Soccer and Globalization

I can't believe I beat MSR to this article, which points out the global reach of soccer in this, most convincing manner:

During the 2002 World Cup, the English midfielder David Beckham, famed bender of the ball, styled his hair in a mohawk. Almost instantly, Japanese adolescents appeared with tread marks on their shorn heads; professional women, according to the Japanese newsmagazine Shukan Jitsuwa, even trimmed their pubic hair in homage.

As MSR is far more qualified to discuss this issue (globalization, that is, not the intimate grooming habits of female Japanese lawyers), I'll be satisfied just pointing this article out.
- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 7:36 PM