Interesting article that as a subtopic explores why my country sucks at the world's most popular game.
How a Soccer Star Is Made
Insightful? I don't know. I do know that all but the best of journalists, being implicitly generalists, hop from one topic to another without ever really grasping the subtilties, but this was still intriguing to me.
Double post, but felt that making it a separate post would be less contextually jarring than tacking it on to the end of the last post.