Tuesday's Column: Qualifiers Turn SoCal into a United State
As an English-born, naturalized Canadian citizen who lives in the U.S., nations don't mean that much to me.
Except when it comes to soccer.
Because in soccer different nationalities, cultures and races serve to remind me not how different people are, but how much many share an obsessive interest regardless of where they are from in a ball rolling around a pitch chased by 22 sweaty people.
And there are few places like Southern California where it's possible to find so many folks from different nations all watching soccer in a relatively small geographic area.
Clarification: The Iranian election occurs two days - June 12 - after the second Iran World Cup qualifier this month.
About 100 Percent Soccer
Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
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