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***except if your opinion is that soccer is a stupid sport. If that is all you have to say then just keep it to yourself.
My lips are sealed.
Soccer is a pretty stupid sport.
Soccer may not be a stupid sport, but it’s not an American sport, either.
There are too many other sports for our yooots to get into instead of it.
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Landon Donovan has played for Bayer 04 Leverkusen, but they dissed him in line with the article. But last year Bayern Munich was working very hard to grab him for at least a few months, so respect may be coming.
We simply will not have respect in soccer until we have world-class players. Europe isn’t so awed by big contracts and a flashy lifestyle, they care what you do on the field. And they’ll drop you like a hot potato if you lose it, just ask Ollie Kahn. He was once one of the greatest goalies and the German team captain, a national hero, but he lost it and they only let him play the third-place game in 2006.
Pardon me, but is it even possible for a single player to dominate a soccer game on a consistent enough basis to be compared to "Jackie Robinson"? The game is so subtle that it isn't obvious to me who the really good players are without the help of the analysts. So it comes down to opinions, and they can be manipulated for good or ill.
LOL. *Yawn*
It’s not okay for the Euroweenies to openly hate Jews but it is fashionable for them to hate Americans.
No need to worry about them, though, the Muslims will bring them to heel in 5-20 years.
Article is a load of bunk. Frankly I suspect journalistic trolling.
All football fans care about is winning. Just take a look at any Premiership side....there are people from all over the world. The reason the big European sides aren’t all over the USA buying up quality players is because there aren’t any good enough to compete, with the odd exception (we have a couple of US goalies who are well respected.)
Soccer’s an O.K. sport. Both my kids played it. But I never played it, I never watched anyone buy my kids play it and I don’t understand the finer points of play.
Also I got thrown off the sidelines once for helping coach the kids. It was the first year that the kids had to deal with the offsides rule. I quickly figured out something that I was later told was an “offside trap” - if some kid is hanging around the goal, then just have one of the defenders move up past him before someone kicks him the ball and he’s offside and the ball goes over. I yelled out to one of the defenders “Move up, move up past that kid!”. He did, they kicked him the ball, the ref (from Germany, it turned out) blew the whistle. This happened 3 times. The opposing coach, a dad like me, asked the ref what was going on. The ref told him, he glared at me, and then invoked a rule that said that only the coach could coach. Our coach apologetically said I had to go sit with the rest of the parents. I returned to the parents and got a hero’s welcome.
All I ever needed to know about soccer I learned in high school gym class. Soccer-team starter stood with the ball between his ankles awaiting my defensive charge. He was going to perform some kind of soccer trickery, apparently. I barrelled in and swiped the ball and both his feet out from under him with my iron shin. The ball went to a teammate, and I dutifully followed the play. Soccer kid limped alongside, saying, “Hey, you can’t do that!” Guess I did, though.