Posted on 08/08/2005 11:22:35 AM PDT by onja
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Why do most Americans hate soccer? It's not just that they don't like it. They are actively against it.
Soccer takes more skill and endurance than the other sports. In middle and high school you take a beating.(Elbowed, tripped, kicked, tackled- All done fairly or behind the ref's back and without body armor) There are many tactics decided by the players(unlike football and baseball). It's a sport many different people can do. Not just people who are huge or work out daily at the gym. Fast people, skilled people, strong people(fullbacks), tall people(goaly), small people, smart people. Footballers don't need much skill. Mainly strength. baseball doesn't need too much skill. Mainly the basics(throwing and catching) and strength. And, seriously, why does everyone think soccer players are gay, weak, etc? They aren't. In middle school half the team played another school sport. All of the highschoolers could easily have played school football or basketball. Out of the hundreds of players I've played I've never seen one who was even acted at all gay.
soccer is realy gay...
Because it's landscaping with defense.
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring game.
Good Lord, where do we start?
One reason is Europeans say we should like it. Some even get angry when we don't care about it.
Also it's gay and stupid.
Soccer players are girly men...la
Reminds me too much of hockey. Strange 'off sides' rule.
I agree soccer players are some of the best athletes in the world. But to answer your question. I dont think it is hated. I just think most people dont want to see people run back and forth and end up with a final score of 1-0.
Soccer is usually the domain of snooty liberals who don't like real sports..........
Have you all seen high school games? If so, I geuss I'm doomed.
and stupid.
LVM
Baseball takes more skill than you think. That's why you don't see 5 year old girls playing it all over suburbia, a la soccer.
1) Americans love scoring, and soccer doesn't offer enough of it. To the uninitiated, it just looks like a bunch of guys running around a field for 90 minutes and not accomplishing much.
2) The French play it. ;)
Soccer is a great sport to play, but I cannot understand why ANYONE would find it entertaining to watch. To my mind, American football is by far the greatest spectator sport. Baseball can be a trifle boring but I like to watch it anyway. Basketball is also great to watch. But watching soccer is just incredibly boring. Why it has such a huge following in Europe is beyond me.
And NASCAR just puts me to sleep...
Because it's landscaping with no sense.........
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