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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.

You don’t know anything about soccer. If you did you would understand the different styles of play by different regions of the world but you are happier licking chicken juice off your fingers and watching obese men slam into each other.

I played as a young girl. I know the positions. I lived in Germany during the 2006 World Cup. I see all the excited people. It’s just boring to watch the actual game. Like watching ants, frantically scurrying around. Not much scoring. Just kicking and running. I love sports, but I’d just as soon watch bowling or tennis before I’d watch soccer.

Imagine trying to watch baseball or American football. The constant interruptions and breaks make it so boring. At least in soccer, you can drink, talk and when you do look down, someone is playing.

Just curious - is anyone else with Verizon Fios having trouble with their World Cup feed freezing? This morning, it was a big problem during the Argentina-Saudi Arabia game, so I switched to the Fox sports app.

-Soccer mom who used to think that watching soccer on TV was boring but was the only member of her family up at 5:00 a.m. to watch the exciting upset.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless you are a 7 year old girl soccer is not a sport

I know. Real sports are those where incredibly obese men dress up in tights and smash into one another, stop every 30 seconds to reset (because they cannot play a solid, continuous game), run 100+ commercials per game, and half the team cannot run 50 yards without passing out.

I get what you’re saying. But act the same time, as a PP suggested:

- Mark Andrew’s
- Travis Kelce
- Christian McCaffrey
- Aaron Donald
- Khalil Mack

All of them are superior athlete to every single soccer player in the world. That’s not a dig on soccer, it’s just the fact that some football positions require more complex aspects of fitness than soccer, based simply off the nature of the game.

I probably left out the best example: Saquon Barkley.

He could keep up with them for 90 minutes on the field. But also probably beat them in the 40 yard dash. And still squat over 600 lbs.

I know it pains you guys to hear this but: the best athlete in the world play American football

Most of the NBA could have played football. Most of the NFL wishes they played in the NBA

I'm aware and generally interested in soccer. However, I really can't muster enthusiasm for this world cup. Migrant workers were treated horribly building stadiums for it, and FIFA is threatening players who try to show solidarity for gay rights with yellow cards. Hard pass.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless you are a 7 year old girl soccer is not a sport

I know. Real sports are those where incredibly obese men dress up in tights and smash into one another, stop every 30 seconds to reset (because they cannot play a solid, continuous game), run 100+ commercials per game, and half the team cannot run 50 yards without passing out.

I get what you’re saying. But act the same time, as a PP suggested:

- Mark Andrew’s
- Travis Kelce
- Christian McCaffrey
- Aaron Donald
- Khalil Mack

All of them are superior athlete to every single soccer player in the world. That’s not a dig on soccer, it’s just the fact that some football positions require more complex aspects of fitness than soccer, based simply off the nature of the game.

I probably left out the best example: Saquon Barkley.

He could keep up with them for 90 minutes on the field. But also probably beat them in the 40 yard dash. And still squat over 600 lbs.

I know it pains you guys to hear this but: the best athlete in the world play American football

No, no he could not. He has no endurance skills.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless you are a 7 year old girl soccer is not a sport

I know. Real sports are those where incredibly obese men dress up in tights and smash into one another, stop every 30 seconds to reset (because they cannot play a solid, continuous game), run 100+ commercials per game, and half the team cannot run 50 yards without passing out.

I get what you’re saying. But act the same time, as a PP suggested:

- Mark Andrew’s
- Travis Kelce
- Christian McCaffrey
- Aaron Donald
- Khalil Mack

All of them are superior athlete to every single soccer player in the world. That’s not a dig on soccer, it’s just the fact that some football positions require more complex aspects of fitness than soccer, based simply off the nature of the game.

I probably left out the best example: Saquon Barkley.

He could keep up with them for 90 minutes on the field. But also probably beat them in the 40 yard dash. And still squat over 600 lbs.

I know it pains you guys to hear this but: the best athlete in the world play American football

Bwaaaaaa! Literally no human on the planet agrees with this - except American football nuts. Maybe 1% of football players are true athletes. The other 99% are oversized loafs with heart problems. Meanwhile, 100% of soccer players are superior athletes. There is just no competition. Sorry, Troy.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly why? We as a country can prefer other sports, nothing wrong with that. Also, pretty tone deaf post given all the controversy about the host country.

This. I can’t believe the atrocities are not all over the news. An estimated 6500 migrant workers died in Qatar getting ready for this World Cup. Horrifying.

I’m so freaking tired of being virtuous. Can’t eat this, can’t buy that, can’t watch that because of something horrible. I just wanna watch some soccer. Argentina/Saudi match this morning was great soccer even if I didn’t like the outcome. Anytime MBS is happy, I am unhappy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless you are a 7 year old girl soccer is not a sport

I know. Real sports are those where incredibly obese men dress up in tights and smash into one another, stop every 30 seconds to reset (because they cannot play a solid, continuous game), run 100+ commercials per game, and half the team cannot run 50 yards without passing out.

I get what you’re saying. But act the same time, as a PP suggested:

- Mark Andrew’s
- Travis Kelce
- Christian McCaffrey
- Aaron Donald
- Khalil Mack

All of them are superior athlete to every single soccer player in the world. That’s not a dig on soccer, it’s just the fact that some football positions require more complex aspects of fitness than soccer, based simply off the nature of the game.

I probably left out the best example: Saquon Barkley.

He could keep up with them for 90 minutes on the field. But also probably beat them in the 40 yard dash. And still squat over 600 lbs.

I know it pains you guys to hear this but: the best athlete in the world play American football

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless you are a 7 year old girl soccer is not a sport

I know. Real sports are those where incredibly obese men dress up in tights and smash into one another, stop every 30 seconds to reset (because they cannot play a solid, continuous game), run 100+ commercials per game, and half the team cannot run 50 yards without passing out.

I get what you’re saying. But act the same time, as a PP suggested:

- Mark Andrew’s
- Travis Kelce
- Christian McCaffrey
- Aaron Donald
- Khalil Mack

All of them are superior athlete to every single soccer player in the world. That’s not a dig on soccer, it’s just the fact that some football positions require more complex aspects of fitness than soccer, based simply off the nature of the game.

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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.

You don’t know anything about soccer. If you did you would understand the different styles of play by different regions of the world but you are happier licking chicken juice off your fingers and watching obese men slam into each other.

I played as a young girl. I know the positions. I lived in Germany during the 2006 World Cup. I see all the excited people. It’s just boring to watch the actual game. Like watching ants, frantically scurrying around. Not much scoring. Just kicking and running. I love sports, but I’d just as soon watch bowling or tennis before I’d watch soccer.

Anonymous wrote:Sadly why? We as a country can prefer other sports, nothing wrong with that. Also, pretty tone deaf post given all the controversy about the host country.

This. I can’t believe the atrocities are not all over the news. An estimated 6500 migrant workers died in Qatar getting ready for this World Cup. Horrifying.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s their loss, OP. We are massive fans and know a player on the team from our hometown. We are taking off work the whole week and watching as many games as we can (and lamenting Berhalter’s inability to make a moderately sensible second half adjustment). We have friends from all over the country flying in to watch games and eat Thanksgiving leftovers with us.

That's very exciting! We're taking the next 2 weeks off to watch group stage. Super excited, though we are a family that pays subscription to watch EPL all games every weekend. And Berhalter has to go. Just awful. But hopefully team can adjust before Fri.

From all accounts Gregg is a nice human being, but he’s not there as a coach. Why Gio didn’t play is a mystery to us—he’s not injured from what we know. It’s amazing that Tim Weah’s dad was not only a Ballon D’or winner but the President of Liberia, right? Maybe there would be more traction in the Politics forum.

Morris was subbed on for Weah. MORRIS, as Gio sat on the bench. I will never understand that, though I heard GB post-game say something about wanting to sub Morris for his "strength and speed". How he beats Gio on speed is anyone's guess. I'm still angry about Pepi, and at this point not looking forward to Friday.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s their loss, OP. We are massive fans and know a player on the team from our hometown. We are taking off work the whole week and watching as many games as we can (and lamenting Berhalter’s inability to make a moderately sensible second half adjustment). We have friends from all over the country flying in to watch games and eat Thanksgiving leftovers with us.

That's very exciting! We're taking the next 2 weeks off to watch group stage. Super excited, though we are a family that pays subscription to watch EPL all games every weekend. And Berhalter has to go. Just awful. But hopefully team can adjust before Fri.

From all accounts Gregg is a nice human being, but he’s not there as a coach. Why Gio didn’t play is a mystery to us—he’s not injured from what we know. It’s amazing that Tim Weah’s dad was not only a Ballon D’or winner but the President of Liberia, right? Maybe there would be more traction in the Politics forum.

Perhaps not interested in supporting a tournament where thousands died to construct the standouts through modern slavery.

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.

This is interesting to me because I watched the USA game today (at work, on my second work computer, as I worked). And I was really put off by all of the dramatic falling over/ grabbing one's leg. Each time they looked so much in pain, so agitated, it was startling. They'd zoom in on them, writhing in pain, and it made me uncomfortable to see. I was like oh my gosh this man just broke his ankle I can't watch this. But it happened like once every 60 seconds and it happened to the same players over and over, when then they'd just jump right back up and play again. I was at first upset by how much the plays seemed to hurt them (unlike in football where they seem to pop right back up and act tough, which is its own problem I know). But then I was upset at how dramatic and fake they were clearly being. Like, get up and grow up and play soccer, stop rolling around trying to convince the ref you're dying.