Soccer does nothing for me...I played it in the 5th grade, because I had to.
I forbid my children from playing it and they both turned out...CONSERVATIVE, go figure!
The original was posted on here this morning. I did not read it. But I did watch the World Cup today.
I don’t hate soccer, it’s nice for lower grade school children to play. But it will never be a U.S, sport, like jai alai, lacrosse, or tackle cricket.
Soccer is a fine game to watch at its highest levels - Premiere League, Serie A, La Liga, World Cup, often the UEFA Champion's Cup. Below that, it can be unwatchable. MLS is barely watchable. Enjoy the game, but soccer will be America's sixth-favorite sport at best.
There is no way that I’ll sit for 90 minutes to see a final score of 1-0 . . . and that’s if they score. Still can’t figure out where the skill is in that game since they can’t control possession of the ball at all during a game . . . it’s possible to see 6 or more changes of possession in a minute during any game . . . If American football changed possession that many times in that short of a period, I’m sure we’d lose interest.
Then, you add that incessant droning of those outrageous horns blowing constantly, overpowering all attempts for the announcers to talk, and I think you have a good reason for me not to have the slightest interest in so-called world class soccer.
Who was it that said, “The reason so many people play soccer is so they don’t have to watch it”?
Soccer just seems to be something the kids play in school these days but walk away from it when they’re done with school.
There are no major league teams around the country like there are Baseball, Football, Hockey etc. I doubt many cities could afford to absorb the costs. They’ve been talking about a city based auto racing league for several years and that has gone nowhere despite its relatively low cost.
I hate soccer.
Incredibly boring. Nothing happens.
Those countries where soccer is more popular have high speed rail.
Soccer is freaking BORING!!! It’s taken until my 40’s to fully grasp the nuances of baseball and I must admit, it’s a pretty cool game.(OK, age and a 52-inch HD plasma TV helped.) The real reason, though, is that Americans are wealthy enough to put their kids in baseball, football, hockey, or any other spectator-friendly sport. As a society, we have our choice of sports to participate in and be spectators of rather than a lengthy, coma-inducing ‘sport’ like soccer. The Left hates the fact that America has more disposable income than the rest of the world. It shows in their love of ‘girly’ sports like soccer and their hatred of ‘manly’ sports like baseball, football and hockey.
Sorry to ramble but I loathe soccer. I would rather watch paint dry or clean out my spice rack than watch a soccer match.
It is so ugly. A well-designed NFL play, where each guy blocks and the runner hits the hole perfectly, is just a thing of beauty. There is no beauty in soccer.
I’m sure I’m “far right” by their standards, and I love soccer.
Rather watch that live than anything else.
Those stupid bee-sound horns are reason enough for me to hate soccer. That and having games end in ties.
The funny part is that in Europe, it is the other way around! Most left-wingers hate soccer. Soccer, and the soccer culture, is seen as a brutal, violent, and right-wing thing. And there is some truth to this: Most European soccer fans are working-class males. The athmosphere in the stadiums is very loud, sometimes very aggressive, very male. Nasty chants, sometimes nationalist, sometimes even racist, shaved heads…this is not an environment where some metrosexual urban liberal would feel at home. Or welcome.
Perhaps somebody ought to give them a couple of free tickets ;-) Or a copy of Bill Buford’s book:
Both games get called dull, so you think there'd be some solidarity. I won't disagree that soccer's the duller of the two, but baseball isn't going to make inroads against soccer since it doesn't quite suit today's craving for excitement either.
But sports do say a lot about paths of development.
The major team sports were developed in Britain and in British colonies like Canada and America. Soccer spread from Britain to the rest of the world (whatever more distant ancestors it may have had elsewhere).
Continental Europeans haven't been that good at inventing and packaging new sports. With soccer you can see why.
If you're Belgium or Montenegro or El Salvador or Uruguay or Cote d'Ivoire and your neighbors say they're going to crush you at (European) football, you learn to play the sport just to preserve your national self-respect. Once soccer gets established it's hard to unseat it as #1 national sport, because you have to beat the other guys in the next World Cup or Olympics.
The parts of the world where other sports have caught on have been those that are more independent and self-sufficient: island countries, former British colonies, ancient empires.
