Lets hate soccer thread.

Yep, let it all out.

"Rugby is a lout's game played by Gentlemen, Soccer is a Gentlemen's game played by louts."

1. Soccer is boring, 90 minutes of running around a huge pitch and the match is decided on penalties. There is precious little scoring.

2. Soccer is devisive. Long time petty rivalries are ressurected and created. Petty nationalism England/France/Germany and even tribalism i.e. Manchester/Liverpool, identical cities, but supporters hate each other's guts for no reason other then the color of their shirts.

3. Soccer is for wimps. No contact sport and there is always somebody on the ground whincing in pain. I mean little kids play it.

4.Soccer is for plebs. Just look at your average soccer fan in Europe, frequently unemployed, no education, no class, the dregs of society.

5. Soccer is not a national sport. Most of France's team is black and many Italian players are from ex-Yougoslavia.

6. Soccer is for trouble makers. I can't imagine US Fotball fans frequently rioting, despite it being a very agressive, physical contact game. But since most hooligan's are wimps who hide in the safety of crowds, they are attracted to such a wimpy sport.

7.Soccer creates a sense of false pride. Well ok, so Italians are good at kicking a leather ball around, good thing for them, they excel at many other things unlike many other nations that are good at soccer. We in Russia never won anything decent lately, soccer related, but put a man into space.

8. Soccer is robbery. Yeah, pay a couple of hundred bucks to watch some pampered primadonnas work up a little sweat and put that money towards their 10th Ferrari.

9.Soccer glorifies lack of education. Just look at some of the mouth breathers at some of the teams. They are worshipped as heroes because they have motor skills that an equally trained monkey can posess. Kids in School look up to them, instead of scientists and humanitarians.

10. Soccer produces world's worst drivers. Ever heard of a soccer Mom driver?

Niko.

 

i watched a game while in costa rica during the world cup, it's insane how people in countries outside of the us literally stop work for their country's games. in the hotel we stayed at, it was about 6:30 in the morning, and everyone, from the maids up to the managers were sitting there watching the game, i just found it interesting.

the one thing i don't understand about soccer is that time expires, yet they keep on playing. the best explanation i've heard is the refs guesstimate how much time was taken up by penalties/injuries and tack it onto the end of the game. things that make you go hmm.

 

The beautiful game.

 

Yep yep.
How can anyone hate soccer. The most played game in the world. Always good fun kicking a soccer ball around the park with friends.

 

I'm a lifelong F1 fan, so I've got nothing to say!

 

Sure it is -- it doesn't require any real equipment. Perfect for poverty-stricken hellholes around the world. You can even use a severed head for the ball if you really want to.

 

Soccer is a beautiful sport and the most widely played sport in the world.

 

Or a coconut!

 

This needs to go to P&R. FOOTBALL...not soccer, is religion for half the planet's population.

Oh, and Tillman...what???

 

The only reason "some" people play "football" is because they are too fat and not coordinated enough to play soccer.

GOOOOAAAALLLLLLL para Braaasssssiiiiiiilllllll..............!!!

 

It's football, not soccer


"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I am disappointed with that attitude. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”
Bill Shankly

 

Hey, this is a thread to soccer bashers ;-)

 

Fair point I s'pose

 

Has anyone ever heard Jim Rome go off on Soccer and Soccer fan?

Only sport where rioting is acceptable, the only skills needed to play are being able to fake injuries and eat orange slices.

 

loved by 11 year old girls everywhere in the US.

Its a great beginner sport. Get the kids into the idea of sports. Little strategy involved, plays take a LONG to time to develop and 99% of time come to naught, the rules are few and simple, and its a good workout running back and forth.

but it is soon outgrown and the players move on to more complex and challenging sports.

 

My son plays at a high level here in DFW.
I have watched the games for years and aquired the taste.
It was said recently by a College scout we listened to that soccer/football is the last sport where the players call the shots, thus a thinking mans game.
I had never really thought of it that way before.

 

Let's try a little SAT-style analogy.

Soccer IS TO American Football AS Formula One IS TO NASCAR

Oops, I think I didn't get the point of the thread.

 

It's actually one of the most complex sports period. I would say top 3 easily and possibly top 2.

 

I dunno, at least in US Footbal, there is a lot of tactics involved, plays look like diagrams to Napoleonic era battles, good tactics always pay. In soccer, it always seem like an accident when somebody gets through. Since it is played with legs only, it is very imprecise and very often even good plays are simply mucked up when somebody does not receive the ball properly.

 

US Football?? You mean Padded Rugby?

Soccer as you call it is still called football, as you also point out (played with the legs)

 

Seriously though. The same argument above can be used about American football as well.

 

Played soccer in college.
Lots more fun to play than to watch.

Nobody comes to the games unless the girls take their shirts off.

We already have one boring slow summer sport to watch. It's called baseball.

The only things that keep NASCAR from this category are the wrecks and the Hooters girls. I will have to admit the Daytona 500 had an exciting ending.

 

Football- terrible
American Football- a little better
Rugby- best sport on the planet without a doubt.


Case and point http://youtube.com/watch?v=PD1_puuceg0

 

+1

Why did you want that we hate it...

 

Rugby Union and Rugby League are far more exciting than Soccer and American Football of sure.
80mins on non-stop action. Bone crunching tackles throughout the entire game. I used to play Rugby League a couple of years ago. Great fun. Eventually gave it up as I did not have time to play anymore. The All Blacks in that video are a bunch of hard f*ckers!