USA only country in the world where life does not come to a halt when it's soccer team plays in WC

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Anonymous wrote:I have participated in several sports on competitive teams. Wrestling requires the most conditioning (based on my experience), then American football, followed by competitive distance running, then soccer (I was a center midfielder.)

Le Hogwash.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly most people in the USA are not even aware the USA team has a game later today.
A game in the most popular sport in the entire world.
Billions will be watching it around the world.

Meanwhile in the USA most people will not be watching. Life goes on. Nobody cares.

People in the US are too wrapped up in the rat race here.

If the sport being played was one that Americans cared about they would watch. Plenty of people will be watching in the middle of the day on a random Thursday in march for the first round of the tournament

Most will be watching from their computers at work!

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I don't understand why this is sad. It's okay that Americans don't love the exact same sports as everyone else in the world.

I am far from a US apologist and there are lots of things about other countries I think we could stand to emulate (parliamentary politics, universal healthcare, better corporate oversight, more awareness of and efforts to do something about climate change), but I could care less whether Americans are into World Cup soccer. I personally prefer American football and baseball to soccer. I can admire the athleticism of soccer players but the game itself isn't that engaging to me. I also don't love hockey, which I think has a similar type of play, with lots of constantly shifting possessions and action but relatively few shots on goal and even fewer actual scores. It just doesn't hold my interest unless it's a very high stakes game.

Baseball is the most boring sport in the world. In fact, it was the least attended sport at the Summer Olympics in Athens and was removed from the Olympics.
In American football, half the athletes are overweight and it’s an ugly, aggressive, violent sport. Cheering on young people getting continuous concussions is frankly barbaric. It reminds me of the movie Gladiator.
I much prefer soccer, and thankfully so does the world at large.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I don't understand why this is sad. It's okay that Americans don't love the exact same sports as everyone else in the world.

I am far from a US apologist and there are lots of things about other countries I think we could stand to emulate (parliamentary politics, universal healthcare, better corporate oversight, more awareness of and efforts to do something about climate change), but I could care less whether Americans are into World Cup soccer. I personally prefer American football and baseball to soccer. I can admire the athleticism of soccer players but the game itself isn't that engaging to me. I also don't love hockey, which I think has a similar type of play, with lots of constantly shifting possessions and action but relatively few shots on goal and even fewer actual scores. It just doesn't hold my interest unless it's a very high stakes game.

Baseball is the most boring sport in the world. In fact, it was the least attended sport at the Summer Olympics in Athens and was removed from the Olympics.
In American football, half the athletes are overweight and it’s an ugly, aggressive, violent sport. Cheering on young people getting continuous concussions is frankly barbaric. It reminds me of the movie Gladiator.
I much prefer soccer, and thankfully so does the world at large.

Enjoy your ties and low scoring!

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Anonymous wrote:It’s terrible to watch - and not what Americans like to watch. Soccer is now dominated by grown men pretending to be hurt. Americans like toughness- hockey fights, football tackles, etc. Nothing masculine about pretending to be hurt. I just can’t watch.

Incel needs to go back to mom's basement. You know nothing about the sport.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly most people in the USA are not even aware the USA team has a game later today.
A game in the most popular sport in the entire world.
Billions will be watching it around the world.

Meanwhile in the USA most people will not be watching. Life goes on. Nobody cares.

People in the US are too wrapped up in the rat race here.

If the sport being played was one that Americans cared about they would watch. Plenty of people will be watching in the middle of the day on a random Thursday in march for the first round of the tournament

Most will be watching from their computers at work!

I believe that we will

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I believe that we will win.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol

College Basketball and Football season always takes priority. I would rather watch reruns of the 2002 Terps season than a world cup match

Looking for the vomit emoji.

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For once Americans sound more normal than the rest of the world!

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I'm disappointed that the USA team even went, they should have boycotted due to the horrible slave labor like work conditions and women rights in Qatar.

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This whole argument is ridiculous. That most other countries in the world watch it does not make them superior. Neither does the US relative lack of interest make it superior. I either do or do not watch it, and that’s the best way.

The one point I will agree with is that US child travel soccer is ridiculous and it’s about separating parents from their money,

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Anonymous wrote:I'm disappointed that the USA team even went, they should have boycotted due to the horrible slave labor like work conditions and women rights in Qatar.

Ahhh the double standards from western moralists. Maybe the world should boycott any international sporting events held by the USA for I dunno, all of the deaths from guns that are a violation of human rights, US interference in the Middle East causing over a million deaths, US interference in Indonesia that led to a million deaths, US bombs in Laos that kill children to this day.....the list will go on.

Heck, Europe shouldn't be off the hook either. Belgium has never apologized for killing a million in Africa and cutting off the hands of many Africans. Spain, France, Portugal, England,.....they're all mass oppressors who killed millions of people. The hypocrisy is really kinda astounding. Westerners lecture on lbgtq rights while they simultaneously have killed millions in the 20th century.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm disappointed that the USA team even went, they should have boycotted due to the horrible slave labor like work conditions and women rights in Qatar.

Should the US have boycotted when sporting events took place in Russia? Or China? At least Qatar is not invading other countries or engaging in ethnic cleansing.