True world sport. Spot on.
Unexpected benefit of international football: it greatly increases small children's knowledge of geography. Most of the countries my 6 yo knows about, he knows from their football teams. For him at least, Modric & Co literally put Croatia on the map.
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What premier league club does he support?
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Just his biased view of the world.
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It improves surname pronunciation too :-) I bet he can pronounce Ibrahimović
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Would any Irishman actually know the geography of Serbia/Slovenia/Slovakia without the WC qualifiers? Not a chance.
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I can attest to this. Playing FIFA on Nintendo 64 growing up I learned the most obscure countries like Faroe Islands or small towns in Europe like Rennes or Bremen. Great positive externality!
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Totally agree. I've long found I can meet people from little-known countries and instantly strike up a rapport by listing off every footballer I've heard of from that nation.
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No cheating: Morocco. Go!
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they are building a geographical relational database, since a lot of clubs' names also include the city they are based in :)
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When he was younger, he didn't distinguish, and he'd draw pictures of imaginary battles between e.g. Barcelona and China.
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