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Hung Up x Impersonal Foul: World Cup Gossip

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Dec 03, 2022
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A bonus letter this week, about the World Cup!!! I’ve gone from “Church Girl” to Sports Girl. The USMNT plays this morning at 10 AM ET.
USMNT players Tim Ream, Kellyn Acosta, and Antonee Robinson celebrate winning their Group B match against Iran. (Photo: Stefan Matzke/Corbis via Getty Images)

Every four years I remember that I love watching soccer, or as well call it in the industry, “The Beautiful Game.” By “the industry” I mean my living room; by “the beautiful game,” I mean a sport with even more drama than the NBA — and that’s indeed bellissima to me!

My soccer knowledge is limited to the Amanda Bynes-Channing Tatum classic She’s The Man, the one time I cried on a plane watching Bend it Like Beckham, and Blake Lively original nose at soccer camp in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. A worldwide tournament? With hundreds of players and dozens of teams, and a game I’m still starting to understand? I’m: tuning in every day, and I’m also: Issa Rae at the Emmys that one time saying “…

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