Take your eye off the bouncing soccer ball and it’s easy to miss that one of the world’s most followed sporting events arrives here next weekend.
Anyone from the part of the Western hemisphere where water mostly circles the drain clockwise instead of counterclockwise knows what I’m talking about. Some early Copa America soccer tournament games scheduled for Century Link Field will have edgy fans in South American nations pacing their pueblos, haciendas and favelas.
This is the 100th anniversary of South America’s biggest soccer event and the United States is its first host from outside that continent.