[DouglasKC]

When I see American kids playing soccer, I see kids who, if not for soccer, would be playing baseball. I see kids who, if not for soccer, would have become tommorrow's high school, college, and professional baseball players.
That's why I HATE soccer.

Soccer is pushed on kids in elementary school because it's a sport that anyone can play and not look too bad at. Anyone can run around a field and kick a ball with little or no practice. Baseball requires a variety of skills, such as running fast, hitting a ball with a bat, throwing accurately and catching. Educators hate baseball because it makes some kids look bad. The same is true of football.

Soccer doesn't hurt a kids self-esteem and that's why deep down many Americans resent soccer. It's associated with the namby pamby, feel good, style over substance liberalism.

[discostu]

No that's not it. Soccer is pushed in elementary school because it's cheap, all you need is the ball and some room to play and something to mark where the goals are, I remember once we used chairs as goal posts because the traffic cones had gone missing. Baseball is expensive, you need bats and at least 9 gloves to go with that ball, and you need the diamond. In elementary school they never let kids play tackle so that means you need flags, more equipment. Elementary school PE is all about cheap, and soccer is the single cheapest sport you can have a class of 30 kids play for 40 minutes.

[1rudeboy]

That's funny. I went to watch my neices play T-ball, and they weren't allowed to win the game either. Go figure.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Soccer is great.

Want a ghey sport? Nascar.

Buncha toothless hicks drinking PBR with their fat bottomed girlfriends wearing a tube top and electric blue eyeshadow watching a freaking car go in circles in the hot sun, and secretly hoping for things to "blow up real good!" with a crash.

Boy howdy!