Football, baseball, basketball, world soccer - I can take them or leave them.

Real has always been a special case in world soccer.

To millions around the world soccer offers reassurance that their countries can take on the best.

This is a good and necessary insight into the friendly folks who run world soccer.

The ranking process of world soccer recently put the Americans fourth (they are now fifth).

These are the calibrations of world soccer, in which mere numbers are not the whole story.

And world soccer is shaping up as a Nike sport.

Yugoslavia has been one of the great underachievers in world soccer.

It appears that the United States is really getting serious about becoming a competitor in world soccer.

So what do they think about the 2-1 defeat to one of the minnows of world soccer?