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To: Hythloday

Those who say soccer sucks do so because they are unfamiliar with the game. Soccer is a game of true beauty.

Take football, for example. It is highly scripted by a multitude of coaches and players actually play for 20 seconds and then huddle to get the scripted play from the coach. Soccer, on the other hand, is a players game, with players devising strategy and making plays.

Soccer is really an awesome game once you understand it.


11 posted on 03/19/2009 6:46:10 AM PDT by Obadiah (Party - my house - on December 22, 2012!)
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To: Obadiah
Soccer, on the other hand, is a players game, with players devising strategy and making plays.

IOW, sloooooooooow hockey played on grass.

19 posted on 03/19/2009 6:53:13 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court house.....................America's Axis of Evil!)
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To: Obadiah
Soccer is really an awesome game once you understand it.

I understand that paint dries and grass grows, but watching it happen is really boring.

20 posted on 03/19/2009 6:55:03 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: Obadiah
Your comments about football are legitimate. I once read somewhere that an average three-hour NFL game actually only has about 11-13 minutes of live action.

Soccer isn't exactly an "awesome game," though -- for different reasons. Its lack of "scripting" may have a lot to do with why it is so dull in many ways. It's worth noting (at least in my experience) that an inordinate number of goals in soccer are scored under "scripted" conditions (corner kicks, free kicks, penalty kicks, etc.).

Soccer has some serious flaws that really limit its appeal here in the U.S.

22 posted on 03/19/2009 6:57:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: Obadiah

“Soccer, on the other hand, is a players game, with players devising strategy and making plays.”

No, soccer is a euro-socialist sport that provides great exercise for US preschoolers, but that’s about is. My favorite soccer match, though, is Monty Python’s epic battle between the German and Greek philosophers.


26 posted on 03/19/2009 7:00:18 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: Obadiah

no matter how you try to sell it, it’s still BORING.


31 posted on 03/19/2009 7:13:59 AM PDT by bfree (Obamie the Commie-- FBO)
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To: Obadiah
Those who say soccer sucks do so because they are unfamiliar with the game.

I played for years, then i found lacrosse. SOCCER SUCKS.

34 posted on 03/19/2009 7:18:55 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (Want to make a conservative angry? Lie to him. Want to make a liberal angry? Tell him the truth)
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To: Obadiah

“Soccer is really an awesome game once you understand it.”

No everybody understands it. People are either young enough to have played it or old enough that your kids played it. The lack of scripting is what makes it boring.


41 posted on 03/19/2009 9:23:49 AM PDT by Varda
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