Sports...sorta

There are few things that bother me more in the world than people who are fake in some way shape or form. My current pet peeve with fake-ness stems from the World Cup.

At 22 years old, I still play high level competitive women's soccer in the summer. Soccer is my number one sport and I'm good at it. I enjoy watching the World Cup on TV, even though I don't really have a specific team I want to cheer for per say. I would really have enjoyed seeing an African team win this year because it's in Africa, but alas, it was not meant to be. I was thrilled to see some of the heavy weights sent home early on though - mainly France and Italy because they thought it would be a walk and were acting a little to diva-esque.

In short - I like soccer, but have no patience for the theatrics it sometimes brings out in it's players. If you didn't get hit, get off your ass and keep going.

But that's not the point of this post.

The point of this post is my annoyance at people (girls in particular) who have decided they understand soccer. They clog my facebook newsfeed with meaningless posts about games and players. These are girls who I know for a fact who are completely un-athletic and have had zero interest in sports...until now. Suddenly, they have realized that for the duration of the World Cup, they can fake an interest and enthusiasm for certain countries to gain attention from the opposite sex. They talk about how hot players are - not about skills. They make stupid long rambling posts about nothing in particular with spelling and grammatical mistakes on top of the usual overuse of exclamation points.

A girl that I know from university is actively researching stats in an attempt to impress a guy she is madly in love with and who has already told her he has no serious interest in her past friendship.

Here's the thing - taking an interest in something your boyfriend enjoys is one thing. It's even one thing to take an interest in something so you can meet guys. I get that. However - these girls? They take it too far.

Those of us girls who have a legitimate interest in the sport are then looked upon as posers as well because of the bad rep these fake-tastic girls are tittering and giggling and going on and on about Christiano Ronaldo - which is usually the only name they know anyway. Did you even understand why that pass up the middle was a bad play? Didn't think so. Now get out.

It really boils down to this - don't fake it. We all know you're faking it. So stop. This goes for anything else you might fake as well. Because there are some females in the world with a legitimate interest in the sport and we can't hear the tv over your squeals. Go to a Justin Bieber concert where that sort of nonsense is tolerated.