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For 30 days much of the planet will be glued to radios and TV’s as a festival of football unites diverse people from Algeria to Australia and from Uruguay to the United States.
Who should you cheer for?
But how do you choose who to cheer for when your own team isn’t playing or if they didn’t qualify (Scotland…)? What about the coolest flag design (probably Brazil)? Maybe the best holiday destination or food (got to be Italy)?
Many people will cheer for the underdog – Honduras, perhaps – or because the team contain players from their club team. Or perhaps you go for more political criteria, perhaps by not supporting countries with a bad human rights record?
How about supporting the team that gives the most aid to poor countries? Perhaps cheering on the poorest country in the World Cup? Or booing the country that spends the most on weapons?
Love football, hate poverty
WhoshouldIcheerfor.com is a site from the World Development Movement that ranks all the teams playing in the World Cup to find the most supportable on the basis of their efforts to eradicate poverty and social injustice. The results are based on a wide range of facts and figures, and might surprise you!
