He thinks soccer fans are cultured.
Yeah, thats why they throw toilets from the stands and kill people in Brazil.
The article made the exact opposite point. He said that soccer is a working class sport in the rest of the world, but these poseur American fans (with their same "study abroad stories") think it makes them classy and cultured.
He's making fun of the hipster wanna be euroweenie douches you'll find in Boston and NYC and Ivy League bars.
I know a bunch of these goofballs. The type that pronounce Barcelona "Barthelona" because they've been there and know the secret pronunciation.