Angoooooaaaaala vs. Mexico

is an electrifying game. Our neighbors are struggling for possession! The Angolans are attacking relentlessly: time will tell however, if they are able to keep up the pace fo this attack. And so far, they have not been able to capitalize. Finally Mexico is making aa breakway, but it is quickly borken up. I am cheering for Mexico, but damn!!!! The Angolans are on fire!!!

As you can tell, I have a soft spot for the African teams. Every match to me is about the possible overturning of an implicit power imbalance, -- the favorites are always representatives of the bourgeoisie, and the underdogs their class adversaries/opponents.

I know it's naive and silly to see things this way, World Cup as class struggle, but it do!

Rationalists will say that Brazil is the favorite and is a Latin American, so-called developling I mean developing country and that most players in the Cup are coddled overpaid, undereducated pretty boys with good stamina, but I'm seeing allegory, not realism.