Viva Futbol

June 4th, 2010

“Ole Ole Ole Ole!”

You might not be familiar with these words, but in one week this chant will take over the world. The World Cup comes around once every four years, and has earned the title of the biggest sporting event in the world. If we learned anything from the last world cup, over 700 million people will put everything on hold and lose their voices cheering for the World Cup Final.

One of the disadvantages of being a soccer, or rather, futbol fan in the U.S. is that we don’t fully feel the impact of the FIFA World Cup because soccer is not the dominant sport in our country. That is starting to change as more and more people from the U.S. join in the World Cup craze. With this post, I am going to take you through 80 years of World Cup history so you’re ready to chant with the rest of them during the 2010 World Cup.