Soccer and Globalization

In the article "From How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization," Franklin Foer tries to relate soccer to globalization and proposes the idea that soccer can help xplain some "global dynamics." I feel like this arguement was kind of a stretch and somewhat unsuccessful. It was kind of hard for me to follow how he was relating things to globalization. He gives the example that soccer is pretty big in the whole world and other sports haven't quite gotten up to the level that soccer has globally. By this I think he was saying how much influence it can have on people. In this section, he shares the quote from the bills quarterback and how he said that football is a more democratic sport and soccer is a European socialist sport. I can somewhat see what he is saying by this. I don't think he did an excellent job proving his point, but he gave one or two decent examples.