How Soccer Explains The World Chunk #1

How Soccer Explains The World, by Franklin Foer discusses the ways in which globalization has produce both cultural and economic failures. Foer does this with his use of soccer as a metaphor to show how the game explains this globalization. Foer when he was young, was horrible at soccer and because he couldn't play; decided to thoroughly study the game and soon became an expert in all aspects of the game. This is why he's able to explain why soccer explains the world and does this in his first chunk with the gangs created in what used to be Yugoslavia. He explains that fans of rival teams would create games and attack each other and even threaten opposing teams players. This was also mainly do to the different forms of governments being fought over by the Serbs who were against communism. Foer uses anecdotes of a once powerful instigator and notorious criminal of crimes committed by rival gangs while also producing an interview with those, who once were a part of these games. Thus Foer's first chunk explains different gangs, violence, and sects produce from globilizations failures.