Put a ball on the grass in front of two men, one from South Africa, the other from Mexico, and it won’t matter what language they speak, because they’ll understand each other just fine. That’s because soccer is spoken fluently in nearly every country on the planet. On Friday, the 2010 World Cup begins, and the 32 competing teams will be the talk of the town/ville/ciudad/stadt. And that’s a good thing, because focusing on soccer for next four weeks is what we need right now.