Soccer is inherently Un-American

[August West]

I feel the same about baseball. I'd rather watch paint dry.

All baseball positions are skill positions. Unlike football, you won`t see lard butts bumping bellies and tugging on each other`s shirts.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Soccer is an ugly game

No such word.

 

[Meathead]

You wouldnt last 5 minutes in a soccer game. Its the most popular game in the world.

True. I find it hard to watch more than 5 minutes of a soccor game.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

True. I find it hard to watch more than 5 minutes of a soccor game.

Try as l might, and l’ve tried, l cannot understand American “football”.

 

[Deadstick]

True. I find it hard to watch more than 5 minutes of a soccor game.

Well you don't have a choice with American football because play seems to last seconds before there is break in play the whole circus is stop start.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Football in colonial America was a chaotic, often violent, and strictly unregulated pastime heavily derived from traditional English "mob football." Played mostly by young men and boys on village greens and public streets, games involved dozens of participants fighting over an inflated animal bladder with no set rules or boundaries. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

 

[Deadstick]

Football in colonial America was a chaotic, often violent, and strictly unregulated pastime heavily derived from traditional English "mob football." Played mostly by young men and boys on village greens and public streets, games involved dozens of participants fighting over an inflated animal bladder with no set rules or boundaries. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

They still play it in this Town and have for 800 years, looks like a organised riot.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

 

[ShahdagMountains]

 

[egp320i]

Soccer is the metric system of sports. The professionals are crybabies who fake injuries and just generally act gay as a required part of the sport.

While we should encourage this effeminate sport in the rest of the world in order to weaken them, we should not look at its spread into our great nation as anything other than an embodiment of failure.

It is a boring game with Budlite written all over it. The sport should be boycotted throughout our land and perhaps banned for the good of the children. Maybe let girls play as they seem more dogged.

American boys should grow up playing football for toughness and baseball for hand eye coordination. I suppose basketball should be there as well. Soccer...never. It is for foreigners.

Let's face it....Any sport that can go for 90 minutes and end in a 0-0 tie is, well, just odd.

On average, approximately 20-30% of professional soccer matches end in a tie.

Americans want a winner at the end of a contest and we don't even like NFL games ending in a tie.

I played soccer as a kid, it was fun.......I did not get paid 50M a year to kick a ball around which is absurd

yes, candy ass players always seem to get hurt

no tackle like football, baseball most injuries are pitchers with arm issues

hockey players lose a tooth and get banged up and they are out on their next shift

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The American soccer system is as terrible as Italy’s

America loves winners, out National team doesn’t develop players

When Italy failed to make World Cup 2 sessions ago (this is the third consecutive time they failed to qualify) they hired former star striker Roberto Biaggio to head up the organization and analyze their issues. He took the challenge seriously and wrote a 900 page report.

His recommendations were ignored, He quit

Italy missed the next 2 qualifiers

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I played soccer as a kid, it was fun.......I did not get paid 50M a year to kick a ball around which is absurd

yes, candy ass players always seem to get hurt

no tackle like football, baseball most injuries are pitchers with arm issues

hockey players lose a tooth and get banged up and they are out on their next shift

Yeah that’s the dig against soccer players. Rangers vs Flyers Ron Flockhart takes a stick to the face and bled all over the ice. He goes off to the lockers, stitched up and is back a few shifts later.

Neymar hit by a gust of wind and lays on the floor in agony

In 2014, I think, he actually gets badly injured, career threatening injury and it’s hard to tell he’s truly hurt

 

[Hafar1014]

True. I find it hard to watch more than 5 minutes of a soccor game.

You need to understand the game and its the most popular game in the world

 

[egp320i]

You need to understand the game and its the most popular game in the world

because it's played in oh 40 different countries perhaps why is so popular

UK, across the EU, middle east, india.......yeah, brilliant

why is lacrosse not popular around the world.....it's a native game only in the NE area

logical..........!!!

I graduated HS in the NE area, we had the best lacrosse team, I was good friends with their best player
who also was the star RB on our football team.......yeah good times, good parties, nice to be on the "in" crowd

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Lacrosse is a game played by girls in posh English boarding schools.