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Message: [QUOTE="meyers7, post: 2457457, member: 343"] Almost all of those have nothing to do with the book, EXCEPT [I] Some people said, "Oh okay, well black people can't play soccer well." [B]But Brazil typically has a lot of black players or with at least part African descent, i.e. Pele, and they go out and win World Cups. [/B][/I] A pretty good percentage the black people who do go out and play soccer well have descended from West Africa as opposed to East Africa (in the Americas due heavily to the slave trade). Hence when you brought up the East/West thing, I thought you might be interested in the book. Though again, it's not specifically about soccer. You seem to have a theory about East/West as opposed to North/South. This is just some information that might pertain to your theory if you were interested. It's not really an open mind if you have pooh-poohed it without even taking a look at it. When I first saw the book, I kinda thought, hmmm now what's this about? But as I read it, it was pretty well thought out. But like I said, just offering you up some information. Take it or leave it. As an aside, S. Korea's 2002 run was pretty suspect from a referring involvement point of view. And yes USA's 1930 run was mostly due to lack of European teams. So yea, neither team has done much. [/QUOTE]