The New York Times highlights the mixed allegiances among Europe's soccer fans:

All of Europe has been in the grip of what it calls football fever for the past two and a half weeks as the Continent’s best teams have squared off. The tournament has given audiences some displays of masterful soccer, but also more than a few intriguing subplots as the increasingly mobile populations around Europe and the world create an overlapping web of confused loyalties.

No matter which way I slice my cultural and ethnic roots--American, Korean, and heck, even Mexican--I have no native claim to the Euro Cup soccer tournament other than as a simple soccer fan.

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This is a great montage of a guy using his urban environment as a soccer field with food stands and delivery trucks among others as the open net. It looks suspiciously like a viral for some company or something, but it's an entertaining video nonetheless:

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