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Ethan Epstein of True/Slant is in a huff about claims that soccer is the most popular sport in the world:

“A cursory glance at an an atlas will call to mind numerous nations where soccer is not the most popular sport: in Canada, hockey reigns supreme. In Australia, its Australian Rules Football – a game decidedly different than soccer. In Finland, it’s pesäpallo, a form of Finnish baseball. (Once, while visiting the lovely city of Tempere, Finland, a local attempted to explain the rules to me — my head still reels.) Soccer is the most popular sport through much of Western Europe and South America. But the rest of the world? Not a chance.”

He neglects to mention a thing about Africa, where the ongoing World Cup is staged. Whether it’s an accidental omission or one he conveniently left out because his neat little theory would be shot to hell is anyone’s guess.