[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11121]
[From the U.S. 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 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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