Globalization and Soccer

After reading "From How Soccer Explains The World", I really was a little bit lost. I feel that the author made a lot of sense in his examples, and used good logic in his explanations of stories, but the comparison of the sport to globalization was very faint. It was very hard for me to see much support for his theory of the relation between soccer and globalization, and the excerpt seemed some what scattered. Foer talked about Football and Baseball and other sports combined for at least as much as he did soccer, if not more. I found the article interesting and entertaining, but not very persuasive. I felt that Foer was a little off topic if I go back and look at the title.