With few exceptions, most of the libs that profess to like soccer have never come close to actually playing the game (or any sport for that matter). They just became a fan because they think it shows how “worldly” they are. Most of them would pass out in the first 10 minutes if they sat in the crowd for an actual league game over in Europe.
my youngest aged 8 has been accepted into a pro clubs acadamy and there were the usual useful fool parents there and one said “ parents have no clue about this sport, what we need is more breaks for the kids”
I kid you not .
Most who hate a sport have never played that sport and lets me honest, America on the whole have no clue about soccer , the rules, the history, the traditions or how a club was formed over a hundred years ago.
When the world cup was on there was a group of us and most had never played it but started to get into the sport as America did alright.
Once we got knocked out those in the group then said this sport is stupid etc.