Size Counts When It Comes To U.S. World Cup Cities

Olympic fatigue.

I'm still laughing over that one.

That was United States Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati's explanation/justification for excluding the USSF's hometown Chicago from its list of 18 potential host cities for the 2018 World Cup. Should the U.S. win the rights to host the games, it will have to trim that list to about a dozen, but there's a lot angst in the midwest and Windy City over the snub.

Read the full article at Starting Eleven.

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