Soccer referees work to undermine and embarrass American teams-former FIFA referee
- A former FIFA certified referee reports, "the international referees license violence against American players which is also quite visceral because of the nature of international politics and the global public euphoria at ‘beating the Americans.'
- When Mexican fans recently chanted "Osama" while hosting the US team, they also treated American fans braving the scene to peltings with batteries....Americans are not viewed as fully moral equals to other nations in the minds of soccer's ruling authorities."...
- Neither current public comments of frustration or the reactions of American players sufficiently explains how international referees create and render the game of international "soccer." The referees do not specify any foul when they are called. So "offsides" or "tripping" are never named when they are called by a referee. The referees do not have to provide any clarification apart from where the kick shall proceed from as it re-enters play.
- earns the wrath of grudge-driven referees from a
- global community that largely views itself as unfairly aggrieved by such powers.
- Such attitudes are far more normative to the general practice of international soccer than Americans tend to imagine.
- Nonetheless, the collision of international politics and sportsmanship is powerful and it leaves far more professional wreckage on the field of play than the American public used to 'instant replay' and the general norms of fair play would expect.
- won't feel so bad about our general hegemony:
- Frankly, we don't need another feather in our already overstuffed cap. And considering soccer is the world's game - and most of the world is at odds with America at any given moment - I think it might be a nice idea for Uncle Sam, in an effort to promote world harmony, to lie down in South Africa."
- to undermine, embarrass, and hinder the American team.
- Moreover, the international referees license violence against American players which is also quite visceral because of the nature of international politics and the global public euphoria at ‘beating the Americans.'
- Soccer remains a valuable international tool for fostering dialogue. Despite this, Americans would do well to understand the widely disseminated contempt toward them that makes the subjective reign of soccer referees a wildly artistic endeavor designed to communicate the proper subjective political ends.
- More about this supposedly great game:
- April 19, 2007, NY Times, "Greece wrestles with fan violence," Fan and policeman murdered in normal riots and violence that accompany this great game.
- During the weekend, as play resumed, three matches were marred by violence. In one match,
- fans, players and officials rioted on the field.
The two-week shutdown followed the death on March 29 of a fan in a prearranged street battle in an eastern suburb of Athens. The fight involved about 500 fans of two first-division soccer rivals and neighbors...
- The death in Greece followed the killing of a policeman by fans in Catania, Sicily, in February and violence in European club games
- in Nancy, France, in November;
- in Lens, France, in March;
- and in Rome and Seville at the start of April."...
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