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A sport for people with loser mentality?!
I never thought I´d say this, but after reading some of the comments in this thread, I´m almost glad Brazil won the game. And trust me, coming from an Argentine, that´s saying something.
No !
I shouldn't have opened this thread.... I ing jinxed them
A sport for people with loser mentality?!
Aren't you from CLE? You should be all up in this .
Soccer is for losers. Its the only sport I know of that can end in a 0-0 tie. Its the only sport where you can play and not touch the ball all game. You can't fail at soccer like you can all the other major sports.
And I mentioned baseball because a kid can play baseball and strike out 4 times in a game, or blow the game and feel bad about himself, and the other kids might make fun of him. Soccer on the other hand, he could have the worst game ever, but as long as he is out running about, nobody will ever notice. That's why its for losers.
The Conferations Cup is mostly meaningless. The World Cup and Euro are all a much higher priority for the top national teams. Even the fledgling football nations tend to send their B-teams to the Confederations Cup in order to try out the youngsters and prepare their squads for upcoming qualifiers to legit competetions. It's a fun little tournament but nothing to get worked up over.
This has to be your greatest post ever
I agree 100%
i actually like most of your posts but what youre saying now is total BS.
What's BS about it?
explain to me then why, in the United States, Soccer is the most participated sport by kids out of all the major sports. Yet in high school there isn't tryouts for the team, and soccer is maybe the 4th or 5th most popular sport in America.
It's because parents force their kids into activity and when they get older they quit and join the band,become book worms, play video games, or just smoke weed all day. The non athletic kids play soccer because their parents can't accept the fact that their kid can't hit a baseball or hit a jumpshot. I'm not saying all soccer players in the US are unathletic, I'm just saying the majority of the youth that play it play it because their parents make them. Soccer is like a day care, or a place where parents drop their introverted, unathletic kids off in hopes of them making some friends.
If you think you can play it without touching the ball, then its the same with american football. Isnt that bull ? If you as a kid dont touch the ball in football, then you suck , but that goes for every other ballsport. Has nothing to do with football.
yeah but in soccer you can not touch the ball and still walk home in one piece. In American football, you can not touch the ball and still go home on a stretcher. Soccer is the safest environment parents can put their kids in both emotionally and physically, that is why it's so big among the youth here in the States. 80% of the kids don't want to play, they are just doing it because their parents are making them play a sport and it's a better option than failing in one of the ones where you the skilled, athletics kids play.
Well thats what i dont get, football is a tough hard sport, very technical and you need to be very athletic. Why dont they send their kids to play ping pong, dodgeball or mini golf or something. So that means theres somethig wrong with the parents, not the sport
because there aren't youth pingpong, mini golf, or dodge ball leagues for kids. And dodge ball is the worst example you can use. Dodgeball is the one sport/game where the unathletic kids are singled out and beat down the most. It's a game where the bigger and stronger kid's goal is to beam the weak kids with a ball.
Thunder Dan makes some of the most idiotic posts I've ever seen on this board in this thread. Football can end in a 0-0 tie too, Mr. McNab. I've seen some horrific soccer injuries but in any event I don't understand where the concept of how bad injuries can be has anything to do with the value of a sport.
Your points are utter . A kid can strike out four times in a game so that somehow makes baseball better? Are you saying that you can do no wrong in soccer? The simple fact is that your ignorance on what happens in soccer and where the mistakes are makes you believe that striking out is somehow worse than misplaying a ball that leads to a goal.
I don't for the life of me understand where you come up with the idea that you can't suck at soccer. Its simply so moronic I'm amazed you've come to that conclusion. As kids, all sports are tailored to make it so you don't "fail".
Basically you're entire argument boils down to kids can't get really hurt playing soccer (which is bull ) and they make it so kids can't fail (which is also bull ) so soccer is a loser sport. I'm pretty sure that the best soccer players in the world would kick your ass in any sport you wanted to challenge them to.
Its not even about liking soccer. If you don't enjoy it, then all the power to you. But the points made in this thread are completely ing re ed.
so you are telling me that there are alot of injuries in pee wee soccer? more than there is in baseball or football? Soccer is for the kids who's parents complain to the baseball coach about their son not getting playing time, or for the kids who don't go to football practice because it is too hot out. That is why soccer is for everyone. Soccer is for kids whose parents can't accept that their kids suck at everything else. It's the reason youth soccer is so big, but soccer from ages 16-20 isn't- everyone quits once they realize they suck as sports and they might be better off doing something else.
There are no injuries in pee wee soccer either.
No, your argument is re ed because you're judging sports in your inaccurate account on how you perceive they are in the peewee level. That alone makes you look re ed. your entire argument in negated by the fact that PROFESSIONAL soccer is the biggest sport in the world.
I don't know why you keep bringing up this "loser mentality" and "everyone's a winner" from. You must have been living in Cleveland too long.
I don't know that I agree with Thunder Dan, all I know is that soccer is boring as . And it's not that I didn't grow up with soccer, because I didn't grow up with rugby but a few years back I got hooked on rugby and now it's my 3rd favorite sport behind basketball and football. I even find cricket fun to watch.
Soccer is just a boring, caveman sport that might have been fun 100 years ago. Hey let's just kick a ball around for a long ass time!
I watched some of the second half.
Damn, we ing choked.
Kids don't play soccer because they wont get injured, what a dumb point. How many 8 year old kids get injured playing softball or football or basketball? They're weak runts, they don't have the power to injure someone anyways.
Kids play soccer for the exact same reason 3rd world youth do - it is cheap as dirt to play in small games or upscaled. All you need is a ball and some sticks in the dirt to mark off the goal. Why do you think street hockey is popular with youth? Not because it's fun, because all you need is a soda can to beat around and some trash cans to mark the goal. Same deal.
Children lack the upper arm strength to play footbal/basketball/tennis/golf in any way that could be fun.
imo, baseball's the most boring sports out of the four.
At least soccer's fast. You see fat people play in baseball.
Soccer is lame.
Team USA could beat a Martian Alien Squad who just discovered Planet Earth and challenged the U.S.A. to a friendly game and I still would not care.
If you don't like having your statements refuted, try not making such stupid ones.
What stupid statement did I make? That the FIFA ranks are not accurate? And how did you refute that?
If you don't like having your statements refuted, try not making such stupid ones.
You were butt hurt you missed the game and just became an all around moron.
But yeah dude, I'll avoid the stupid statements. I'd hate to end up sounding like you.
I'll explain to you how bad these rankings are since you obviously fail to understand it. As recently as four years ago, the US was ranked fourth in the world. Do you really think the US has ever had a team that was the fourth best in the world through modern history?
So explain to me, what exactly did you refute.
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