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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

No.


21 posted on 03/01/2014 4:35:12 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: dfwgator

Yes, that might work. It would also depend on the season. If it were kept to the summer, it would only have to compete against baseball, so that would make it more competitive for fans.


22 posted on 03/01/2014 4:35:51 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
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Less than $4.3k to go!!

23 posted on 03/01/2014 4:37:26 PM PST by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: stormer

Thank goodness that soccer players would never be guilty of “flopping”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioyt2zzm530


24 posted on 03/01/2014 4:37:28 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: BenLurkin
Is America becoming more pussified?

It's the xenoestrogens in the food and water...we'll all be watching/playing soccer before you know it...

25 posted on 03/01/2014 4:38:03 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: rlmorel

If you watched the English matches from the 70s it was a much tougher game then. Things that would be a straight Red card today went on all the time without so much as a foul being given.


26 posted on 03/01/2014 4:40:20 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: arthurus
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.

It's the exact opposite.

Check out this amazing goal, probably the greatest ever, and probably the greatest example of teamwork in any sport.

27 posted on 03/01/2014 4:41:19 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: trisham

No question - it’s comical to watch sometimes. But that said, there’re some pretty incredible athletes playing the game...


28 posted on 03/01/2014 4:43:28 PM PST by stormer
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To: rlmorel

LOL!! That looks like a clip from the WWE! Only with soccer uniforms.


29 posted on 03/01/2014 4:44:43 PM PST by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I’ll see you Wilshere and raise you Dennis Bergkamp..Plus it’s worth it just to hear the Dutch commentator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZkCFoqSBs


30 posted on 03/01/2014 4:45:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: ifinnegan

If I were Czar, and I mean real Czar and not some wimpy Obama czar, I would ban soccer and make lacrosse the official alternate Spring sport to baseball. It has every thing soccer does not: scoring, contact, lack of thespianism, and it requires opposable thumbs.


31 posted on 03/01/2014 4:47:11 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

I would bring in Gaelic Football.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEAbWrdB9XU


32 posted on 03/01/2014 4:48:39 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

Soccer...indisputable proof that the rest of the world really IS that f#*%$d up.


33 posted on 03/01/2014 4:52:32 PM PST by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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To: FreedomPoster

Yes, yes, yes and yes!


34 posted on 03/01/2014 4:54:27 PM PST by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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To: Hardastarboard; dfwgator

Hehe, I have no idea what the context of that is, they look like they are on the same team.

I don’t really dislike soccer, when I see it being promoted in this country, it always seems to be by liberals. That is just my impression, don’t know if it is true or not. Probably not.

I guess it is a euro thing, so I feel obliged to poke at it. God knows they poke at our eyes a lot more than we poke at theirs!


35 posted on 03/01/2014 4:56:28 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: dfwgator

Could be said of a lot of things. Look at professional football...sure, a guy like Ben Davidson was extreme, but he wasn’t so far away from a lot of guys who played in that day.

Crazy stuff.


36 posted on 03/01/2014 4:58:30 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: BenLurkin

precisely

37 posted on 03/01/2014 5:05:18 PM PST by tomkat (3%+1)
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To: FreedomPoster

You understand!


38 posted on 03/01/2014 5:14:44 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: nickcarraway

I think hockey is growing. My son played hockey all through school, then juniors hockey in Minnesota. My 3 grandsons play and soon 1 granddaughter and another grandson will play. In fact my grandson, who’s 12, played against Ben Sasse’s daughter. Her team won. She’s a pretty good player.


39 posted on 03/01/2014 5:20:31 PM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: ifinnegan

Thank you. Yes, yes I believe I do.

My son played soccer as a little kid. Then, about a dozen years ago, he played H.S. lacrosse for 3 years. I loved spectating lacrosse.

It’s time to start paying attention, I expect there will be some good college lacrosse on ESPN soon. And I have a Roku for ESPN3 now.


40 posted on 03/01/2014 5:26:03 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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