It's a World Cup year!

...but I really don't care about soccer.And I don't know anything about the existing good players/countries or whatever.But I still want to jump on the bandwagon and have a team to go for.I would like to select it semi-randomly.I will take all the team as they are ranked right now.
I will take the number of teams that are allowed to play in the world cup as a total and select the team that is ranked 18% of the way down.They will be my team, and I will cheer!...looking up list... FIFA RankingsNumber of teams allowed to play in world cup...
32? I could be wrong, but this is what I get from a quick Google search.So 18% of 32 is...
5.76So I cheer for the 6th ranked team which is....
GERMANY!!!Woot! Go Tanks!!Germany will destroy all of your other weaker teams!
They will have sex with your mothers and such!
Germany will put the ball through the rectangle more times than your team!
Germany will beat on you until your ass is as red as the cards given out for your weak diving!

Switch teams??! I cannot do that, a fan's heart is in his loyalty!I've been with Germany since the beginning!! (The beginning of this World Cup?...)Go Germans!
Make your plays so over-head heavy as to incorporate every possible situation that no one can ever make sense of them for any single specific use!
And run faster than the other guys!

Heh... actually, that part had no sports-related intentions at all. It's more a rip on how Germans generally do their designs (electrical, architectural, mechanical...).I work in industrial automation. Stereotypical German design is something I deal with every now and then. Generally fascinating and incredibly modular. But also generally over-designed and comes with a steep learning curve.

About the same, yes. Perhaps less-so in the "we can't ever put a decent team together" type of way. Perhaps more-so in the "we are mostly people from other countries anyway" sort of way. Soccer. Actually, I think it's more because we-just-do-whatever-the-US-does most the time anyway. It's easier that way. Think of having a big brother... on steroids... who has temper tantrums if he doesn't get his own way. ...and your room is attached to his. Yeah... sometimes it's just easier to go along with things Oh.. and the CFL (Canadian Football League) isn't really football either. Think of the little brother wanting to do what the big brother does... but putting his own ridiculous nuances (that don't make any sense at all) into it in order to deal with some sort of younger-sibling identity crisis thing