Soccer (futbol, real "association football") is the stupidest most exciting of human sports since at least the time of the mighty Aztecs (Mexica tribe) of what is now Mexico, when they played soccer with a hard rubber ball, combining it with an elevated hoop for a kind of early basketball called Mesoamerican ballgame, allegedly sometimes playing to the death. How did Buddhists, particularly the peace-loving Bhutanese Himalayan variety, get caught up and consumed in this somewhat violent (war-preparatory) sport? Khyentse Norbu tries to explain in his award-winning 1999 film The Cup.
Buddhism arrived in California and Mexico before Spain brought Catholicism and England brought Christianity: An Inglorious Columbus(Edward P. Vining, 1885)
(KTLA 5) June 11, 2026: World Cup fever took over Liberty Park Thursday night in Los Angeles' Koreatown, where soccer fans came out in force to watch a match between South Korea and Czechia. KTLA’s Chris Wolfe reports.
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