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To: sevinufnine

Soccer - a transplanted euroweenie non-sport, where little Sara can play with little Johnny and no one gets hurt and everyone gets a trophy.


100 posted on 06/27/2014 8:35:16 AM PDT by Patriot365
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To: Patriot365
"Soccer - a transplanted euroweenie non-sport, where little Sara can play with little Johnny and no one gets hurt and everyone gets a trophy."

Well, if the number of injuries that occur is a measure of the greatness of a sport, let's hear it for Russian Roulette and 1950's auto racing (20% fatality rate in 1950's F1, a death or two at Indy almost every year). But, in fact, serious injuries - broken legs, broken ankles, broken arms, tendon injuries - are not rare in soccer. But, yeah, everybody gets a trophy, although that may now also be happening in other little league sports.
106 posted on 06/27/2014 8:45:25 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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I follow sports economics and sociology as a hobby, and it will hurt yourself to admit—the “everyone gets a trophy concept” is as American as apple pie. We own it.


110 posted on 06/27/2014 8:50:09 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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