Beautifully done with the conversational format and the background information.
I would like to state that some other reviewer mentioned to not call association football "soccer". Well, the British coined the name soccer in short for "association football". This was done to differentiate between rugby football, or "rugger", and association football, or "soccer".
Since the British invented the game, I don't think they'll take offense to your ignorance of the beautiful game's history.
American football, rugby football and association football can all be called football. I'd defer to the inventors of the game when calling association football soccer, instead of calling Americans names based on deeper prejudices.
Soccer is a beautiful game, by the way, and Messi is the greatest to every play.
