Soccer is stupid.

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Does soccer suck?

Yes, it's more gay than Richard Simmons with a mouthful of cock.
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No, and it's called football you stupid Yank!
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Fuck that guy who thinks it's football. Football involves tackling.
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I'm too buys punching opposing fans and trampling children to answer this. And too drunk.
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Soccer is stupid.

Post by LordShaithis »

It lasts for about five hours and usually seems to end in a zero-zero tie. Maybe if this "sport" wasn't so insanely boring, the fans wouldn't all murder each other at the stadium.

I saw a World Cup game on ESPN at about three in the morning a while back, and I guess the US team was doing something other than totally sucking just then. What's funny is that most people over here are only vaguely aware that the US even has a soccer team, can't name a single player on that team, and probably didn't even know the World Cup was going on at the time.

One year or another, I'll probably pick up a three week old Sports Illustrated and find out in the back pages that the US won the World Cup and nobody really noticed.

Find a real sport.
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Post by Mr Bean »

Ahh and you prefer this to say Basketball?
Rare is it the other team wins by more than 6 and more rare is it not the first team to go is often the team to win(Drribble dribble 2 points, Change hands, Dribble Dribble 2 points, Repeat for the next 120mins..)

The reason they went 0-0 Captian Brillant is becuase its the WORLD CUP your talking about teams who have the best deffence in thier enitre country, Of course its gonna be hard to score


I don't know where you live but I sure as heck know when Korea was playing Germany and When ever the US or Italiy playide my work was jam packed with people watching the TVs, Managment had to relent when a certian Adminstrator removed a certain site that allowed the cup to be watch via, streaming on your computer :D

Football(Soccer 8) ) is a great game to watch most of the time and a great sport to play

Though it was funny to watch the Italy Korea game, 21/22s of the stadedium was pure Red shirst and then in this tiny stop was roughly fifty people wearing Italy's colors competly surronded in a sea of red :D

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Football is a brilliant game to play but I only watch important matches since watching any sport for me is dull and lazy.

I have heard that many people in the US hate "soccer" because the scores are too low unlike baseball and basketball. Well I guess we still have you licked since cricket has scores far higher than any of those games. 8) :wink:
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Being from the United States, I'm really not into soccer. But I must say, those soccer riots look like a shit load of fun!
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Being a Russian, I share my country's passion for football (or soccer if you wish). Unfortunately, even though we've been playing for nearly a hundred years now, we still suck at it. :D
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USAF Ace wrote:But I must say, those soccer riots look like a shit load of fun!
they are, they are, unless you're in one. one part of the sport that's best viewed from a far

and American football sucks, play rugby, much more fun.
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Blah soccer/football is cool. Way better then baseball.
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--Well I personally like soccer better than every U.S. sport except football.
--Being in research at university (which is staffed with mostly people who came from outside the U.S.) I'm in a position to comment on soccer and how people from around the world view our stance on it. Basically, there appear to be two trains of thought. The first is that Americans are a bunch of idiots that have to make up their own sport so they can always win, "World Series" indeed! The second is "Shhhhh, the Americans might discover soccer and get good at it!!!!"
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Post by C.S.Strowbridge »

Soccer's a good sport cause there's always movement. Unlike Baseball where you can spend 5 minutes watching the pitcher adjust his jock strap.

True, Soccer doesn't have much scoring but that makes each goal that much more important. Unlike Basketball where if there's not 100 scoring plays in a game it's a slow game.

I prefer Hockey, but soccers a good game too.
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American football consists of a large number of grossly large men running into other men, while a small number of thinner men try and receive the ball. Actual play takes place for about 15 seconds at most, and then there's about 4 hours of commercial breaks between each play.

In soccer, there are no commercial breaks, except at the half. There are no timeouts. There is no 10 pounds of padding. There are shin guards and the uniform. If you think soccer is a pussy sport, I challenge you to have the "manly" football players try it. They'd be heaving and puking 15 minutes into it. I've seen some brutal injuries from soccer and had plenty inflicted on myself as a goalkeeper. So, say it's boring, say you don't like it, but don't say it's for pussies.

Whether you like soccer or not, I'm sure we can all agree that Rugby players are insane.
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Durandal wrote:American football consists of a large number of grossly large men running into other men, while a small number of thinner men try and receive the ball. Actual play takes place for about 15 seconds at most, and then there's about 4 hours of commercial breaks between each play.

In soccer, there are no commercial breaks, except at the half. There are no timeouts. There is no 10 pounds of padding. There are shin guards and the uniform. If you think soccer is a pussy sport, I challenge you to have the "manly" football players try it. They'd be heaving and puking 15 minutes into it. I've seen some brutal injuries from soccer and had plenty inflicted on myself as a goalkeeper. So, say it's boring, say you don't like it, but don't say it's for pussies.

Whether you like soccer or not, I'm sure we can all agree that Rugby players are insane.
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Durandal wrote:American football consists of a large number of grossly large men running into other men, while a small number of thinner men try and receive the ball. Actual play takes place for about 15 seconds at most, and then there's about 4 hours of commercial breaks between each play.

In soccer, there are no commercial breaks, except at the half. There are no timeouts. There is no 10 pounds of padding. There are shin guards and the uniform. If you think soccer is a pussy sport, I challenge you to have the "manly" football players try it. They'd be heaving and puking 15 minutes into it. I've seen some brutal injuries from soccer and had plenty inflicted on myself as a goalkeeper. So, say it's boring, say you don't like it, but don't say it's for pussies.

Whether you like soccer or not, I'm sure we can all agree that Rugby players are insane.
I play soccer myself (Varsity in High School but hey) and I have to say that I've taken harder hits then most American Football players do and I KEEP PLAYING, as do all Soccer players....you wanna talk pussy's, talk American Football how can you like that crap?
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Little known fact: The World Series wasn't named that because it was supposed to be a world championship. It was named that because it was originally sponsored by the now-defunct New York World newspaper. Or so I hear.

Anyway, baseball, hockey, basketball, and (real) football all suck to varying degrees also. There's only one sport I give a shit about: Boxing.

It's the most direct form of competition there is, with no teams or seasons or bullshit like that, and people from pretty much every country on earth fight. Brits fight Mexicans, Russians fight Americans, everyone fights everyone else.
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Note to everyone.....American football is NOT real football, it has almost nothing to do with the foot and was created far after actual football was.
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I once heard a basketball coach deride soccer. He said that he thought it should be called "Kick". I responded by asking whether or not he thought basketball should be called "Bounce".
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SPOOFE wrote:I once heard a basketball coach deride soccer. He said that he thought it should be called "Kick". I responded by asking whether or not he thought basketball should be called "Bounce".
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soccer rules!
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GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:It lasts for about five hours and usually seems to end in a zero-zero tie. Maybe if this "sport" wasn't so insanely boring, the fans wouldn't all murder each other at the stadium.
It lasts 1.5 hrs, not five
It seldom ends with a 0-0 tie.
Fans very rarely murder themselves in the stadium. The ones who do it are called "irish"
GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote: I saw a World Cup game on ESPN at about three in the morning a while back, and I guess the US team was doing something other than totally sucking just then
How you guys won a game with Portugal I'm yet to know. Oh well, you're losing basketball games too
GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote: One year or another, I'll probably pick up a three week old Sports Illustrated and find out in the back pages that the US won the World Cup and nobody really noticed.
Impossible. Brazil rulez forever and ever. And England and Germany and Portugal and Spain
Find a real sport.
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Impossible. Brazil rulez forever and ever. And England and Germany and Portugal and Spain
er... lets say and england and germany and spain; and compare portugal with france...

MUAHAHAHAH!!!
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Go to Anfield or Old Trafford for a Liverpool V Man United fixture and experience true tension and drama (and most wonderfully of all, the joy of Liverpool winning! :D )
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Post by salm »

oh yes brazil rules.

portugal : 4 Poland : 0
portugal : 2 USA : 3
portugal : 0 south korea : 1


just wanted to point that out
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Germany 0 : 2 Brazil

Game over, you lose
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hte problem with soccer other than being more gay than richard simons with a mouth full of cock, is that there is no strategy to the game. Its completely tactical. Everyone does the same dam thing. If you have better players al around on you team, there is virtually no chance that you will lose. Football, is a strategic sport as much as it is tactical. positioning of players, a field of battle, differing moves, fakes, tons of stuff. Soccer you basically compete to see how many backflip kicks 1 team can do.
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Azeron wrote:hte problem with soccer other than being more gay than richard simons with a mouth full of cock, is that there is no strategy to the game. Its completely tactical. Everyone does the same dam thing. If you have better players al around on you team, there is virtually no chance that you will lose. Football, is a strategic sport as much as it is tactical. positioning of players, a field of battle, differing moves, fakes, tons of stuff. Soccer you basically compete to see how many backflip kicks 1 team can do.
Well, Az, you obviously don't understand a thing about football. So stop making a fool out of yourself. Christ's sake, saying footbal has no tactic, that's even worse than claiming E.U is communist.

I won't even debate this.
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