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To All Soccer Fans: American soccer is on fire
Business Insider ^ | 06/11/2015 | Tony Manfred

Posted on 06/11/2015 8:24:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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21 posted on 06/11/2015 8:49:19 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ohioman
I am with you and would rather go to work than watch a soccer match.

You sit there for 90 minutes watching 250 (or more) changes of possession while somebody accidentally gets in the accidental right spot to accidentally kick the ball into the goal accidentally. Then, when this accidental goal happens, you get to slide on the grass on your knees for 10 feet with your arms raised as if you did something tremendous rather than accidentally.

I've always wanted to see what the "coach" of all this mayhem actually tells the players during time outs. What the hell does he actually draw on his clipboard when the game after all is the occasional product of someone being in the right place at the right time, and doing whatever that feat is maybe once or twice in 90 minutes?

Do they actually pay the coach? And if so, why or for what?

22 posted on 06/11/2015 8:58:17 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: ohioman
FOX had a brief series about a US detective working the UK. One story line was an escaped convict leaving a trail of alive but injured people. He escaped to go the big match, and somebody had swiped his tickets, and he was simply following the trail.

At the end, the detective is at the game, handcuffed to the guy, everybody's cheering at the match, and the US detective is bored out of his mind.

I think it was called Keen Eddie. Sienna Miller provided the ongoing eye-candy as the house mate.

23 posted on 06/11/2015 8:59:25 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: laweeks

Excellent comeback.

I’d say the same applies to baseball and golf (not a sport, just glorified game), basically.


24 posted on 06/11/2015 9:00:27 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: SeekAndFind
American soccer is on fire

Is the fire contributing to Global Warming? Don't waste any water on it. There is a drought in CA you know.

25 posted on 06/11/2015 9:02:03 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: laweeks

Ummmm....just so you know....there are no time outs in soccer...I have officiated both soccer and football at the highest levels, and I will tell you soccer is much more of a demand than most people think. Having said that, I also understand that it is like watching paint for most. But if you really know the game, you understand why it is called the beautiful sport. I would personally much rather watch an American Football Game, however...


26 posted on 06/11/2015 9:02:56 AM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: laweeks

Personally I think soccer would greatly benefit just from reducing the field size, at least to our football size. It is way too big and allows far too much freedom for the few players on it to stop action.


27 posted on 06/11/2015 9:03:00 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s American soccer?


28 posted on 06/11/2015 9:04:32 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: laweeks

soccer the segue drug to liking illegal immigration


29 posted on 06/11/2015 9:05:10 AM PDT by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

The should eliminate offside rule, that would transform the game to faster, more goals game.
World’s most popular game/sport finally catching up in US.
“Football” played with hands, injury maker, union screwed is on the way out.
GO USA!!! Great US Chicks!


30 posted on 06/11/2015 9:15:58 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: SeekAndFind
LFL baby, LFL


31 posted on 06/11/2015 9:18:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: laweeks

Accidental goals? Eh, will have to tell David Beckham about that and all of those goals he has hit into the net from a fixed position in the field.

I think I watched an accidental no-hitter once, none of those up at bat could hit the ball that the pitcher just happened to throw.

I think I watched Tom Brady accidentally throw the ball which was accidentally caught by the receiver and accidentally resulted in a touchdown.


32 posted on 06/11/2015 9:32:52 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: SeekAndFind

Please!

Come back to me when the US Men’s team can actually win a group and advance to the the Quarter-Finals of a World cup.

Friendlies at the end of a very long and tiring season with half of the regular starters off the field never count. If the US was grouped with South American teams for WCQ, they’d never even make the big show.


33 posted on 06/11/2015 9:33:27 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Unapologetic supporters of Obama, Sodomy, and Abortion will find the afterlife rather torturous)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good! Hope it burns to ashes.


34 posted on 06/11/2015 9:40:43 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: BeadCounter

Even detractors of soccer have to admit, all things being equal, it’s a sport dominated somewhat by whites versus American professional basketball and the NFL. So in fact, anyone can play the sport, not necessarily being about who is tall and who is strong:

And the last 3 World Cup champions, Germany, Spain, Italy.


35 posted on 06/11/2015 9:45:15 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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Ah soccer...certifiable proof that the rest of the world really is that f*#&ed up.


36 posted on 06/11/2015 9:46:03 AM PDT by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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To: laweeks
On another thread, someone said that to an illiterate, words are just scribbles. As for coaches in soccer, I seem to remember Jerry Jones attaching himself to the hip of the Special One, Jose Mourinho, when the Cowboys were in London.
37 posted on 06/11/2015 9:53:48 AM PDT by gusty
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To: SeekAndFind
To All Soccer Fans: American soccer is on fire

Wrong..."Scotty's on FIRE!"


38 posted on 06/11/2015 10:12:59 AM PDT by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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To: SeekAndFind

Soccer is making some converts in the US and here on FR.

We expect push back. It’s fun to read these posts, but they are ineffective; since there’s nothing new.


39 posted on 06/11/2015 10:19:03 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: SeekAndFind

Never pet a burning dog.


40 posted on 06/11/2015 10:27:56 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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