insein
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Exactly. America can actually become a soccer star's paradise if the attitude of the general public about soccer changes. MLS is improving every year. While Basketball , NFL , Baseball reign in America soccer is always left behind.
Soccer is the King of Sports and is physically and morally more tough then other sports. As for soccer players being "cry babies" there are only a few of them.
I too have seen enough pushing , shoving and complaining in NBA games. NFL is more worst.. There is only pushing and shoving and raw brawn. No class at all. Just two teams made up of "Hulk Hogan's" passing a ball and shoving each other in the arse. Atleast in soccer it is skill and beauty that matter and not how physically strong you are. Sport is not only about physical strength but skill and soccer players in the Leagues have skill even though they do not possess the bulk of NFL players.
No wonder then Soccer is the richest , most widely followed game on the planet and holds the title of the "King of Sports".
Football, real football is the closest you can get to a representation of battle in sport. A gameplan is strategized for a whole week by each team. Then adjustments are made during battle to counter the other coaches strategy. Individuals still make all the plays happen despite the best laid strategies though. So even though a coach has a beautiful strategy on paper, it may all goto hell on gameday. And your telling me that the guys in the NFL don't have more skill then the pansies in soccer leagues? Ladanian Tomlinson would mop the floor with any soccer pro at their own game if he chose to take up the weak game but he became a football player. Brian Westbrook, Tiki Barber, Marshall Faulk in his prime, all would destroy in soccer if they played it instead of football. They are pure athletes. They could play any sport but they chose to play football, the sport of the People. Screw the kings. Who wants to play their sport anyway?
Soccer is more of an improvisational sport. I'm sure they practice some sort of scheme to stay in but for the most part the only organization and strategy is where the players stand. That is lame. It doesnt attack an enemy through the air to test their defenses or pound it directly at them to demoralize their players. Its passing, nonstop till the other team gets bored enough to let you get by them and get a shot off. Then you have to get it by the suprisingly still awake goal tender who may see a total of 5 shots a game.
90 plus minutes of absolute boredom. Great sport to play. Gets good exercise. No actually team effort required. No sense of accomplishment after a game. No feeling of complete victory after a 1-0 win or even a tie. Their might be a sense of futile loss after a 0-0 tie or a 0-1 loss. But its more the feeling of "why did i just waste 90 minutes of my life when this is the outcome?"
Basically don't compare football to soccer. Football wins everytime. The world loves soccer? Then the world can keep it. America loves Football.