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Is Soccer in the United States Really Growing?
US Soccer Players ^
| Charles Boehm
| February 26
Posted on 03/01/2014 3:53:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I don’t see increased interest in Soccer as a positive for the United States.
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posted on
03/01/2014 3:58:00 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
To: nickcarraway
Nothing wrong with soccer. It is a good sport. However, there are many other competing team sports. So, professional soccer is competing with all them for fans, The NASL created a lot interest in the 70/80s when they recruited the top international players. I suppose they would have to do that again to “kick-start” professional soccer again in the US.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:02:30 PM PST
by
3Fingas
(Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
To: 3Fingas
One of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen (it’s on Netflix), is called “Once In a Lifetime” the story of the New York Cosmos.
The problem with the NASL was that other teams couldn’t keep up with the Cosmos, and eventually it all fell apart.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:04:55 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: nickcarraway
My kids don’t play soccer anymore but it’s a good sport. Unfortunately, the people who play it don’t necessarily want to pay to watch it. They’d rather play.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:06:25 PM PST
by
perez24
(Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
To: nickcarraway
I thought the importing of Pele back around 1975 was to be the spark that ignited soccer here in the U.S.?
Soccer has had over 35 years to make it's appearance but has failed on the professional level. Football and baseball will forever take precedence over the sport of nil vs. nil after two full halfs.............
To: nickcarraway
Youth soccer is being built primarily on a club rather than a school-based system, which is a big plus for the players. More subjectively, I find the culture of soccer here in the DC area to be attractive. Football and basketball have gone thug at the professional level, and the bad influence creeps down the chain. I don’t have a particularly broad field of vision, but I find youth soccer (again because it’s club based) to be dominated by parents (in contrast to school based sports), and standards of deportment are fairly high.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:12:28 PM PST
by
sphinx
To: perez24
Played from grade school to college, loved playing, hate watching!
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:14:18 PM PST
by
Empireoftheatom48
(God help the Republic but will he?)
To: nickcarraway
Is America becoming more pussified?
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:15:30 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: nickcarraway
Well, the feminazis are very close to destroying the NFL, and the next “acceptable” sport to the new ager is soccer.
I will never understand how anyone can get all worked up over 90 minutes of an uncontrollable ball going from one team’s possession to the other’s and wind up with a 0-0 or 0-1 score. AFTER 90 MINUTES!
The only reason why so many people are playing soccer is so they don’t have to watch it.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:18:09 PM PST
by
laweeks
To: Empireoftheatom48
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:20:45 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: dfwgator
I remember that fondly. I lived in NY and was a cosmos fan at the time. I remember Pele, Georgio Chinalia, and Franz Beckenbauer. They were amazing players.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:21:59 PM PST
by
3Fingas
(Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
To: BenLurkin
Don't get me wrong, I can't stand soccer. But do you really think soccer players are pussies? Cause you'd be wrong...
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:24:40 PM PST
by
stormer
To: 3Fingas
I was in Fort Lauderdale, when we had the Strikers: Gerd Muller, Georgie Best, Gordie Banks, Jan Van Beveren, Teo Cubillas....and we hated Rodney Marsh and the frickin’ Tampa Bay Rowdies.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:25:18 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: nickcarraway
Right along with the rest of the Europeanization of America.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:27:47 PM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: dfwgator
I remember those guys too. Right you are, the NASL failed because lesser teams could not pay the dough to attract the talent. I don’t know if professional soccer is financial feasible in all parts of the country considering the other sports options available.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:28:21 PM PST
by
3Fingas
(Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
To: 3Fingas
I don’t see soccer as very much of a “team” sport. The players are on sides, but they are not really teams. Co-operation among players on the same side seems to be ad hoc and there is no strategy.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:30:40 PM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: 3Fingas
If they kept it to maybe 10 teams in the best markets, they could have spread the talent around. They just went crazy with expansion, at least the MLS avoided it, although I do wonder if they are starting to overstep things as well.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:31:29 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: arthurus
High-level soccer requires a lot of passing which is certainly a team effort.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:33:48 PM PST
by
3Fingas
(Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
To: stormer
They aren't pussies.
They just act like it!
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:34:15 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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