American hopes to charm Brits in soccer series `Ted Lasso`
(WorldNews Sport)

NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Sudeikis was a huge sports fan growing up in Kansas, especially basketball. Not so much that game where you kick a ball into a goal. “The beautiful game? I didn`t get it a couple of years ago. I thought, ‘Well, good for them for getting that nickname.` But now I get it,” he says. “While I have a very shallow understanding of soccer, I have a deep appreciation for it.” Sudeikis artfully mines his ignorance of the sport in the new Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso,” in which he plays an American football coach who takes charge of an elite British soccer team despite having little knowledge of the game they also call football.- Advertisement - “You could fill two internets with...