As someone who didn't play soccer growing up, but had a dad who did and whose own kids played as well, I can say unquestionably that it is the sport in which the team that dominates loses more often than any other major sport I know of. Or, to put it more bluntly, the team that deserves to win doesn't. For some soccer-loving friends, this is perfectly okay. Indeed, they will argue that it's a healthy, conservative reminder of how justice does not always prevail in life.
Gary Schmitt, writing on the AEI blog ( The American ) is attempting to use the game of soccer - and by extension, it's massive popularity in the rest of the world - to pain the picture that America kicks ass because it doesn't do everything like the rest of the world.
What Schmitt has essentially done here is to make himself look like a blithering buffoon and conservatives as a whole look xenophobic to a sport that is actually far more popular in the US than he knows.
To conservatives, it's fun to knock on other countries. From the French, the British, Chinese, Asians, et al, they are the but of innumerable jokes from the right-wing groups within American society. Not because they or their culture are backwards or they are ill-educated, it's because it is always en vogue for conservative Republicans to make fun of or declare "bad" things and people that they don't understand.
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