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OPINION Page 6 n THE ASIAN REPORTER July 7, 2014 Volume 24 Number 13 July 7, 2014 ISSN: 1094-9453 The Asian Reporter is published on the first and third Monday each month. Please send all correspondence to: The Asian Reporter 922 N Killingsworth Street, Portland, OR 97217 Phone: (503) 283-4440, Fax: (503) 283-4445 News Department e-mail: news@asianreporter.com Advertising Department e-mail: ads@asianreporter.com General e-mail: info@asianreporter.com Website: www.asianreporter.com Please send reader feedback, Asian-related press releases, and community interest ideas/stories to the addresses listed above. Please include a contact phone number. Advertising information available upon request. Publisher Jaime Lim Contributing Editors Ronault L.S. Catalani (Polo), Jeff Wenger Correspondents Ian Blazina, Josephine Bridges, Pamela Ellgen, Maileen Hamto, Edward J. Han, A.P. 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Back issues of The Asian Reporter may be ordered by mail at the following rates: First copy: $1.50 Additional copies ordered at the same time: $1.00 each Send orders to: Asian Reporter Back Issues, 922 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR 97217-2220 The Asian Reporter welcomes reader response and participation. If you have a comment on a story we have printed, or have an Asian-related personal or community focus idea, please contact us. Please include a contact name, address, and phone number on all correspondence. Thank you. admit it — I’m an ignorant American. As hard hiney in front of a global audience as if to say, “Hi mom! Look at me! This is my victory twerk!” as it is to say, I’m afraid it’s true. As I said, I totally understand the allure of rooting Last month, for the first time in my life, I watched an entire match — start to finish — of the for your own country in a fútbol game, but with the World Cup. I watched the U.S. game against sports I’m accustomed to, that also means rooting against the other team. Portugal, which ended in That’s half the fun! a tie. With football, basket- Far be it for me to make ball, and baseball, I can fun of fútbol. I’m well root against the Dodgers, aware that it is the world’s Raiders, or the Heat, and most popular sport. Just find a lot of reasons why watching the passion of I’m rooting against them. the fans, it’s obvious Maybe a Dodger player people really do care about said something dispar- the game. This is a sport aging against someone on that demands respect, my team, or maybe a which I am doing by player my team really referring to the game South Korean soccer fans react after Belgium scored a goal wanted to draft ended up using the correct name of against South Korea during a Group H World Cup soccer going to another team on “fútbol” instead of match at a public viewing venue in Seoul, South Korea. draft night. Either way, “soccer,” which shows my (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) deep regard for the game since it took me five that’s a perfect reason for me to hate that other team. Let me correct that, because “hate” is a harsh minutes to figure out how to put the “ú” in fútbol. While watching the U.S. vs. Portugal match, word, and I’ve tried to teach my kids never to say there were aspects of the game I could definitely that word. So, instead, I’ll say, I vehemently despise that appreciate. I can see how strategy and effective passing are integral parts of the game. I also team with every fiber of my body. See? Much better. But with fútbol, it’s much harder. Yes, I can root understand how you can immerse yourself into rooting for your own country. That’s all well and for the U.S. team, but how do I root against Portugal? good. Looking through Wikipedia, I tried my best to But coming from a U.S. sports perspective, there find something about Portugal to root against, just are a few things I just don’t get. First of all, when a team scores, the goalscorer the slightest bit of acrimony I could use to help usually turns around, runs to his fellow teammates, bolster my fútbol-cheering credentials. Let’s see … they were a founding member of the and they … hug? A hug? Seriously? Having watched American football, my expectations are for the United Nations … that’s a good thing, I guess. I once player to turn around, face his teammates while one had a box of grapes go bad and I think they were of them rushes up, and headbutt them as a way of imported from Portugal … probably not their fault. saying, “Nice job, Bill!” As far as I’m concerned, a They have both a president and a prime minister — celebration isn’t a celebration without moderately a little confusing, but not really offensive. Hmm … Wait a minute! Port wine comes from Portugal! I severe head trauma. And before the well-placed headbutt, how can any like Cabernet! That’s it! Down with Portugal! That wasn’t easy. If the U.S. ever plays self-respecting fútbol player who just scored a goal not at least run around the field showboating, doing Switzerland in the World Cup, I think I’ll be in real a little mini-dance and maniacally gyrating his trouble. I Opinions expressed in this newspaper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of this publication. The Asian Reporter is published on the first & third Monday each month. News page advertising deadlines for our next issue are: July 21 to August 3 edition: Space reservations due: Wednesday, July 16 at 1:00pm Artwork due: Thursday, July 17 at 1:00pm
