[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 101 (Thursday, June 26, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4116-S4117]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            WORLD CUP SOCCER

  Mr. RUBIO. There is another issue that deserves our attention. By the 
way, on the subject of soccer, since I am on it, I will confess I am 
not an expert on soccer, nor have I, frankly, historically been an 
enormous fan. To me football means you wear a helmet and some shoulder 
pads and you run into

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each other pretty hard. But I have grown in admiration of the game 
given the following it has internationally and given the performance of 
our team, and I wish to congratulate Team USA. Despite losing today's 
game, they have achieved the honor of advancing into the round of 16 in 
the World Cup as we all watched and are excited about those prospects 
and are encouraged about the future of U.S. soccer and our prospects in 
the world cup.
  So congratulations to them, to their families and to all fans of U.S. 
soccer all over the world and here in Washington cheering them on. If 
there is one thing that brought us together here this week, it is that, 
and we are grateful for it.

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