ABS has the stone cold lock on the next World Cup Soccer Championship Winner.

Italian Soccer Coach Roberto Mancini

ABS has the stone cold lock on the next World Cup Soccer Championship Winner.

It will be Italy.

Ok, ABS, how do you know this? You are a fan of The PGA Golf Tour and American Football and you have never even watched soccer. Why are you watching it now and why are you picking Italy to win the World Cup?

Thanks you for the question pretend interlocutor.

ABS is watching the European Soccer * Championship because it is the sport for old men to watch. ABS is an old man and when he is watching soccer, it is so endless and boring that he often falls asleep and if he dozes off in the 23rd minute and does not wake-up until the 72th minute the chances are quite high that the score will be Nil-Nil.

ABS happened to be watching Italy the other day and so he, naturally, chose to root for Italy because that is where Rome is and Rome is the Capitol for all Catholics worldwide as the first Pope taught: 1st Peter 2: 9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 

Ok, ABS, I guess I can see your point about your Capitol being Rome because every nation does have a Capitol why do you think Italy will win the World Cup?

Thanks for the question pretend interlocutor. Italy will win The World Cup because Rome is timeless in a sense.

For heaven's sake, the Coach of The Italian Team Mancini is so timeless that were he alive back in the day he could have been a stand in for Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita:

Mancini also looks like a guy whose relatives prolly own an Italian Restaurant in the North End of Boston. 

* Soccer is better than The PGA Golf Tour which still has Vern Lundquist doing commentary. 

Vern has been doing commentary on golf since TV used to broadcast the U.S. Open Golf Championship in black and white.

Sometimes when he is speaking one can hear the faint sound of fizzling freeps in the background as poor ol' Vern, rolling up onto one cheek in his chair in the broadcast booth, tries to silently fire a bean bullet but at his advanced aged his anal leakage can no longer be silenced and it is becoming more noticeable and the listener is aware that Ol' Vern is slowly filling up his Depends.