World Cup fever has managed to penetrate the United States to a surprising degree, given that we’re normally a nation that grows up playing youth-league soccer and then pays zero attention to the sport for the rest of our lives. But there are still millions of Americans who could use a primer in the sport the rest of the world calls football, and in particular the team we’ll be facing in Sunday’s big match, Portugal. Did you know that their star player is probably the most famous athlete in the world? And that he’s gorgeous? Maybe not!

Lucky for all of us ugly Americans, Benedict Cumberbatch—America’s European boyfriend—is here to explain soccer to us, just in time for Sunday’s game. He’s narrating the documentary Cristiano Ronaldo: The World at His Feet, available now to rent on Vimeo. It explains not just Ronaldo’s career as the highest-paid soccer player in the world, but the global appeal of the sport in general. As you can see in the trailer above, when Cumberbatch talks about how easy it is to just pick up a “football” and play, it’s like two weeks of Olympics inspirational programming captured by a single plummy British accent.

Team U.S.A. faces off against Team Portugal at six P.M. E.S.T. on Sunday night, and surely you’ve got an hour between now and then to bone up on Ronaldo so that you can then start hating his guts. Go Team U.S.A., and here’s one last bit of advice to you from Cumberbatch: