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In America, we play football with our hands and we call the what the rest of the world calls football soccer, which people actually play with their feet.

I don't know if the 2006 World Cup is just plain boring (think Brazil, so far) or America's ABC and ESPN2 make it look boring. I am no soccer fan myself and not even every four years. Basically the commentators fail to generate any excitement at all. Whenever I listen to their comments, I will think of people running SQL statements in the background, SELECT nbr_goals from goal_table WHERE player='someplayer';. The comments are laden with statistics but totally lacks excitement. I remember in the old days when television was uncommon, people actually had to listen to radio to know the match, back then the commentators are really entertainers in their own rights. Not so for soccer here.

If you don't find the play exciting then at least you should find the hairstyle more exciting. In today's NYT's Styles section, Eric Wilson did an excellent job dissecting the players' sytle, from hair to tattoo. The major disappointment perhaps is Beckham, the most valuable/expensive player who brought metrosexual to the rest of us. The once advanced practitioner of funny hairstyle is no longer in the hair game, at least not on the first game.

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