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Adios, Paraguay, auf wiedersehen, adieu. The Albiroja had a magnificent run through the World Cup, but it came crashing to an end against France....
…Now is the mid-summer heat wave of our discontent…. Since sundown on Friday, there have been two unsavory matchups betweeen: 1) Anglophone...
Yesterday’s action in the World Cup featured two matches pitting the nations of the Iberian Peninsula (sorry Andorra and Gibraltar, but you don’t...
The knockout rounds of the World Cup are always dramatic. Yesterday’s menu of matches was especially dramatic. In the showdown between African...
Quoth The Rolling Stones: “You can’t always get what you want, but, sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.” Per the Zionist’s...
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.” This quote is most commonly associated with Percy Bysshe Shelley, but it just as easily could have...
Mixed emotions were the order of the day for the Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC) as it viewed the day’s only match, featuring Canada and...
“I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” Or so said a certain dramatic Scottish...
Day 14 left the Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC) in the dumps as the South Koreans opted not to start the greatest player the country’s...
The World Cup continued inexorably today as the last round of group play matches commenced. Group B was first on the hit parade as Canada versus...
Another day of desperation on the soccer pitch…. Monday’s late night intramural scrum of Arab sides saw Algeria best Jordan, 2-1. The Jordanians...
As is typically the case for the Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC), it will be politics first today, then onto the football. We will begin in...
Before re-capping Sunday’s action, a few preliminary matters first. The Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC) would be the first to state that...
The United States is a large and strange country. The country’s relationship with soccer is convoluted. There are those on the conservative wing...
Thus far, many of the teams frowned upon by the Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC) have, frankly, done okay in the tournament. Qatar, for...
Some may find watching a soccer match to be an exercise in pain as they watch very talented and conditioned athletes frustrate themselves repeatedly...
For all of the recent demonization of “settler colonialism” in recent years, no sportscasters or commentators or other know-it-alls seemed to...
In the words of the redoubtable Nelson Muntz of “The Simpsons:” “Ha ha.” To the highly-vaunted Spanish squad, the consensus favorite to win...
Tom Stoppard’s monumental play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” opens with the scene of the title characters flipping coins. No matter...
Once a upon a time, the megalomaniac strongman of the country formerly known as “Turkey” decreed that outsiders–particularly the...
Watching the World Cup opening ceremonies, the Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC) had another fever dream, to wit: Imagine a world where the...
It is likely that Portugal goes around with a chip on its shoulder vis-a-vis its larger, more populous Iberian Peninsula neighbor. For instance,...
In past editions of the Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC), Spain was consistently rated poorly. This assessment was based almost entirely on...
The much-reviled Group of Death will be revealed somewhere below. Dear Reader(s), it is a testament to the shock of October 7th and the evident...
(Dear Reader(s): If you read far enough in this lengthy post, you will find a bonus Bob Dylan quote.) Every World Cup features a first-round group...
“The Revolution will not be televised,” or so crooned Gil Scott Heron in 1971. This so-called “Revolution,” though, was not charging $2,500 a...
There is a notion stretching back to the ancient Greeks of the “Olympic Truce.” While the Olympic Games were proceeding, ongoing wars would...
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