Every kid is a winner, and nobody is ever left behind,"
That's only in America, the rest of the world treats the game as serious competitive sport.
Blaming soccer in this regard is like blaming guns for killing people..
In fact it is AMERICAN Football that is the great bastion of Socialism, not Soccer.
Professional Soccer leagues exist world wide. The teams play everyone in their division once at home and once away in the season. The bottom two or three teams get RELEGATED to the lower division while the winning teams from below get promoted to fill their places. The winners of the Top Division are the National Champions.
What happens in the NFL?
The WORST teams get REWARDED with 1st pick in the Draft in an attempt to "redistribute the talent" and EVEN THE PLAYING FIELD (and we are talking about professional businesses here!).
In Soccer there is also a second, separate, Knock-out Cup Competition run during the season. For instance, in England, the FA Cup has over SEVEN HUNDRED teams entered in a sudden death tournament culminating in "The Cup Final", their equivalent to America's over hyped "Super Bowl".
America's attempt at a championship is to hold a domestic post season tournament between just 16 teams and then unilaterally declare the winners as "World Champions"!
Yup WORLD champions of the NATIONAL Football League...LOL!
Soccer, on the other hand, has a TRUE World Championship. It occurs every 4 years and is competed for between NATIONAL teams made up of eligible players from each country.
190 Teams compete to qualify for the WORLD CUP. The Final Tournament is played over a period of a month every 4 years. So don't tell me Soccer isn't competitive. - They don't vote their Champions like College Football does, or did, they don't hold "World Championships" where every other country in the World is excluded and they don't reward failure by redistributing the talent or by imposing wage caps. And as for boring; well, that is born out of ignorance of the game, just as it is with any sport.
But if you want to compare them, soccer is played continuously for two 45 minute periods (plus time added on for injuries) whereas Football takes three hours to play out a one hour play clock. So for two thirds of the time ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is happening. And, of that one hour play clock there is only about 12 to 15 minutes that the ball is motion, the rest of the time is run off.
So in Soccer you have an hour and a half of play in an hour and forty five minutes of elapsed time, in Football you have 15 minutes of play in three hours of elapsed time.
Seems to me that it's Football, not Soccer, that is more like Golf to watch...
12 NFL teams make it to the post season tournament. And yes the eventual winner is the WORLD CHAMPION. Deal with it.
What’s funny is that all of these people dissing soccer, will be right there waving their flags and shouting ‘USA!! USA!!!” when we make it to the World Cup Finals, just like back in 1980 with the Olympic Hockey Team. (And I can see it happening in the not-so-distant future)
Women’s football (soccer)
“Association Football (soccer) is the most prominent team sport for women in many countries, and one of the few women’s team sports with professional leagues (the other global one being basketball).”
Women’s football first became popular on a large scale at the time of the First World War, when employment in heavy industry spurred the growth of the game, much as it had done for men fifty years earlier. The most successful team of the era was Dick Kerrs Ladies of Preston, England, who made up most of the England team for the first Women’s International (playing Scotland in 1920, and winning 22-0).
Despite being more popular than some men’s football events (one match saw a 53,000 strong crowd), women’s football in England suffered a blow in 1921 when The Football Association outlawed the playing of the game on Association members’ pitches, on the grounds that the game (as played by women) was distasteful. This led to the formation of the English Ladies Football Association, and play moved to rugby grounds. The English Women’s FA was formed in 1969 (as a result of the increased interest generated by the 1966 World Cup), and the FA’s ban was finally lifted in 1971.
In the 1970s, Italy became the first country with professional women’s football players, albeit on a part-time basis. The first full-time professional team was the United States national squadThe United States women’s national football (soccer) team operated by the United States Soccer Federation, is the first women’s team in the sport made up of full-time professionals. It is also one of the most successful women’s national football teams, Japan was the first country to have a professional women’s football league.
http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Women:s:football:soccer.html
Face it. Soccer sucks.