Soccer and Globalization

In the article “How Football Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization," Franklin Foer tries to make the argument that soccer is somehow linked to globalization. I didn't really get where he was headed with this argument from get-go. Just because soccer is a considered the world's favorite sport to play and watch, that doesn't make it a monopoly. I don't like how he tried to incorporate other sports into his paper to establish any type of argument. Parents that force their kids to play sports enjoy watching them play soccer because there is less contact. There is no way the solid colored soccer jerseys have anything to do with globalization because this sport isn't even close to a worldwide takeover.