Soccerball Open Thread

Well it's tied up at the half, and I have no money on this game (Do they call it a game in soccer, or a match? A scrum? A rubber?), so I'll declare that I'm for France, but that's mostly because I've never been to Italy. Other opinions? Anybody up for re-roasting the why-Americans-don't-watch-Fußball chestnut? Any fans of the pro-commie documentary The Game of Their Lives, about the heroic North Korean team of Old '66? Operators are standing by.