Sorry, just can't get into soccer

Yeah, I know the USA is playing Germany in the World Cup as I write this. I'll root for the US, but my interest level is low. Very low. It's an effed up game. How can you tell? The clock runs backwards. Instead of starting with how much time there is to play and counting down to zero, so you always know how much time is left, in soccer the clock starts at zero and counts off how long they've been playing. Why would you do that? Because they have no damn idea how long they're going to play. Stoppage time, injury time, added time, whatever else the ref decides to throw in, apparently. It's effed up.