Now that you don’t care about soccer, here’s how you can recycle your World Cup gear

Before you ditch that impulse-buy Neymar jersey, peep this clip from the UCB comedy troupe.

The World Cup is a wrap, which means it’s that quadrennial time for most of us Americans to stop caring about soccer. But before you ditch your impulse-buy Neymar jersey, peep the above parody video from the UCB comedy troupe. “World Cup Recycling” is a hilarious take on repurposing all the trendy soccer items Americans copped during Cupmania — and probably won’t use again for the foreseeable future.

And who knows, maybe 2014 will finally be the World Cup that turns more Americans into everyday soccer fans: According to ESPN, U.S. viewership on the sports network doubled between 2006 and 2014.

Anyone want to kick the brazuca around?

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