Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who doesn't care about FIFA.
Soccer isn't REALLY part of the USes tradition... It totally depends on how you grow up.
I can only say what it's like here but... the world cup is so amazing here.
I think here (in Germany) almost everyone cares. It's something you live and breath during the world cup. You feel the joy of a win. And the sorrow of a loss - and the heartattak of which a game can be. There's so much emotion that goes along with winning a game, and this year becoming world champions that it's HARD not to get pulled along and route for your country.
You should have seen the streets on sunday in the cities. It took us 2 whole hours to get home for something that normally takes 10 minutes, because the entire city was on huge party.
There is absoluty nothing - I am mean this literally, because there is NOTHING out there that brings Germans more together than soccer and winning the world cup. NOTHING. It is also the only time we proudly hiss our Germany flags and the entire nation explodes in a sea of black red and gold.
I'm also watching the German Team arriving in Berlin right now - and holy cow, there must be like 200.000 people there right now.