American exceptionalism at the World Cup: Why many soccer fans in the US will be cheering on another team (probably Mexico)
- Written by John M Sloop, Professor of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University
Split soccer loyalties?Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty ImagesSoccer fans will turn their eyes to Qatar starting Nov. 20, 2020, as the World Cup gets underway. But in the U.S., the question of which team will be cheered on from afar isn’t entirely straightforward.
You see, one of the anomalies of being a “typical” soccer fan in the...