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I wasn’t planning on watching the World Cup this year, given the wokester garbage coming out of one of the FIFA officials, but well, I can’t keep my eyes off of it.

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If you haven’t already heard, Japan routed mighty Germany in its first game of the match, 2-1, which was a huge victory and came as a surprise to everyone.

Yes, Japan has always had a decent national soccer team, but Germany is in the giants’ league, nobody expected Japan to do that. Surprises like this make watching the matches fun.

But not everyone likes this stuff, and yeah, the point scoring tends to be low — which is why Spain’s 7-0 victory over powerful Costa Rica, also in Group E, along with Germany and Japan, got a lot of attention, too.