Soccer is one of the most played sports internationally and the most followed. If one looks every four years at the world cup they will see that. In particular, soccer is one of the most interesting because it is one of the few sports that has an international league. Back to the world cup as an example, this tournament in my mind puts the world series to shame because the world series is in know way a "world" tournament and even though baseball is played around the world this particular tournament does not portray the best players internationally. But to get back on point in this story by Emily Benammar it is interesting to see the different international medias and their take on Manchester United's defeat at the hands of Manchester City back on October 24 of 2011. Being that both of those teams are located out of Great Britain it is not surprising to see the amount of coverage that this game got in that country. Not just one newspaper covered it but as you would expect their were multiple as opposed to countries like Argentina and Australia who may have had more coverage but the content was vague when compared to the British newspapers. At least in this short collaboration of articles, the author paraphrased those countries as giving a generalization of what happened. Spain and Italy with there heavy involvement with soccer were more descriptive like Britain. I also thought in this case there was a lack of bias I felt because countries with players in the game from their country they did not go out of their way to promote them. But other countries gave cudos to such players by indicating where players came from like in Australia's Herald Sun when they said this "The 21-year-old Italian fired City ahead in the 22nd minute and added a second on the hour mark before Argentine striker Sergio Aguero netted a third in the 69th minute." In general I think that this article is a good example of how one can obtain information about soccer any which way they want and that there are no international barriers.
~Max Householder
