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Well that’s my question, is supporting a national football team in the same category as supporting the country itself?
I think only you can decide that. But isn’t the US National Anthem played? Doesn’t the flag get displayed? Would you play in the US team if you were a professional football player knowing that you are representing the nation?
Note that we aren’t going to abide by some religious dogma. I would be okay with cheering Jesse Owens at the Olympics, for example (not for the US, but for him). But the fact that the US is hosting the games does change the moral calculus a bit.
Yeah I mean the whole World Cup is a pretty hideous and outdated display of nationalism. But I also really enjoy sports in the case of football how it does still genuinely reflect working class culture despite being horribly commercialized.