Hard for me to miss a sport that frequently ends up 90 minutes later with a score of 0-0 (or nil-to-nil, for you common folk) after 600 or so “changes of possessions.”
Derned unmanly European pseudo-sports.
Everybody playing soccer would be better off doing something else.
good
Finally some good news.
But, bigger picture, there should be no 2022 Olympics - at least not in China.
Pretty much the same reason our national team is unimpressive. Most of our players come through college teams, and the level of college coaching sucks. Not withstanding MLS, we have no real pro game here, and MLS at best is sort of CONCOCAF level.
In years past, before the illegal immigration invasion of the 1980’s (which hasn’t stopped), America largely ignored Soccer. Due to the general wealth of the USA, Americans enjoyed numerous other sports, all of which require a bit of money to play with equipment costs, uniforms, specialty grounds etc...
With the importing of 3rd worlders, all of which Soccer is the dominant sport of almost all other nations in the world, Soccer has gained massive inroads in America. This is regardless of whether the US Mens National Team is good or not, the fact is Soccer is continuously getting more popular here because we keep accepting more 3rd worlders into the country.
Every time you ‘soccer moms’ enter your kids into youth league soccer, you are helping transform the USA into another 3rd world dump. Congratulations.
Soccer makes watching darts or cornhole riveting entertainment by comparison. I guess it’s about as interesting as watching someone else run on the treadmill only with more flopping.
They’ll just need to kneel somewhere else.
OK, wait. Since when did you have to qualify for the Olympics? I guess I’ve been out of touch for a while. The Olympics, to me, stopped being about national pride when Carter boycotted in 1980. There was a slight reprieve in the Winter Olympics, but since then, meh.
No Mondos and orange slices for them!
They aren’t even good enough at a gay sport. They should be devastated.
Did they at least look good kneeling for the national anthem? If so then they can consider that as a win.
For decades we are told how much improved the American national soccer team is.
Crappola.
Consistantly some very small country kicks our ass.
Nearly 300,000,000 Americans and we can’t put together a decent team?
You betcha.
With smartphones and the interwebs, the actors who would have gone into soccer have gone to TikTok, Instagram, etc.
Now we will have to listen to that butch chick about how their penises ruin US Soccer.
When you suck, you suck. Nuff’ said.
Oh, good, another thread full of people mocking what they do not understand.
Why am I even reading this.........
Trump curse? Just asking.
The vapid ignorance on this thread is hardly surprising, since I bet most of those posting are fine with watching a sport that requires mealworm length attention spans i.e. “American Football”, golf, or baseball.
A typical soccer player can run any other team sports athlete into the ground in less than 10 minutes.
More people have died playing the sport than “American” sports.
Most people also don’t know that soccer almost became our national sport in the 1880s, but the Ivy Leagues opted for a cross of it with Rugby. There are plenty of books out there regarding that. It’s how “football” (bastardized name) was invented.