If Bevis and Butt-Head say "Soccer Sucks", good nuff for me.
The reason I think it suck is because over half the games are ties. I know the appeal is for folks who are non sports fans, they can put it on in the background, talk about liberal agendas, and not miss much.
I played 14yrs worth of soccer, it's a rough game but watching the "pros" flop when someone breathes on them pisses me off. I also played football OL/DL and while soccer would never rank as highly in my opinion as football it is certainly a real sport.
A truly schitty sport is baseball. Nothing like 1 guy throwing, 1 guy swinging and 30 more guys watching those 2. There is a lot of strategy in baseball too. Hit it here so these guys might not catch it, lol.
Flopping is one of the most often stated reasons Americans don't watch soccer.
The MLS has been trying to do something about it via the refs. It's working. The sport fan base in America is growing.
I've attempted to watch it a little,just to see what all the hype is about. From what I see they need to take about half the people off the field, give them some room to move. I guess it depends on what your used to. If your used to watching soccer it probably seems exciting. If your Canadian and grew up watching and playing hockey, it seems ridiculously slow paced and boring.
I've attempted to watch it a little,just to see what all the hype is about. From what I see they need to take about half the people off the field, give them some room to move. I guess it depends on what your used to. If your used to watching soccer it probably seems exciting. If your Canadian and grew up watching and playing hockey, it seems ridiculously slow paced and boring.
Same number of players as (American) football and a bigger field.
Less than 2X the number of players as hockey and a field about 10X the size.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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I've attempted to watch it a little,just to see what all the hype is about. From what I see they need to take about half the people off the field, give them some room to move. I guess it depends on what your used to. If your used to watching soccer it probably seems exciting. If your Canadian and grew up watching and playing hockey, it seems ridiculously slow paced and boring.
Same number of players as (American) football and a bigger field.
Less than 2X the number of players as hockey and a field about 10X the size.
Ok fine, leave the number of players the same but let the players tackle each other so the guy with the ball can actually do something! There's gotta be some way to make it exciting, one would think. Hockey and football allow hitting to open up room, whereas soccer doesn't allow any contact so everyone always seems to be in the way. I didn't watch enough of it to bother counting players.
Well I for one find the theatrics of the majority of soccer players right up there with tennis players. Now as for as how the US can't compete with the rest of the world in soccer, it's very simple. If all these other third world countries had real professional sports available to all the great athlete like the US does then they too would be fielding a team of all the guys that couldn't cut it in real sports. Even with that the US soccer team is not a free-be. Just imagine though if all the great American athletes only played soccer opposed to football,baseball,hockey and whatever, they would dominate so bad no other country would let us play.
Crap! Never been a soccer fan and my 11-yr old son has never played organized soccer. He plays baseball and basketball and football. But he bought a USA soccer ball at Academy last night after he destroyed a cheap $5 Franklin ball after about a week in the backyard. And now we have to watch the USA/Portugal matchup. I'm very afraid that he's gonna get me hooked! Next thang, I'll be trying to get him to teach me the stupid stupid rules.
Constant movement and having to think on the fly is just too much for some here to handle. The keyboard athletes need a game where they have to stop and think about what they're gonna do next.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Same number of players as (American) football and a bigger field.