Posted on 09/10/2017 3:28:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dear John: When will the US understand that the universal sport of soccer cannot exist in our country? It is a poor man’s sport where no equipment is needed, only a ball and a field in which to kick it.
It cannot survive in the US for three reasons: Boring, boring, boring.
The most excitement is among the spectators who burn or stampede the stadiums or kill the goalie or referee — which is where the term “fan” was derived: “Fanatic.”
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Soccer sux. 90 minutes, score 1-0. Yes, BORING.
It is only promoted in the US to demote football, basketball and baseball and to advance one world gov’t.
Curling is for cold climates. I lived in northern Wisconsin, where in wintertime the sports were ice fishing, tobogganing, sledding, playing hockey in a frozen ditch, or watching NHL games on TV or curling matches. All of which involved an abundance of ice or frozen snow. Canadian curling was the best.
Just a regional thing, IMO.
Common decorum prevents me posting what’s behind the real drive it push soccer on American Yutes, but it’s all explained in the book (the title of which I cannot post) with the ISBN-13 of 978-1618081452.
Interesting but neither entertaining nor compelling.
Soccer is like jazz: expertly done noodling.
Sports should look more like this piece sounds:
Sorry but you are clueless about US women’s soccer.
They routinely get trounced by 17 year old boys teams they play in friendly matches to prepare for their ‘very high level’ matches.
Go to a good high school boy’s game and you see better soccer.
I played many a backyard football game with only a ball and trees for goal posts.
Agreed.
That is like the end to every Giants game.
I love it. Can’t get enough of it. It’s not “boring”. Constant play. Compare to NFL where there are about 2 seconds of action seperated by 60 seconds of regrouping and a ton of commercial breaks.
‘Soccer a gentlemen’s watched by hooligans!
Rugby a hooligan’s game watched by gentlemen!’
brilliance...pure brilliance; reminiscent of the CIA-Mafia analogy...gentlemen who wish to be killers-killers who wish to be gentlemen...
‘Soccer players are some of the best conditioned and talented athletes in the world’
so they’d have no issue riding the Tour de France, right...?
Yes Kaeperdick need a game he can play too
Its popularity is due to the influx of third-worlders and the feminization of sports in America. I have more fun boycotting the NFL than watching soccer.
Every sport carries with it a skill set that is not necessarily translatable to other sports. Just like you can't drop Lebron James or Usain Bolt into the Tour de France, you could not drop cyclists on a world class soccer field or soccer players in a cycling event and expect them to succeed.
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