“Sorry Joe, shot won.”
That was Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s jocular shot astatine U.S. President Joe Biden connected Saturday night, aft the Netherlands dumped America retired of the World Cup successful Qatar.
Rutte was pulling Biden’s limb aft the U.S. person filmed a pre-match clip connected Twitter, saying, “It’s called soccer. Go U.S.A. You guys are gonna bash it.”
Despite Biden’s rallying cry, the U.S. slumped to a 3-1 defeat, with the Netherlands progressing successful the tourney to look Argentina successful the quarterfinals.
Never caput the commercialized subsidies, whether to telephone it “football” oregon “soccer” has stoked transatlantic divisions for decades — adjacent though the connection shot really originated successful 19th-century England.
Unfortunately for Biden, astatine this constituent “soccer” has a snowball’s accidental successful Qatar of catching connected astir the world.
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