RIP: Soccer

[efstratios1]

Originally Posted by dancin'_mark

here's a little bedtime reading for you guys, the FIFA WORLD RANKINGS

Good job, we already covered that the FIFA rankings mean squat. lol

[Matt The Hammer]

I'm bored with this thread already.

Everyone can make points that soccer is the world's sport until their fingers bleed from madly typing about this team in a 3rd world country or that player on a club who makes millions in sponsors.

Fact is- Soccer is dead in America.

I think the ignorance lies in the people who don't get this simple fact.

Jim Bob - pretty cool that you have a radio show. Good luck with it.

[Matt The Hammer]

Originally Posted by dancin'_mark

there is no debate whether soccer is a great sport. Matt The Hammer should stick to watching nascar and eating his big mac, because he can't seem to figure out what a real sport is.

I think I wrote this:

"I don't hate the game. I hate the repeated failed attempts to make us care about it."

You have the worst avitar too.

Oh, yeah, the timezone thing. Funny because there is NO SOCCER in this country worth watching. That was my EXACT point.

[Matt The Hammer]

Originally Posted by leaferguy

Ignorance was never a good argument.

Much of the rest of the world disagrees with you, BTW. Even a few of the hockey players you watch disagree with you...

Again, the world. Not my point.

Good try though.

[Matt The Hammer]

Originally Posted by Jim Bob

A few weeks ago I saw Ronaldinho score on a PK for Barcelona vs Real Madrid live just before I left to do my radio show that's dedicated to soccer.

Yeah... I just watched a professional bowler hit a 7-10 split last night before I went to the gym. Same thing... Well... I would say hitting the 7-10 split is much harder.

Originally Posted by Jim Bob

Club soccer is pro soccer. The US has three pro club leagues (MLS, USL 1st Division, and USL 2nd Division).

I was only kidding. But thanks for the break down of "pro" soccer.

[Netminda32]

Originally Posted by efstratios1

I'd take soccer over baseball any day of the week...but I'm a Euro.

Absolutely agree. Watching baseball is as exciting as watching grass grow. (Admittedly, not too terrible live, but absolutely mind-numbingly dull on TV)

-- George.

[Matt The Hammer]

This is a direct shot at "American" soccer fans (judging from the average fan at a MLS game):

During the 1990s, an average of more than 1.3 million immigrants — legal and illegal — settled in the United States each year. Between January 2000 and March 2002, 3.3 million additional immigrants have arrived. In less than 50 years, the U.S. Census Bureau projects that immigration will cause the population of the United States to increase from its present 288 million to more than 400 million.

The foreign-born population of the United States is currently 33.1 million, equal to 11.5 percent of the U.S. population. Of this total, the Census Bureau estimates 8-9 million are illegal immigrants. Other estimates indicate a considerably higher number of illegal immigrants.

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So how many registered ManU fans again? 4.2 million?

ha ha ha

[Moore00]

You sound exactly like the sports reporters on ESPN (on shows like PTI, Cold Pizza, etc...) when they start to talk hockey. Retarded.

Matt, Soccer isn't dead in the US. It's just not that popular of a sport to watch. Soccer leagues thrive all across America. A good majority of kids grow up playing soccer in this country for at least a couple years.

And anyways, who really is shoving it down your throat anyways? You claim soccer is never on TV, noone plays, but somehow it's being shoved down your throat? Maybe I'm missing something but I almost never hear about it.

Thanks for continuing the stupid American stereotype.

[efstratios1]

He's "bored" of this thread now because he was made to look like a total ass when he was trying to sound all informative and witty.

I think you should stop before you join fusion and dancing mark in the "guys we pick on" club.

[Mrgoalie]

Originally Posted by Moore00

You sound exactly like the sports reporters on ESPN (on shows like PTI, Cold Pizza, etc...) when they start to talk hockey. Retarded..

/clap/clap/clap

[fish taco]

I dislike the usa's views on sports. I pick hockey over every other sport. I pick soccer over baseball, rugby over football, f1 over nascar, and i hate basketball. I always find myself wishing that I could do all of those cool moves in soccer.
this is some pretty cool stuff.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...14181&q=soccer

[leaferguy]

Originally Posted by Matt The Hammer

Again, the world. Not my point.

Good try though.

Hey, look around. The U.S. is... get ready... part of the world! WOW!

U.S. Soccer is huge with the younger age group. It will catch on further as the kids who are playing now get older. You can be as ignorant as you want, but it doesn't change facts. Oh, and in case you "argue" that you never said anything about its future popularity:

Originally Posted by Matt the Hammer

When will people finally see that soccer will never catch on in America? Soccer, like the Metric System, has been forced to us for years.

Also, having gone to enough ballgames in my lifetime, they're not defacing much

Nice try, though!

[jf-laflaire]

Soccer is more popular in the US then hockey. No question.

When I was much younger I was offered a scholarship to play soccer in the US. At that time the MLS was in its infancy and playing soccer as a pro on this side of the ocean was a one way ticket to poverty.

Things are changing. I guess the top clubs in Europe are recruiting over here now.

There are so many schools offering kids scholarships for soccer. These schools train too, the kids improve and its seen at the national team level. The US can play this game and its the country knows it too. They got the funding and the populace to do it.

As for me, I'm hoping "gli Azzurri" can pull it off, I'd bet Lunquist's house on it, but not mine. Who cares who wins, its about football and playing hard. I wanna see some nice saves, great goals and so on.

Oh, BTW, Buffon is my favorite player. I think Italy's chances will depend on whether he steals it for us.

I admit soccer is slow, but so are the other sports. I always felt that if they went to 10 men on 10 men the game would move alot faster...

[leaferguy]

Originally Posted by jf-laflaire

Things are changing. I guess the top clubs in Europe are recruiting over here now.

Clint Mathis got sent home

[puckpatrol43]

Soccer is real football.