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Anyway, I am part of that even smaller minority of people who are completely uninterested in soccer, so I don't even play it [...] During the world cup I feel like an alien in my own country

Your fellow-countryman Umberto Eco has a great essay on "The World Cup and its pomps" (in English; don't ask me what the original Italian title was), which echoes your views exactly. The English translation is in the book "Faith In Fakes: Travels In Hyperreality", but again I wouldn't know where to get hold of the Italian original.

Peter