Jamie Mottram's Sports Blog - www.misterirrelevant.com

The World Cup begins Friday and ESPN/ABC are showing every single game of the tournament, so it's about time you brush up on your soccer. To that end, there's no better place to do it than at WorldCupBlog.org, where the guys are already in Germany blogging away on all 32 teams (Ecuador leads the way with 489 posts) and will be there for the duration of the tournament with news, commentary and, most importantly, fan taken and submitted photos and video.

Here's a small yet highly recommended sampling of their work to date...

· Guide to USA player nicknames

· Secret video of Italians practicing the flop

· English fans' bizarre attempt to "Heal Rooney"

· 6'7" UK striker Peter Crouch's "robot dance" celebrations

· Crouch singing 'Here Comes the Hotstepper' and USA midfielder Clint Dempsey's rap video

· The Oliver Kahn Overpass near the Munich Airport

I never thought I'd have this much fun with anything soccer-related. Kudos to the fellas at WCBlog, and drop in and say hey now and throughout the Tournament. They're sure to enjoy hearing from us filthy Americans while over there in the middle of Euroland.

More to come from them, I'm sure.

Update: AOL Sports turned this stuff into a big honkin' feature. Bravo to the big media site that learned to stop worrying and love the blog.

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• #2 Comment from monponsett
  6/8/06 9:03 AM | Permalink

  We should have held off on the Marshall Plan until Europe agreed to call their sport "soccer."
• #1 Comment from rebelk9
  6/6/06 4:18 PM | Permalink

  Oliver is so old he was in the Hitler Youth