Actually, if the level of insight is akin to what they show on this thread, I hope beyond hope that the anti-soccer contingent stay away so as not to infect soccer with their inanity.
However, I have one major problem with soccer. The way its participants (at the highest level, at least) roll around on the ground and feign injury. The way they launch into a swan dive at the slighest hint of physical contact. This is the opposite of what I see in most of the other sports which I follow.
In other sports, such as football or baseball for example, players will feign normality after they have been flattened with a vicious hit or stung with a pitch, rather than give the opposition the idea that they have inflicted hurt.
It is this cry-baby behavior which causes onlookers to conclude that soccer players are a)soft and b)duplicitous.
If this were what you really "hoped" then presumably you wouldn't bother responding to any of us inane anti-soccer people.
Soccer fans really seem to have a deep-seated self-esteem problem, and/or insecurities about their taste in sport. So insecure about the sport they (insist, or pretend, that they) love, the fact that someone, somewhere, might not love it as much as they do is simply intolerable for them. For this reason I tend to pity proselytizing soccer fans. And the more they protest, and defensively defend their beloved sport and insist that I should too, the more I pity them.