Soccer and Globalization...

In the article "Soccer and Globalization"
(The Globalist 6/2002), the Globalist evaluates the 2002 World Cup in Japan/South Korea as a worldwide celebration of soccer and its fans .
Worldwide? No! This does not count for the USA, a country that does not pay as much attention to this sport as the rest of the world does.
The article describes this phenomenon, the U.S. sport isolationism as a result of a new kind and development of isolationism, which has already been expressed in its Anti-Kyoto attitude and various other actions that probably tried to direct globalization to a better future...