Only a few days away and the pinnacle of excitement for soccer fans all of the world will begin. Soccer fans also know what that means. The soccer haters come out and express how much soccer sucks.
Every four years the “soccer sucks” phrase awakens from its deep sleep in the brain of know-it-alls. You don’t hear it any other time. Only when World Cup fever starts to heat up. To those who say it, I’m surprised they took the time away from smashing beer cans on their forehead to speak.
Not everyone like every single sport out there. I don’t understand all of them. Not everyone likes hockey, golf or tennis. But when the NHL season, Masters, or US Open begins you don’t hear those haters come out and say “Golf sucks. It’s so boring.” It’s just soccer that they think sucks.
Why so? Because it’s not America’s game. Here kids grow up with football and baseballs in their cribs. Soccer is something they do when they’re five years old but eventually grow out of it. Ignorant people believe it’s not a true sport if you use only your feet and not your hands. Also if you use your feet why isn’t it called football? Those are the same geniuses who think lighting their fart on fire is funny.
They’re also whining about how slow the game is. They say, “There are lots of passing the ball around and games end with one or two goals. Boring!” No one ever said baseball was a fast sport. How about football? For all the excitement on the gridiron each play only lasts seconds then both teams take a break until another play runs again. In basketball what can be so exciting about a 2 point basket? I say to that, “Look he made another one. I just saw one of those 10 seconds ago. Wow, this time he shot a 3 point shot.” Finally the same people who hate the lack of action or scoring in soccer are the same ones who watch a stock car drive around a track for three hours. What can be more boring?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a huge fan of most of the sports I just mentioned (except for the last one). Those who say soccer sucks are saying they’d rather watch bottom dwellers San Francisco 49ers play the anemic Cleveland Browns to a 10-3 finish instead of a World Cup final between soccer powerhouses Brazil and England.
Those who hate soccer just don’t understand the game. If you don’t know a goal kick from a field goal you’re not going appreciate the skill, artistry, and strategy of soccer. Put someone in front of a television who doesn’t know why a running back runs into a huge pile of guys is going to find it boring as well.
If you don’t like soccer don’t watch it. When the highlights come on go to the fridge and find some leftovers. Don’t read about it in the newspaper. Go straight to the comics. Just don’t say it sucks because you don’t know it all.
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I’ve always read your blog and this is one of the reasons why. I feel the exact same way you do. I’ve played just about every sport out there and enjoy watching just as many. I don’t bash the ones I don’t understand or like because they all take a certain amount of skill (even driving in circles). But, every competition pales in comparison to the World Cup. I was lucky enough to go to 4 games in 1990 when it was here (I was 12) and it was amazing! And I’m super pumped that all the games this year will be in HD. USA! USA!
Point well made..
Don’t like it? Then don’t watch it!
bravo for this post, the morons who say soccer suck don’t understand the intricacies of the game and how great of a sport it is when played correctly. Luckily, I think we have more and more people like you around America who understand soccer and how amazing it is, especially the world cup.
I wouldn’t say I’d rather watch 49ers vs. Browns, as you suggested, but I would prefer… um, say… any Orioles regular season game to the World Cup final. You make a good point though. From now on, instead of saying “Soccer sucks!,” I’ll go with “I don’t like Soccer because I clearly don’t understand it!”
Watch this video, then tell me how you can take this sport seriously:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccDyp2aRRCg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdeadspin%2Ecom%2F
I’d agree, as I live by that mantra. And it’s not just soccer, hockey and baseball to a lesser extent bore me. But, on the other hand, I truly believe half the problem is soccer fans, here and abroad seem to care so much about U.S. fans not caring. I mean, it’s hard for me to accurately judge opinions in other countries, but I just don’t feel that Americans (besides Tags) give a shit if anybody in SPain watches American football and I don’t feel that the reverse is true for soccer. No?
Also, there is something inherently wrong with a game where a team can score one goal and simply sit on the lead. It happens all the time. It’s not the lack of scoring that’s a turnoff (I love a good pitchers’ duel or a 1-0 hockey game). It’s the LACK OF SCORING CHANCES.
Let’s face it: Comebacks are one of the most exciting parts of sports, and they’re so infrequent in soccer because it’s so difficult to generate scoring chances.
I love how the author and one of the posts suggest that anyone who dislikes soccer is some kind of neanderthal. If that’s the case, what, exactly, does that make the hooligans who routinely cause mass chaos and even death at matches in Europe? Or the worthless piles of excrement who chant racist cheers and throw bananas at black players?
Yeah, really seems like you soccer boys are sophisticates.
Good post. Anyone who’s ever played the game understands the excitement, skill, and strategy involved.
For starters, we have hired a guy to cover World Cup for us. By hiring, that means giving him a few Miller High Life 12ers.
But it would be pointless to say that soccer sucks any other time than the World Cup. Martha Burke picketed Augusta’s lack of women during the Masters because any other time would have been silly. So this is a perfect opportunity to let the rest of the world know that we aren’t much into this thing.
Also, I interact with a lot of Euros and they are constantly harping about how great soccer is. There is no other sport in the world that tries to push it down our throats like soccer. Eventually, hockey got wise and just limped to the OLN were it belonged. But soccer fans continue to harp on how much we should appreciate the sport. We get it, you like soccer, can you just let us ignore it in peace? We know, we know, it makes us bad sports fans. But only soccer fans take it so personally when somebody doesn’t like their sport.
Besides, baseball gets the biggest rap for being boring, out of date, etc. But our feeling is, if you don’t like it, that means a shorter beer line for us. In fact, if less of you liked baseball I would be the better off for it.
That all being said, you will find no bigger fan of the US Soccer team than us. The sooner the U.S. wins this thing, the sooner soccer will disappear for ever as the rest of the world finds another sport for us to ignore (here’s a hint—water polo). In fact, we feel so strongly about this, we want to take the U.S.’s greatest athletes (Mike Vick, LeBron James, LaDainian Tomlinson, et al) and have them train for four years for the 2010 World Cup. At that time, we will unleash them on the world, so embarrassing them, nobody will ever want to play it again.
So go USers!
Here is the kind of example of what you are talking about:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/sports/14741693.html
As you can see, it is very brilliant and insightful. I guess those soccer-haters do have a point.
I agree and disagree with this post.
I agree that soccer haters should just quietly go about their business and change the channel. You definitely don’t see people bashing other sports that they don’t like as frequently as soccer bashers hammer our game.
However, some of the posters are right. To refer to football fans, NASCAR fans, baseball fans, etc. meatheads and the like would be just as ridiculous as the soccer haters themselves.
The bottom line is this. There are hooligans in ALL sports. There are idiots all over the US and the world. Shit happens. As long as people passionately follow the sport they love and quietly ignore the sports they don’t, we’d all get along fine. Why is that so hard? Why do the Jim Rome’s of the world feel that they have to make their point when really they have no facts at all, just opinions? Honestly, great, you hate it, you don’t understand it…wonderful. BIG DEAL. Millions of people love the game and that’s just something that you’re going to have to deal with.
Here’s a point of fact for you: If American’s hate soccer so much, why is it that the World Cup in 1994 generated more revenue than any other WC Finals in history? Interesting…
I’m not saying if you don’t like soccer you’re a meathead. I’m saying those who come out and flat out say “soccer sucks” are the guilty ones. If you hate it then hate it but don’t ram it down our throats about how much you hate it and what you hate about it. There’s this sports radio guy who almost everyday he’s on the air says “soccer sucks. It’s terrible” and he laughs. It gets old real fast. Dude, we get the point. I feel like there are many more like him out there.
Let those who enjoy soccer and this whole upcoming month without hearing about how much our sport sucks.
I’m not a fan of hockey but I don’t go into message boards or express how much it sucks because I don’t get it and don’t like it.
I don’t condone European soccer fan behavior. Those hooligans who riot and chant racial slurs are terrible. Fans here can be just as bad.
That YouTube video is pretty funny. Obviously it’s an exaggerated parody of fouls in soccer but yes fake fouls happen. Referees have been told to give out red cards (automatic ejections) for players who fake it.
For those who support my viewpoint and enjoyed my post, thanks for your feedback.
First, I hate soccer. I don’t know why. I understand it (mostly), I just hate it. Not because it is boring…I love golf and baseball (though I do understand the thinking behind these two sports). I don’t hate hockey even though I’m originally from L.A. and have no business caring about hockey. I even liked hockey before I moved to Minnesota. I don’t hate hockey even though I don’t understand the strategy at all…if there is any.
Second, the World Cup time is the DUMBEST time to rip soccer. I actually watch and follow the World Cup and can admit I like to do so. The competitive spirit there is something deeply missing from too much of the NBA, NFL & MLB. At least the losing teams in soccer still try and try hard.
Third, that Pioneer Press article is written by an idiot. Please don’t mischaracterize the rest of Minnesota for that idiot.
I think many find soccer boring because the game is not formatted to be TV friendly. Let’s face it, every American sport has been formatted for television.
In soccer, there arre no time outs, no commercials for going to the fridge…I also think the fact that the clock counts upwards (towards 90 minutes) instead of counting downwards erases the possibility of those exciting last-second, two-minute warning type plays.
For the record, I like soccer.
I have no trouble saying soccer is just not my thing. Believe me, I have tried. I was traveling in Italy and Turkey during the last WC and I was living in London during the Euro Cup. I’ve sat in crowded pubs filled with shaven-headed hooligans, face-painted nationals and massive shouts of “GOAL!” and I still could not feign interest. I even saw my first soccer riot, and was more depressed than anything. England lost to Portugal, so hooligans attacked the Portugese areas of London and trashed cars and businesses. American sports rivalries rarely escallate into that. More over, English hooligans IN PORTUGAL ITSELF were rioting. What the hell are you thinking? Rioting in a host’s country because your team didn’t win?
I don’t think Americans hate soccer per se, I just think we enjoy it as a recreational sport and the de facto team to play when you’re first starting out. We just cannot enjoy it as a spectator sport, and we’re too busy enjoying the sports that we have cultivated. Contrary to popular belief, we are not alone on this one. The Canadians have never cared much for soccer, prefering hockey, baseball and basketball. The Australians have also developed several different forms of football. The Irish are into soccer but they seem more passionate about hurling and Irish football.
I dunno, I think we can just accept the fact that soccer isn’t our thing and move on.
Hey,
I’m not american – australian actually – just stumbled onto this site by accident. Despite our team getting into the soccer world cup this year, I can’t jump on the bandwagon like the rest of my country. Whats so strange is I actually played soccer for 10 years – and with a few of the guys in the world cup at the moment! (admittedly in high school).
My point is that I do say soccer sucks, for its lack of intricacies and the fact that the best team can’t win consistently. I grew up playing the game, but discovered the Aussie versions of NFL and baseball – rugby and cricket. That said, I don’t mean to degrade the sport, I’m just sad so many people are so obsessed by such a random game!
It’s a complex issue.
I like some American sports (baseball, notably), but I love international soccer as well, so I kind of straddle both sides of this debate.
On the one hand, I don’t have much sympathy for the common critiques of soccer from many American sports fans. Soccer is a very satisfying sport precisely because of the difficulty in scoring goals: a goal in soccer is far more significant than any score in any US sport, and it’s understanding the rest of the game that makes it exciting and interesting. I think it really is due to a lack of understanding of the game by many Americans that leads to comments and observations like that.
Second, I think that soccer is tribal in a way that very few American sports really are. It’s true that many sports teams in the US have some extremely hardcore fans, but by and large the average sports fan in the US is not nearly as tribally, as viscerally linked to their main sports team as the typical soccer fan outside the US might be. Americans tend to view sports as entertainment, whereas soccer fans outside the US view soccer much more seriously, much more viscerally and emotionally. It’s not the kind of game you take the family to for a pleasant afternoon’s enjoyment, it’s a serious, visceral, emotional thing, and there are relatively few American sprts fans who relate to their own sports (again outside of the hardcore) in a way that is really similar to the typical non-US soccer fan. A manifestation of this is how non-winning sides in European leagues still draw significant crowds: they do so because the fans are tied to the team almost by blood ties, rather than the “entertainment”-oriented fan who is interested in seeing the team when they play well (which explains lower attendance rates for subpar performing teams in North America in sports where there are many games played — ie,other than NFL where there is a very limited schedule).
Third, there is the international aspect to soccer. International soccer is huge. The European teams play not only the World Cup every four years, but then also play the European Cup every four years on a two year off schedule, so there is always an international competition going on. Same for the Latin American teams. It’s, again, a tremendous source of national pride and a visceral, national, emotional tie that people have to the team. It’s much more than entertainment … it’s about national pride. It’s about Argentina giving it back to England in the 1986 World Cup a few years after the Falklands War; it’s about England giving it back to Germany in 1966, only 20 years after the end of WWII. These things are not just sporting entertainment, they’re a playing field for national, emotional, visceral connections, and in that way are thoroughly dissimilar to anything in US sports.
So, at the end of the day, while I enjoy both, I think that the reason why so many Americans do not understand and relate to (and like) soccer is because they do not have a visceral/emotional tie to the team the way fans of soccer outside the US do. Soccer becomes much more “entertaining” when it is felt viscerally (as it is for me when I root for the team in England that generations of my family has rooted for, for example) … and that’s mostly inaccessible to most Americans and, in a way, a very unfamiliar way of relating to sport for most Americans as well.
Why are you all analysing this half to death? Its football, (I refuse to call it soccer, I’m british), its a game. Just like basketball and cricket and whatever. Its more popular in some places in the world than otheres. Just like basketball in the US.
Some people arent gonna like it. Live with it.
Its just a fricken game, for christs sake. Its nothing to be psychoanalyzed or stressed out about. Yeah, I like it. I dont like basketball though, that doesnt mean I’m going to post a long dribble about how much it friggen sucks!
how many countries play baseball, basketball and american football??
if you dont like it then just shut up i dont like baseball but im quiet about it and i understand every part of the game i would have more of a right to say it sucks thant people who say soccer sucks and have never played it alot of americans say oh theyre always falling and acting like they got hurt first of that happens in alot of sports in basketball players draw fouls and take a charge for a result in football a wide receiver might just let his arm go so they could call a pass interference but to say that that soccer players are pu$$ies is stupid ive seen alot take dives but ive also seen alot take hard hits remeber they dont wear pads OR cups dont say sh!t if youve never gotten kicked in the ankles with metal cleats or got elbowed in the ear reason why most soccer fans get mad when someone says they dont like soccer is because is usually followed by a because it sucks or is for girls it just insukts them
peace, jesse
Wow this is just to much. I will let everyone know why Americans hate socer but first off to answer Brandon’s question of why the World Cup in 94 made the most amount of money? Thats easy Brandon… Capitolism, i read that they were going to show games with no commercials What are you kidding me. In Socialist countries you dont get the Wall Marts Coca Cola’s and Budweiser droping 100Mil for 30seconds of advertising bliss.
Let me start by saying Soccer is for poor people, and no i dont want to hear well i like soccer and i have lots of money. That statement is just a generality. Tools needed to play socer semi enflated round ball and 20 something guys with a few hours to kill. Also i am tired of hearing they are such great athlete they run around the whole time. If that made you an athlete those guys from Nigeria or one of those other African nations that win all the marathons would have a kick ass soccer team. And as far as how they win all those marathons i ask you this question? When was the last time you had to chase down a gazell for dinner? Ya i though so.
When i watch them take a dive and fall down and hold there legs and scream in pain only to be taken off on a stretcher…you have got to be joking. Americans have to much pride to pretend to be hurt or even if it does hurt you will under no circumstances let the other guy know. Sometimes NFL players get taken out on a stretcher it is call being paraplegic. They spend the rest of there lives trying to walk again. Not go running back on the field 30 seconds later.
Alot of those countries in the Cup have no buisness playing anything. Memo to all the african nations, whatever it cost to get your teams plain tickets and those uniforms together. Save that money and try planting some more crops so my country only has to send 125 billion dollars in Aid next year instead of 125.1 billion dollars. And if you dont want to grow more food thats fine by me how about putting on a condom from time to time and help yourselves with the whole Aids thing you got going on. Psssssss ya know it is transmited sexually. While i am on that subject, nice job France way to put up a fight if you would try equally as hard fending off other countries invaiding yours, we would not have to go over there and give you your country back every time there is a problem.
Soccer in general is a slow paced boring game, imagine playing basketball on a court the size of a tarmack and then making the baskets 30ft high you dribble you dribble you dribble ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh its taken away they dribble they dribble they dribble they dribble ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh got it back you dribble you dribble you dribble shoot dammmmmmmmmmiiiiitttttttt missed repeat that for 2 hrs. Soccer fans sing in the stands because they are very bored. When i see profesional athletes they are big riped and explosive, soccer players look malnurished guys try mixing in some weight training once in a while. It boils down to American sports star are hero’s, and hero,s dont pretend to get hurt, have a physique of a 12 year old girl, long hair and if they score take off there shirt and run around doing the airplane that is just all around fkn gay.
Futbol is the best sport
no doubt about it
amercians are just lazy and wont ttry hard enough to compete with teams that use soccer as a way outta the ghetto
trust me
im not gonna write a huge thing because it is already known that futbol is the best
Toronto
Soccer Sucks, eh.
It’s a boring-shit version of Ice Hockey
if you look at how passionette football is (soccer for those who dont know) compared to other sports there is a HUGE difference. In say a Super bowl commercial you see a fat guy wailing his teams flag around, drinking beer witch is great if he enjoy’s that. And in a Football commercial there are cheering thier heart out waving thier countrie’s flag singing along with the crowd. I mean they cry if thier country gets knocked out. You never really see that in hockey or something like that. Oh and “pierre” Soccer doesnt suck Eh.
Soccer does suck, I admit it. I only play because I’m a fairy and a pansy.
Oh and I also like to give reach-arounds.
Since we can’t even agree on a name for this ridiculous sport, why don’t we just call it what we did in grammar school: keep-away.
To those of you who refer to videos:
Matt. Hello….!
If you cannot see that “Italy Training” video is obviously a joke, I’m afraid I cannot take anything you say about soccer seriously.
If you actually believe that video was shot secretly at an actual soccer training session, you fulfill my prejudices of americans: dumb and introverted (You guys know practically nothing about the rest of the world, as your own Michael Moore has made very
clear in books such as “Dude, Where’s My Country?”
All in all, quit criticizing soccer. Sadly, you’re the only country in the world to love and be based on sports such as basketball, baseball and your so called “football”.
But if these make you happy, nothing wrong about that.
lmao Soccer does suck and that is why most people don’t watch it.
Mehh each to their own though .
Cheers
Brendan,
That was a fantastic post, and I couldn’t agree more.
The thing about football (soccer) is the passion. I know you can say American fans are just as passionate, but it isn’t the same.
I am a fan of US sports. I go to a large US university so I like college football. I used to watch NFL games all the time.
However, I never felt the same “visceral” (as Brendan stated) connection as I do with football. During the US-Italy game of the world cup last year the tension was so great that I couldn’t watch the second half (lol).
The type of “visceral” connection is what makes the sport so great. This passion, which is far greater than just entertainment.
Sure, I grew up in Denver and rooted hard for the Broncos during the 1997 and ‘98 super bowl seasons, but I never felt the same emotional, passionate, visceral engagement that I felt during the world cup.
As Brendan stated, fans in Europe feel this sort of charge year-round with the club teams they support.
I feel like football is something you fall in love with. Almost inexplicably… it just lures you in. You become hooked.
soccer fans in europe call the colored people horrible racial slurs and throw bananas on the field and what does fifa do NOTHING soccer is the most overrated sport on the planet soccer aka the sport of no skill or keep away on a grand scale. ball is not too big goal huge why does it never make it inside it;s hard for us americans to get excited about that crappy sport when we were raised to like far more better sports and when i say better i mean WAY better. soccer sucks to everyone who likes soccer i feel sorry for u cause that shit sucks i would rather watch full house reruns w/ my lil cousin -grass grow -paint dry go to the dentist well u get the idea soccer sucks
soccer=inferior athlets-inferior sport
no one in america likes soccer soccer sucks.
soccer ball ye big soccer goal real big than why does the ball seem to never get inside we have far better sports to anyone who likes soccer. sucks to be you . keep away on a grand scale never any exitement soccer in not even an afterthought in the states
The reason some Americans come out with comments about soccer is because they are threatened by it. America is a nation built on power and being (supposedly) better than everyone else. American football is a secure sport for america to like because they will always be by far the best. Most of the world couldn’t tell you what a quarterback is. Then comes soccer, and they hate the fact that they are absolutely terrible at it. Seriously I could name about 30 nations who would run them off the field. So instead of admitting that there is something in the world that America is crap at, it gives them more of a sense of power to ridicule it. They want everyone to know that they don’t care and that is why they’re crap at it.
I am English and have had Soccer rammed down my throat all of my life. In reality under half of the UK population actually like Soccer yet it is constantly on our TV screens in the UK. When I go out at weekends there are 10 + football pitches standing idle for everyone in use. Soccer is the original armchair sport. Sport England (a Government body) surveys show Soccer seventh in the league of participation sports in the UK. Apparently Soccer players run four miles in a game and we are supposed to be impressed. I am an old fart and I can run four miles in thirty minutes. Low scoring games are statistically games of chance – one mistake by a defender and a goal is scored and often the lesser team wins – what sort of sport is that. In reality I like all sports but Soccer is well over cooked
Gee you americans have got the biggest inferiority complex in the known universe.
In the uk we don’t care much for baseball [a british sport] we aren’t interested in gridiron, no matter how much you try to stuff it down our throats.
Yet not once have I opened a british newspaper and read an article entitled…”baseball sucks”.
Americans are so insecure that no one likes their sports and that they suck at the best sport one earth.
Get over my american friends, you suck at the most important activity on earth, after sex, deal with it and quit being obsessed by football.
Football has 1.4 billion participants worldwide, your sports are about as popular around the world as school shootings and kid rock.
Get over it you insecure meatheads.
Anyone who reads through the above posts would be left with the impression that Americans do nothing all day except sit around and complain about soccer.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
In reality, the vast majority of native-born American citizens don’t give a flying fuck about the sport. And, they never will.
It is unquestionably a painfully boring sport, on a par (no pun intended) with golf. And, unlike the equally boring sport of baseball, it is a sport with no heritage whatsoever in this country. Furthermore, it is a sport that is played just as deftly by third-graders as by grown men.
The true explanation for American disinterest, though, is the fact soccer only rarely rewards the efforts of its players. A soccer game is basically a 90 minute volley, peppered with occasional goals that are as much a product of luck as they are of skill.
Such a concept of working for little or no reward is apparently acceptable to citizens of socialist and near-socialist nations. But, it will never fly in the USA, where we place great value on hard work and expect to achieve benefits proportionate to our efforts.
Again, the bottom line is that Americans do not care about this game of European and third world countries. They do not care about how many other human beings love the game. They do not care if the US team gets into the World Cup.
In fact, most American citizens don’t even know that the World Cup had been held in the USA. And, again, they don’t give a fat rat’s ass.
God bless the USA!
We see it.
We know it.
We say it.
SOCCER SUCKS!
The termin is ‘football’ not ’soccer’
The term is ‘football’ not ’soccer’
Those who talk shit about the world most popular sport are just threatened by it. They know it has several billion more fans than their american sports, and that gets their panties bunched up in a fit of jelousy.
So they respond back with “sawker sucks”.
It’s amazing how many people are anti-soccer. But it’s not difficult to determine the source of this trend. Of all the so called “soccer sucks” websites posted on the www one thing that you will find is that the majority of the negative comments and insults published about the sport of soccer are in fact from Americans.
Perhaps bastardizing the name of the sport by calling it soccer so that they could use the name football for their own American sport is where the problems all began. I’m sorry if I ofend any Americans with this post, as that is not my intent. However facts are facts, and this is simply my take on the matter.
Like everything else Americans do they want to be best in the worldwhen they do it. Unfortunatley Americans never really did excel in the sport of soccer and lagged in comparison the their European and South American counterparts. So in true American tradation, if you can’t beat them…bash them. Instead of increasing their skill and becoming a more competitive force through the conventional methods of practise, hard work, and disiplin, it’s much easier to try to discredit the ones who are obviously better.
They say soccer is a whimpy sport. Lets see, 90 minutes of running non-stop, getting kicked in the chins for an hour and a half, and constantly jumping up and down getting hit in the head with the ball. Not exactly what I call whimpy. When you compare that to the likes of American Football, Hockey or Baseball (hahaha Baseball) it’s not exactly less physically demanding.
Hockey, a player who gets 20 minutes of ice time per game is considered a work horse. They play for 4 or 5 minutes then sit for 10 minutes.
American Football, very demanding. BUt when you get a break every 15 minutes and it takes 2-3 minutes between plays when they are on the field, that is hardly physically demanding. Sure they get knocked around and tackled, but with all the equipment they wear it’s not as bad as it looks. (AMerican Football is also a bastardized version of Rugby) They took the sport of rugby, made it almost nerf-like then took the name football and made their own sport. Am I the only one who finds that Ironic?
Baseball, hahahaha enough said.
So call it what you will, but soccer is the world’s sport and the beautiful game for a reason. So the next time you see an American complain about the game of soccer don’t get upset. Just turn the other cheek and fell bad for them, because pitty is what they truly deserve. Poor little things, they want the biggest sport on earth to be theirs. That’s ok at last they have President Bush…..
Soccer is a disgrace of a sport, Australian rules football is the greatest port there is
Soccer is a disgrace of a sport, Australian rules football is the greatest port there is
Sawker is the greatest sport in the world, hence the richest and most watched sport in the world.
Sawker is UNAMERICAN!! Sawker is communist!! Americans hate SAWKER!!
I am an american and I hate those who think soccer sucks. Soccer is the poor man’s game. Almost most of the pro’s and people who play the sport are poor. For most poor people the club and country national team they support are the only koy in life. Americans think it is a rich sport because of rich suburban spoiled rich kids who think soccer is a sport where thay don’t get hurt.
Also they don’t like soccer because immigrants play it the most. Most yanks hate immigrants because they are arrogant and stupid. If it’s not anglo-saxon it’s no good. Also its funny to see fat unathletic people in baseball and most in american football to be called athletes. I just laugh when people say baseball and amercian football are world champions.
The World Cup is a truly international event. It is bigger than the Olympics. Also, its bigger than the super bowl, NBA finals, and world series put together. Football players are one of the most recognized people in the world and the entire planet watches the sport except the USA.
Futbol is the best sport and it will always stay that way.
Vamos Xeneixes
Soccer is a sport??!!??!! When did this happen?
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