"I have to confess I am part of the 'problem' here. If Mexico and the United States go to war again, I'll be rooting for the Yanks, but having lived in Mexico until the age of 15, I still have a hard time not rooting for Mexico when the two countries play, given that my boyhood soccer loyalties are all rooted in that country and its league. It is very hard--a bit sketchy even--to alter your sports loyalties later in life, as any transplanted Bostonian or Chicagoan in L.A. will tell you."
In anticipation of today's United States-Mexico match, Andrés Martinez in the Los Angeles Times ponders the current state of North American futbol.
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