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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.

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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: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.

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

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.