Soccer plays many roles in society, enough to fill entire journals and far too many to outline in just one blog, but I feel that an underrepresented concept is that soccer is fun. Yes, its true that, as Marcos Natali put it, soccer “is both an opium and a revolution,” but on a more basic level, there is perhaps no other activity with such a wide appeal to people. Be they boys playing on the beach or fans at the monolithic Bombonera, everyone enjoys themselves with a soccer game. There are many reasons that soccer is significant; soccer creates nationalism, social interaction, and diversion for the masses, but so do many other activities; the reason that soccer is exceptional is that nearly everyone has a good time playing it or watching it be played. The sociological
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