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.
Because a bunch of euroweenie leftists keep telling us how much better soccer is than "American Sports."
Soccer players at my son's high school were referred to as "grass fairies".
I played soccer for the first time since I was a child last year in a league... and I will give without question the game requires more endurance than most other sports... I will also say the following:
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A SPORT PLAYED BY MORE CRY BABIES IN MY LIFE! Every incidental contact has players whining to the refs.
I will also say that of all the sports I have played in my adult life, the percentage of gay players is definately higher.
It is a game that requires strategy and skill, but no more than other sports.
That's my personal first hand synopsis of Soccer.
You are offsides if you are passed a ball when in front of the last defender.
Mine was more emphatic ;)
But, I was deloayed by co-workers befire I could hit the Post button.
FReeping at work -- dangerous stuff.
;)
I like it a little but it's a tad boring. I mean, it's not uncommon to see scores of 1 - 0 or 2 - 1. That's a long time between goals, hmmm?
I did enjoy indoor soccer much more when it was popular here in San Diego back in the 80's.
I don't hate it, but I can understand why Americans don't really want to watch all the running back and forth across the field with so few goals to show for it. To me, American football can be just as tedious. Start, stop, start, stop, start, stop, while inching back and forth down the field.
I lived in the South and not a single player was snooty or a liberal and most played another sport too.
A 3-2 soccer match has as much scoring as a 21-14 football game.
This is bad even for a nonsensical vanity rant. I dare you to (1) throw a curveball and (2) hit a curveball.
In the second period, Germany scored the first goal of the game: Germany 1, USA 0.
At that point, the announcers said, "Well, the Americans have quite a hole to climb out of now."
When the impact of that statement sunk in, I turned off the game and have not watched a minute of soccer to date.
The KeyWords are killing me... lmao
I played it for a while. It was fairly easy.
I understand and that is strange. Apply that to REAL football (forward pass) or a fast break in basketball.
Yea, it put Jimmy Johnson to sleep for a bit yesterday.
I don't think he woke up feeling refreshed, though.
LVM
'cause it's a goofy diversion fancied by girlie men?
Were they gay?
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