Typical American take. Not enough scoring as if that was the only thing to watch for in a sporting event. Ignore the flow of the play, the improvisation, the athletic skills and physical prowess of the players. Just ram the ball, puck, or whatever into a goal over and over again. Seven foot tall physical anomalies shooting at a ten foot high target. Two hundred or more points per game. Time out after time out, substitute after substitute, Deliberate fouls in BBall OK. Soccer..oh my criminal. Football 300 pound goliaths covered in everything short of armour plate ramming into one another for a 15 minutes of play that drags out over three hours spiced up with seemingly endless commercials. Then after the final 2 minutes which take in some cases 20 minutes to complete, the game is won by a European soccer style kicker with a spotlessly clean uniform and a kick from 25 yards. Point difference 1,2, or 3. Big deal. Soccer (football) is the most popular game for a reason. It is exciting in all phases. BTW the highest paid athletes in the world...Soccer players. Just saying.
“Typical American take.”
We hear that a lot in the context of other debates. Only industrialized country that doesn’t ... like soccer?
Excellent riposte, Don. As one who wouldn’t walk across the street to watch the Super Bowl if you gave me free tickets (although I would scalp them for an obscene amount) it gets a little tedious listening to soccer bashers brag about the superiority of American sports, especially the absurdly misnamed football.
Don’t forget about the fruity celebrations and chest pounding displays that are so common in football and basketball. At least in soccer that stuff doesn’t happen 40 times a game.
I like that it is so hard to score in soccer. I will never get how the ease of scoring is held up as some type of benefit, ‘Oh, we made it less difficult, so much better.’
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