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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.
I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.
If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.
If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
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