Boycotting the World Cup

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Anonymous wrote:Soccer is boring. Football isn’t. Ticket sales tells you all you need to know

American soccer is equivalent to lower leagues in Europe. Every time Premier League teams come to America they sell out football stadiums. I love football, but there’s A LOT of downtime in a game. That’s boring.

The funny thing is, imagine if soccer were even a tier 2 sport in America. Imagine how the US would dominate the world. I mean it's pretty impressive the US can even field a decently ranked national team every year when literally the top 50% of American athletes are playing other sports.

The funny thing is that “tier 2” USMNT and D1 soccer athletes are included in the top 50% of American athletes. You can try to disprove it, but when you consider VO2 max, BMI, HRV, RSI, plus movement and load metrics it’s incontrovertible. Top athletes compete for more than 8 seconds at a time with the luxury of recovery time after each play.

You read that wrong. Soccer is tier 3. Behind the major team sports and then the individual sports. There's no way the top athletes are playing soccer. No one in America would choose to play soccer if they excelled in basketball or baseball. Football is a little different because of the violent nature of it but college and pro football players are elite, nevertheless. You load a bunch of biometric stats that are required to play soccer but there's no way that 11 people among people like Lebron, Kyrie, Ant Man, the Ball brothers, or any of the top 30 NFL receivers and running backs wouldn't have dominated in soccer. American athletes are just just bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than athletes in other countries. And if America really cared about soccer and was invested in it, we could literally just buy the best players and give them a passport to fill in any gaps like other countries do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:America certainly has the athletes to be competitive in any sport. But the reason why we don't compete in soccer is because of the culture. It's terrible at every level. Almost no good athlete chooses soccer today.

This hot take brought to you by a dad with pudgy kids that is incapable of understanding what the metrics of being a “good athlete” are?

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Anonymous wrote:Soccer is boring. Football isn’t. Ticket sales tells you all you need to know

American soccer is equivalent to lower leagues in Europe. Every time Premier League teams come to America they sell out football stadiums. I love football, but there’s A LOT of downtime in a game. That’s boring.

The funny thing is, imagine if soccer were even a tier 2 sport in America. Imagine how the US would dominate the world. I mean it's pretty impressive the US can even field a decently ranked national team every year when literally the top 50% of American athletes are playing other sports.

The funny thing is that “tier 2” USMNT and D1 soccer athletes are included in the top 50% of American athletes. You can try to disprove it, but when you consider VO2 max, BMI, HRV, RSI, plus movement and load metrics it’s incontrovertible. Top athletes compete for more than 8 seconds at a time with the luxury of recovery time after each play.

You read that wrong. Soccer is tier 3. Behind the major team sports and then the individual sports. There's no way the top athletes are playing soccer. No one in America would choose to play soccer if they excelled in basketball or baseball. Football is a little different because of the violent nature of it but college and pro football players are elite, nevertheless. You load a bunch of biometric stats that are required to play soccer but there's no way that 11 people among people like Lebron, Kyrie, Ant Man, the Ball brothers, or any of the top 30 NFL receivers and running backs wouldn't have dominated in soccer. American athletes are just just bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than athletes in other countries. And if America really cared about soccer and was invested in it, we could literally just buy the best players and give them a passport to fill in any gaps like other countries do.

Baseball? BWAAHAHAHAHAH! That’s a fat kid sport. My soccer players were excellent baseball players. They’d eat 2-3 hotdogs right before games because they never got any exercise while playing.

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Anonymous wrote:Soccer is boring. Football isn’t. Ticket sales tells you all you need to know

American soccer is equivalent to lower leagues in Europe. Every time Premier League teams come to America they sell out football stadiums. I love football, but there’s A LOT of downtime in a game. That’s boring.

The funny thing is, imagine if soccer were even a tier 2 sport in America. Imagine how the US would dominate the world. I mean it's pretty impressive the US can even field a decently ranked national team every year when literally the top 50% of American athletes are playing other sports.

The funny thing is that “tier 2” USMNT and D1 soccer athletes are included in the top 50% of American athletes. You can try to disprove it, but when you consider VO2 max, BMI, HRV, RSI, plus movement and load metrics it’s incontrovertible. Top athletes compete for more than 8 seconds at a time with the luxury of recovery time after each play.

You read that wrong. Soccer is tier 3. Behind the major team sports and then the individual sports. There's no way the top athletes are playing soccer. No one in America would choose to play soccer if they excelled in basketball or baseball. Football is a little different because of the violent nature of it but college and pro football players are elite, nevertheless. You load a bunch of biometric stats that are required to play soccer but there's no way that 11 people among people like Lebron, Kyrie, Ant Man, the Ball brothers, or any of the top 30 NFL receivers and running backs wouldn't have dominated in soccer. American athletes are just just bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than athletes in other countries. And if America really cared about soccer and was invested in it, we could literally just buy the best players and give them a passport to fill in any gaps like other countries do.

Baseball? BWAAHAHAHAHAH! That’s a fat kid sport. My soccer players were excellent baseball players. They’d eat 2-3 hotdogs right before games because they never got any exercise while playing.

Apparently not good enough to get drafted. 10/10 kids would choose baseball if they excelled (i.e., hs drafted or D1 scholarship) at it over soccer unless they were the unicorn prodigy in soccer.

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Anonymous wrote:Soccer is boring. Football isn’t. Ticket sales tells you all you need to know

American soccer is equivalent to lower leagues in Europe. Every time Premier League teams come to America they sell out football stadiums. I love football, but there’s A LOT of downtime in a game. That’s boring.

The funny thing is, imagine if soccer were even a tier 2 sport in America. Imagine how the US would dominate the world. I mean it's pretty impressive the US can even field a decently ranked national team every year when literally the top 50% of American athletes are playing other sports.

The funny thing is that “tier 2” USMNT and D1 soccer athletes are included in the top 50% of American athletes. You can try to disprove it, but when you consider VO2 max, BMI, HRV, RSI, plus movement and load metrics it’s incontrovertible. Top athletes compete for more than 8 seconds at a time with the luxury of recovery time after each play.

You read that wrong. Soccer is tier 3. Behind the major team sports and then the individual sports. There's no way the top athletes are playing soccer. No one in America would choose to play soccer if they excelled in basketball or baseball. Football is a little different because of the violent nature of it but college and pro football players are elite, nevertheless. You load a bunch of biometric stats that are required to play soccer but there's no way that 11 people among people like Lebron, Kyrie, Ant Man, the Ball brothers, or any of the top 30 NFL receivers and running backs wouldn't have dominated in soccer. American athletes are just just bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than athletes in other countries. And if America really cared about soccer and was invested in it, we could literally just buy the best players and give them a passport to fill in any gaps like other countries do.

Baseball? BWAAHAHAHAHAH! That’s a fat kid sport. My soccer players were excellent baseball players. They’d eat 2-3 hotdogs right before games because they never got any exercise while playing.

Apparently not good enough to get drafted. 10/10 kids would choose baseball if they excelled (i.e., hs drafted or D1 scholarship) at it over soccer unless they were the unicorn prodigy in soccer.

They quit baseball early. It’s the most boring game on the planet. Curling is more compelling. The MLB needs to bring steroids back to make it more entertaining.

The World Cup will shove baseball aside in the U.S. for two months this summer. One of the World Cup semifinal matches is on the same day as the MLB All-Star Game. Soccer is on at 3pm while the All-Star Game is in prime time. The soccer ratings will crush the baseball ratings.

[Anonymous]

FIFA is famously corrupt. Good to see a boycott. Don’t forget USTA and Rolex too.

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Anonymous wrote:FIFA is famously corrupt. Good to see a boycott. Don’t forget USTA and Rolex too.

This boycott is useless. Stadiums will be full. BTW, people are on waiting lists to buy a Rolex, so that boycott is even dumber.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect the American stadiums are going to have a tough time filling seats - especially during the early rounds. Absolutely no one on the planet wants to deal with ICE and American immigration these days. The media in every country is filled with stories of very legal tourists getting detained or expelled for no reason whatsoever. Plus Trump is universally despised. The US is not an attractive destination these days. The tourism numbers have collapsed over the past ten months.

Plus FIFA or US Soccer or whoever is responsible for ticket prices has completely overreached when it comes to ticket prices. The prices are absurd. No one is spending $4000 for a middling seat to watch Haiti-Morocco in Atlanta.

ICE won’t even be in the same states as World Cup matches in June and July. Trump isn’t dumb enough to tarnish a worldwide spectacle. He’s a businessman and this is big business.

They’ll be there. And he’s not a businessman. He put a his name on a bunch of building with money he inherited. His real estate business was inherited. Every business he started on his own failed. Every one. Let’s put that old rumor that he’s a businessman to rest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Soccer is boring. Football isn’t. Ticket sales tells you all you need to know

American soccer is equivalent to lower leagues in Europe. Every time Premier League teams come to America they sell out football stadiums. I love football, but there’s A LOT of downtime in a game. That’s boring.

The funny thing is, imagine if soccer were even a tier 2 sport in America. Imagine how the US would dominate the world. I mean it's pretty impressive the US can even field a decently ranked national team every year when literally the top 50% of American athletes are playing other sports.

The funny thing is that “tier 2” USMNT and D1 soccer athletes are included in the top 50% of American athletes. You can try to disprove it, but when you consider VO2 max, BMI, HRV, RSI, plus movement and load metrics it’s incontrovertible. Top athletes compete for more than 8 seconds at a time with the luxury of recovery time after each play.

You read that wrong. Soccer is tier 3. Behind the major team sports and then the individual sports. There's no way the top athletes are playing soccer. No one in America would choose to play soccer if they excelled in basketball or baseball. Football is a little different because of the violent nature of it but college and pro football players are elite, nevertheless. You load a bunch of biometric stats that are required to play soccer but there's no way that 11 people among people like Lebron, Kyrie, Ant Man, the Ball brothers, or any of the top 30 NFL receivers and running backs wouldn't have dominated in soccer. American athletes are just just bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than athletes in other countries. And if America really cared about soccer and was invested in it, we could literally just buy the best players and give them a passport to fill in any gaps like other countries do.

Baseball? BWAAHAHAHAHAH! That’s a fat kid sport. My soccer players were excellent baseball players. They’d eat 2-3 hotdogs right before games because they never got any exercise while playing.

Salary for the average American soccer player, $500,000. Salary for the average American baseball player, $5,000,000.

When Americans think of soccer they think of little kids trying to kick a ball all at the same time. It’s a beginner sport before kids have better skills to move on to other sports.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soccer is boring. Football isn’t. Ticket sales tells you all you need to know

American soccer is equivalent to lower leagues in Europe. Every time Premier League teams come to America they sell out football stadiums. I love football, but there’s A LOT of downtime in a game. That’s boring.

The funny thing is, imagine if soccer were even a tier 2 sport in America. Imagine how the US would dominate the world. I mean it's pretty impressive the US can even field a decently ranked national team every year when literally the top 50% of American athletes are playing other sports.

The funny thing is that “tier 2” USMNT and D1 soccer athletes are included in the top 50% of American athletes. You can try to disprove it, but when you consider VO2 max, BMI, HRV, RSI, plus movement and load metrics it’s incontrovertible. Top athletes compete for more than 8 seconds at a time with the luxury of recovery time after each play.

You read that wrong. Soccer is tier 3. Behind the major team sports and then the individual sports. There's no way the top athletes are playing soccer. No one in America would choose to play soccer if they excelled in basketball or baseball. Football is a little different because of the violent nature of it but college and pro football players are elite, nevertheless. You load a bunch of biometric stats that are required to play soccer but there's no way that 11 people among people like Lebron, Kyrie, Ant Man, the Ball brothers, or any of the top 30 NFL receivers and running backs wouldn't have dominated in soccer. American athletes are just just bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than athletes in other countries. And if America really cared about soccer and was invested in it, we could literally just buy the best players and give them a passport to fill in any gaps like other countries do.

Baseball? BWAAHAHAHAHAH! That’s a fat kid sport. My soccer players were excellent baseball players. They’d eat 2-3 hotdogs right before games because they never got any exercise while playing.

Salary for the average American soccer player, $500,000. Salary for the average American baseball player, $5,000,000.

When Americans think of soccer they think of little kids trying to kick a ball all at the same time. It’s a beginner sport before kids have better skills to move on to other sports.

So go where the money is. That is what Dominicans, Venezuelans, etc do with baseball. Play European football. Some average salaries there.

Real Madrid: Over €11 million.
Barcelona: Around €9.1 - €9.6 million.
Manchester City & Bayern Munich: Around €8-9 million

[Anonymous]

FIDO loves Trump.
They gave me a beautiful award,
Probably the top honor in the world for soccah,
It's probably the top honor in the world for soccah.

They also call it football.
Because it's played with feet, from a standpoint of foot.

Notta lotta people know that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Soccer is boring. Football isn’t. Ticket sales tells you all you need to know

American soccer is equivalent to lower leagues in Europe. Every time Premier League teams come to America they sell out football stadiums. I love football, but there’s A LOT of downtime in a game. That’s boring.

The funny thing is, imagine if soccer were even a tier 2 sport in America. Imagine how the US would dominate the world. I mean it's pretty impressive the US can even field a decently ranked national team every year when literally the top 50% of American athletes are playing other sports.

The funny thing is that “tier 2” USMNT and D1 soccer athletes are included in the top 50% of American athletes. You can try to disprove it, but when you consider VO2 max, BMI, HRV, RSI, plus movement and load metrics it’s incontrovertible. Top athletes compete for more than 8 seconds at a time with the luxury of recovery time after each play.

You read that wrong. Soccer is tier 3. Behind the major team sports and then the individual sports. There's no way the top athletes are playing soccer. No one in America would choose to play soccer if they excelled in basketball or baseball. Football is a little different because of the violent nature of it but college and pro football players are elite, nevertheless. You load a bunch of biometric stats that are required to play soccer but there's no way that 11 people among people like Lebron, Kyrie, Ant Man, the Ball brothers, or any of the top 30 NFL receivers and running backs wouldn't have dominated in soccer. American athletes are just just bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than athletes in other countries. And if America really cared about soccer and was invested in it, we could literally just buy the best players and give them a passport to fill in any gaps like other countries do.

Baseball? BWAAHAHAHAHAH! That’s a fat kid sport. My soccer players were excellent baseball players. They’d eat 2-3 hotdogs right before games because they never got any exercise while playing.

Salary for the average American soccer player, $500,000. Salary for the average American baseball player, $5,000,000.

When Americans think of soccer they think of little kids trying to kick a ball all at the same time. It’s a beginner sport before kids have better skills to move on to other sports.

Are you conflating elite athletes with salaries? That’s a good one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Soccer is boring. Football isn’t. Ticket sales tells you all you need to know

American soccer is equivalent to lower leagues in Europe. Every time Premier League teams come to America they sell out football stadiums. I love football, but there’s A LOT of downtime in a game. That’s boring.

The funny thing is, imagine if soccer were even a tier 2 sport in America. Imagine how the US would dominate the world. I mean it's pretty impressive the US can even field a decently ranked national team every year when literally the top 50% of American athletes are playing other sports.

The funny thing is that “tier 2” USMNT and D1 soccer athletes are included in the top 50% of American athletes. You can try to disprove it, but when you consider VO2 max, BMI, HRV, RSI, plus movement and load metrics it’s incontrovertible. Top athletes compete for more than 8 seconds at a time with the luxury of recovery time after each play.

You read that wrong. Soccer is tier 3. Behind the major team sports and then the individual sports. There's no way the top athletes are playing soccer. No one in America would choose to play soccer if they excelled in basketball or baseball. Football is a little different because of the violent nature of it but college and pro football players are elite, nevertheless. You load a bunch of biometric stats that are required to play soccer but there's no way that 11 people among people like Lebron, Kyrie, Ant Man, the Ball brothers, or any of the top 30 NFL receivers and running backs wouldn't have dominated in soccer. American athletes are just just bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than athletes in other countries. And if America really cared about soccer and was invested in it, we could literally just buy the best players and give them a passport to fill in any gaps like other countries do.

Baseball? BWAAHAHAHAHAH! That’s a fat kid sport. My soccer players were excellent baseball players. They’d eat 2-3 hotdogs right before games because they never got any exercise while playing.

Apparently not good enough to get drafted. 10/10 kids would choose baseball if they excelled (i.e., hs drafted or D1 scholarship) at it over soccer unless they were the unicorn prodigy in soccer.

They quit baseball early. It’s the most boring game on the planet. Curling is more compelling. The MLB needs to bring steroids back to make it more entertaining.

The World Cup will shove baseball aside in the U.S. for two months this summer. One of the World Cup semifinal matches is on the same day as the MLB All-Star Game. Soccer is on at 3pm while the All-Star Game is in prime time. The soccer ratings will crush the baseball ratings.

You saying baseball is boring is meaningless. You don't understand the game. You can't follow the game without an announcer. You can't anticipate why a pitcher would throw a certain pitch according to the inning and count. You don't know what the batter is trying to do. You're the old ladies that get hit by a foul ball because they don't realize that batted balls can go anywhere. The fact is that baseball players can play other sports but people that play other sports can't play baseball. It's that hard. Ask Deion and Jordan.

Stick to simple 1D sports like soccer. Just be sure to join SAG first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:😂🤮 he paid someone to create a peace prize for him to win. Loser.

It's ok pathetic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Soccer is boring. Football isn’t. Ticket sales tells you all you need to know

American soccer is equivalent to lower leagues in Europe. Every time Premier League teams come to America they sell out football stadiums. I love football, but there’s A LOT of downtime in a game. That’s boring.

The funny thing is, imagine if soccer were even a tier 2 sport in America. Imagine how the US would dominate the world. I mean it's pretty impressive the US can even field a decently ranked national team every year when literally the top 50% of American athletes are playing other sports.

The funny thing is that “tier 2” USMNT and D1 soccer athletes are included in the top 50% of American athletes. You can try to disprove it, but when you consider VO2 max, BMI, HRV, RSI, plus movement and load metrics it’s incontrovertible. Top athletes compete for more than 8 seconds at a time with the luxury of recovery time after each play.

You read that wrong. Soccer is tier 3. Behind the major team sports and then the individual sports. There's no way the top athletes are playing soccer. No one in America would choose to play soccer if they excelled in basketball or baseball. Football is a little different because of the violent nature of it but college and pro football players are elite, nevertheless. You load a bunch of biometric stats that are required to play soccer but there's no way that 11 people among people like Lebron, Kyrie, Ant Man, the Ball brothers, or any of the top 30 NFL receivers and running backs wouldn't have dominated in soccer. American athletes are just just bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than athletes in other countries. And if America really cared about soccer and was invested in it, we could literally just buy the best players and give them a passport to fill in any gaps like other countries do.

Baseball? BWAAHAHAHAHAH! That’s a fat kid sport. My soccer players were excellent baseball players. They’d eat 2-3 hotdogs right before games because they never got any exercise while playing.

Apparently not good enough to get drafted. 10/10 kids would choose baseball if they excelled (i.e., hs drafted or D1 scholarship) at it over soccer unless they were the unicorn prodigy in soccer.

They quit baseball early. It’s the most boring game on the planet. Curling is more compelling. The MLB needs to bring steroids back to make it more entertaining.

The World Cup will shove baseball aside in the U.S. for two months this summer. One of the World Cup semifinal matches is on the same day as the MLB All-Star Game. Soccer is on at 3pm while the All-Star Game is in prime time. The soccer ratings will crush the baseball ratings.

You saying baseball is boring is meaningless. You don't understand the game. You can't follow the game without an announcer. You can't anticipate why a pitcher would throw a certain pitch according to the inning and count. You don't know what the batter is trying to do. You're the old ladies that get hit by a foul ball because they don't realize that batted balls can go anywhere. The fact is that baseball players can play other sports but people that play other sports can't play baseball. It's that hard. Ask Deion and Jordan.

Stick to simple 1D sports like soccer. Just be sure to join SAG first.

You kind of have that backwards.

Both Sanders and Jordan payed other sports as their primary sports and then picked up baseball as a novelty. And neither were very good at baseball.

Yes, baseball is a tough sport to play well. Batting a ball thrown by a pro pitcher is an enormously difficult task. But face it, baseball players stand around (or sit) for the vast majority of a baseball game. Playing first base is not a great way to get cardio in.