Appropriately, we will dress up in our away jerseys and cheer them on. Mark will continue to wear his U.S.A. world cup mustache until their final game, which will be on July 11th, insh’allah! If all goes well, the U.S. will top the group and exact revenge on that same African side from the last world cup, Ghana, paying them back with interest in the round of 16.



(Team America are ready to win this thing!)