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Conservative pundit Ann Coulter believes that the country’s growing interest in soccer — fueled by Team USA’s success in the 2014 World Cup — is a sure sign of America’s ‘moral decay.’

In a syndicated column published on the same day that the U.S. team qualified for the last 18 of the tournament in Brazil, Coulter shared her musings on why the sport’s growing popularity sums up everything that is wrong with modern America.

Coulter starts by claiming that she had held off from writing about the game so as ‘not to offend anyone,’ before giving a nine point explanation of how ‘any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation’s moral decay.’

‘Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in,’ she writes. ‘That’s when we’re supposed to go wild. I’m already asleep.’

[Coulter’s other reasons for hating soccer include: It’s foreign. In fact, that’s the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not “catching on” at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it. Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it’s European. …]

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