No. Soccer is bulls*si*it.
One of my sons and a couple of grandsons love it.
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Soccer is like Chimp Smith getting in a bitch slap fight with Anderson Pooper. Pathetic. It is a sport like playing bathroom battleship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6xLmJVEByA
Soccer gained popularity because non-athletic children of any age, shape or size can participate. This allows for the parents of those children to “feel good” and brag that their kids play a “sport”. Blame the younger baby boomers for pushing their kids into this farce.
What other sport can a participant stand for minutes, run occasionally, kick at a ball, maybe be involved in a score with little or no talent necessary?
But they get pretty uniforms, maybe sweat on a hot day, and get to say they play a sport? Oh, and get a participation trophy.
Makes their overbearing parents proud.
About as exciting as watching paint dry. Kinda like golf.
My wife and I were in a nearly deserted sports bar in San Juan a few years ago. There was only one other person there and a soccer game was playing on a huge wall-sized projection TV. The game seemed to end in a tie and we were on our way out when the other person told us we were crazy to leave at this point since the exciting game wasn’t over. Neither my wife nor I know anything about soccer, but the other fellow was so passionate we decided there must be a good reason to stay. The game went on for a while and there was no score until finally the teams lined up and began kicking the ball straight into the opponant’s goal. Still, nothing seemed to happen as each time ball was caught. Finally, somehow, the game ended and the lone patron stormed out of the bar. As we left, we saw him marching angrily down the street. Clearly, we had missed something exciting, but what it was remains a mystery.