US Women’s Soccer Team Is Incredibly Hard to Root For

I'll watch an EPL game or the cup tournament matches, but MLS? No. And women's soccer?! NO!

I don't disagree, though I was happy to see Messi come to MLS.

41 posted on 07/28/2023 1:14:13 PM PDT by neverevergiveup

To: neverevergiveup

You won’t get an argument from me on that. A typical NFL game has 11-15 minutes of actual sports action embedded in a 3+ hour television broadcast.

Makes your typical soccer game seem like the frenetic final lap and the aftermath of the 1979 Daytona 500.

42 posted on 07/28/2023 1:23:28 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)

Actually, it's real football, not the fat-ball played in the NFL where they have ‘breathers’ after every down, mostly play in only one direction (few playing defense and offense) and have official time-outs and television time-outs. Real football (soccer) has no time outs, and many players play for 90 minutes - running most of the time. It's a tough sport. You will NEVER see a soccer player with their fat unhealthy gut hanging over their belt like you do routinely in the National Fat League.

Also, in America where pinheaded liberals think anything ‘European’ is superior to America, there are those a**h**es who only like soccer because it's not American. That's NOT how it is in the rest of the world. Soccer is BIG money, and is not taxpayer funded in the vast majority of the world.

Finally, as opposed to American sports, most soccer leagues in Europe have relegation. The three teams that finish last in the league are demoted to a lower league and lose money. They don't get ‘the top draft pick’ like the losing teams in the US. They essentially get kicked out of the league and have to fight like crazy to get promoted back up to the league. Some teams fight for decades to get back up.

43 posted on 07/28/2023 1:53:35 PM PDT by neverevergiveup

To: neverevergiveup

“Dissing” football - soccer - is a sport in itself. The “Yo Momma” of sports.

Not my sport of choice to follow, but then I’d rather go for a walk or swim than watch overpaid imbiciles do some back-and-forth activities any day anyway.

OK, I still watch some Formula 1 races, which is also pretty much “meh!” these days...

44 posted on 07/28/2023 4:24:16 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)

To: nickcarraway

Hope a team of trannies beats the snot out of them.

45 posted on 07/28/2023 8:25:02 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)

To: nickcarraway

They could play the Ted Bundy Serial Killers Team and I’d root for Ted

46 posted on 07/30/2023 9:35:37 AM PDT by albie

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