[Turbo Pig]

I coached Youth Soccer for 5 years, so I say this with a little experience. There is something fundamentally wrong with a sport that routinely ends up in a tie. As a coach, soccer parents are by far the most liberal types I’ve dealt with as a group. That includes football, wrestling, baseball, softball, and volleyball parents.

Look at a community’s youth athletics programs, and you will be able to tell the ideological makeup of the community by what sports are at the top of the list in participation and support.

Just my 2 cents.

[HangnJudge]

I've both played and coached soccer at multiple levels

I was once on a team that was 0-12
Lost one game by 19-0
Scores 2 goals the entire year

From that I learned not so much fair play, as Perseverance

But winning was a lot more fun and engaging

[1rudeboy]

There is something fundamentally wrong with a sport that routinely ends up in a tie.

Funny, I think exactly the opposite. It's too easy to ruin a sport by introducing all sorts of absurd machinations in order to avoid a tie outcome.

It really hasn't been that long since tie outcomes were an intergral part of the process, across most sports.