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So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
The speed and flow of movement, the touch and control required, the combination of ground and aerial play, the difficulty of scoring, which builds expectation, and the frequent mistakes which add to the emotional rollercoaster effect.
The fake injuries and flops makes this game unwatchable.
No, they provide an element of comedy and hissable villains.
I suppose it's because most of these countries are poor so the kids can't afford to play real sports like hockey or football.
No, we find those sports tedious. In the 1980s UK Channel 4 got the rights to show gridiron. The ratings were huge -- for the first week. After that nobody watched because they'd found out how stoppy-and-starty and grindingly unspontaneous and depressing it was. Nowhere near as good as watching clumsy builders putting a house up very slowly and encountering dull technical problems.
Always thought soccer is popular because it is extremely cheap to play it, easy to play anywhere, and almost anyone can excel at it (tall, small, big, thin don’t matter) shrug.
Always thought soccer is popular because it is extremely cheap to play it, easy to play anywhere.
I've always assumed it was mostly this.
I'm a sports fan, and rank soccer in the running for most boring sport. Used to play it everyday in elementary school, for exactly the reasons that it was very easy to play, got a ball and 2 goals?
Hockey is basically the same idea but much faster and more exciting.
American Football is also pretty dumb IMO, but for a different reason. Anybody not being paid big money to play is out of their mind to play it. It's just completely unsafe. Letting your kids play full contact football is questionable parenting at best.
Why is soccer so popular? The fake injuries and flops makes this game unwatchable.
I suppose it's because most of these countries are poor so the kids can't afford to play real sports like hockey or football.
I think it was Ann Coulter who years ago wrote an amusing article basically making this point.
Always thought soccer is popular because it is extremely cheap to play it, easy to play anywhere, and almost anyone can excel at it (tall, small, big, thin don’t matter) shrug.
yup and the british empire
sports were not a thing until modern times - so they were largely introduced by the brits
by far the most accessible game they had was soccer - it's simple to play, easy rules to follow and understand, can easily be played casually without refs and with a smaller set of people, requires just a ball and some empty space, and doesn't require any special training etc anyone just jump in and start playing having never played before - there's a reason why it's by far the most common game in america if you only look at youth sports despite that it largely disapears once kids are old enough to be capable to "advance" to the other sports
polo requires horses
rugby requires medical facilities
cricket requires a weekend of free time
etc etc etc
in fact since most recreation was on horseback - it's called football not because you kick the ball with your feet but rather it's a generic term for any game not played on horseback
it's football like foot soldier
Could just run around with mallets. Like those idiots that play quidditch.
ie soccer is the abbreviation of association
and soccer or "football" are just shorthand for association football
as again, football is just a generic word so it needs "association" in front of it to have any real meaning
there's a good dozen different sports all with the name football in it
and soccer was by far the most commonly used word for it for most of its history - it wasn't until soccer began to get popular in the us that the brits literally rebranded it using a new word to unamericanize it
so it's peak cuck whenever an american calls it football and says that's the real word for it
so it's peak cuck whenever an american calls it football and says that's the real word for it
I'm always amused when articles in American media about soccer use British terms and usage in the report.
Why is soccer so popular? The fake injuries and flops makes this game unwatchable.
I suppose it's because most of these countries are poor so the kids can't afford to play real sports like hockey or football.
Shoo, you silly little troll.
yup and the british empiresports were not a thing until modern times - so they were largely introduced by the britsby far the most accessible game they had was soccer - it's simple to play, easy rules to follow and understand, can easily be played casually without refs and with a smaller set of people, requires just a ball and some empty space, and doesn't require any special t
lol
I'm always amused when articles in American media about soccer use British terms and usage in the report.
yeah the mls drives me crazy
in europe, when they have names like ac/fc/real/sporting/etc it's tied to an actual history
this team started as a club 150 years ago playing other teams no different from a beer league today and from there progressed into the global behemoth it is today
so when a team has "united" in their name like Manchester United it's done to indicate that the squad is the result of a merger of two or more other teams
likewise ac stands for athletic club - meaning they were an organization that played a variety of sports - in portugal this is designated using "sporting"
having "real" in the title means they were granted special status from the king
so all those teams with prefixes, suffixes, and other acronyms have it not as part of "let's have a cool name" but rather it's a nod to their history
you know sheffield wednesday was originally a team comprised of factory workers who used their halfday on wednesday to play games and sheffield united was formed in order to give members of the sheffield united cricket club (which was called united to reflect a merger of several clubs into one) a game to play during the winter months
so those names all have historical meaning
but then in cuck city usa we launch the mls and go "we want to sound soccery" so we chose the disgusting path of blindly adopting that naming convention despite that there's no rhyme or reason behind it
22 teams use FC or some variant in their name
only 8 teams have non sycophantic names
Columbus Crew
New York Red Bulls
Portland Timbers
Colorado Rapids
LA Galaxy
New England Revolution
Philadelphia Union (sounds like its more sycophantism but union here is a nod to being the 1st capital)
San Jose Earthquakes
some teams are extra awful - using not one but two bits of nonsense
Minnesota United FC
Houston Dynamo FC
Inter Miami CF
St Louis City SC
just sad sick stuff - this is the real problem doge should have focused on canceling
Same here. But at the competitive level you need that stuff. (Unless you're playing flag football.)
You should watch rugby .
