[HossB86]

Soccer? What is Soccer? A “sport”?

Heh.

Rugby, Aussie Rules Football, Hurling... now THOSE are European sports. Soccer? Not so much. Lots of running around and falling down.

:D

Hoss

[Lilpug15]

I’ve played soccer all my life - absolutely love playing and watching; to me there’s no other sport as intelligent and strategy driven than soccer (again, that’s just my opinion) but there is something to be said for no time-outs full out running and sprinting for two 45 min. halves and seeing top notch players do amazing things with only their feet! :)

An acquired taste, but I love it!

I’m also female so I grew up playing and watching the first ever women’s World Cup and my idol was Mia Hamm... I got to meet Christine Lilly because she came to one of my practices (she lived 2 towns over from me in CT).

Def. two different games when comparing women and men though.

[wolf78]

Soccer? What is Soccer? A “sport”?

Of course it should have been football, soccer is just short for "association", as in association football (vs. gridiron football). ;-)

To each his own. Gridiron football fans will see association football as lots of running whereas association football fans will see gridiron football as lawn chess.