how TF is soccer such a big sport? lmfao

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Originally Posted By CaliSuperSport⏩

So laughter is relative to anger now?

Next you'll probably tell me how watching 20 second huddles followed by 1 yard gains and commercial breaks is entertaining, LMAO.

Or don't forget scoring over 100 points in a basketball game which mean nothing until the last 2 minutes of the 4th quarter, LOL.

Lol jokes on you I think all ball sports are stupid. Basketball being the biggest joke of them all and I honestly wouldn't even call it a sport.

All I did was state facts about soccer to try and explain how its so popular to the OP without bringing up football and other sports like everyone seems to be doing.

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Originally Posted By FFailed⏩

Lol jokes on you I think all ball sports are stupid. Basketball being the biggest joke of them all and I honestly wouldn't even call it a sport.

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well I was debating with someone how basketball is arguably easier to play broke than soccer. All you need is a ball, a trash can, and 1 other person

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It's literally the easiest sport to set up. Have a ball? A field? Congratulations, you can now play soccer!

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Originally Posted By Muzzlrpress⏩

It's literally the easiest sport to set up. Have a ball? A field? Congratulations, you can now play soccer!

This it makes sense. 99% of the other sports are more industrialized. You dont even need developed land to play

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Originally Posted By propreffered7⏩

This it makes sense. 99% of the other sports are more industrialized. You dont even need developed land to play

Originally Posted By Muzzlrpress⏩

It's literally the easiest sport to set up. Have a ball? A field? Congratulations, you can now play soccer!

you guys forget that England invented soccer and was the most powerful nation in the world around the same time.

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Originally Posted By Kev1972⏩

Don't understand how any grown man can put his life on hold to watch some idiots chase a ball around for a couple hours.

Spectators of any sport are borderline retarded.

This. Watching sports is boring af and most people take it way too seriously. I notice most sports fans, specifically football and hockey are overweight alcoholics with no class. They watch it all day every day and don't actually exercise or play sports themselves. Can't be healthy.

Playing sports on the other hand, completely different story.

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Originally Posted By CaliSuperSport⏩

you guys forget that England invented soccer and was the most powerful nation in the world around the same time.

True.. But were talking about why its a global phenomenon.

Soccer and basketball have to be up there in low starting costs. But basketball requires concrete/ court. Generally in cities

It would make sense soccer is more prevalent in underdeveloped nations

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Originally Posted By propreffered7⏩

True.. But were talking about why its a global phenomenon.

Soccer and basketball have to be up there in low starting costs. But basketball requires concrete/ court. Generally in cities

It would make sense soccer is more prevalent in underdeveloped nations

I know everyone wants to believe this to cope with why soccer is the top sport, but it's not the primary factor. If you want a dominant factor, it was likely England's influence during soccer's creation, as well as it's proximity to Europe. You know there's many first world countries where soccer is by far the main sport right?

To suggest soccer is #1 because poor kids in Africa can setup twigs as goal posts in a dirt field....just lol. Fans aren't cheering for the goals, they cheering because there's a net and they don't have to chase the ball down I guess.

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Originally Posted By CaliSuperSport⏩

I know everyone wants to believe this to cope with why soccer is the top sport, but it's not the primary factor. If you want a dominant factor, it was likely England's influence during soccer's creation, as well as it's proximity to Europe. You know there's many first world countries where soccer is by far the main sport right?

To suggest soccer is #1 because poor kids in Africa can setup twigs as goal posts in a dirt field....just lol. Fans aren't cheering for the goals, they cheering because there's a net and they don't have to chase the ball down I guess.

Ease of access is one reason, but genetics play an important role also. It's a sport where you don't have to be the biggest, strongest, or tallest. Just build up stamina and learn to kick really well.

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Originally Posted By CaliSuperSport⏩

I know everyone wants to believe this to cope with why soccer is the top sport, but it's not the primary factor. If you want a dominant factor, it was likely England's influence during soccer's creation, as well as it's proximity to Europe. You know there's many first world countries where soccer is by far the main sport right?

To suggest soccer is #1 because poor kids in Africa can setup twigs as goal posts in a dirt field....just lol. Fans aren't cheering for the goals, they cheering because there's a net and they don't have to chase the ball down I guess.

Which is why I also mentioned people enjoy watching things they grow up around in my "cope" post lol

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Originally Posted By Muzzlrpress⏩

Ease of access is one reason, but genetics play an important role also. It's a sport where you don't have to be the biggest, strongest, or tallest. Just build up stamina and learn to kick really well.

It's definitely less biased towards height and strength, which is a big reason why I love it. The GOAT is a Argentine manlet who had to take prescription substances to reach 5'7''. I compare that to basketball where as a manlet you better be agile and athletic af with god tier handles to ever stand a chance at competitive levels, from high school through the pros. Relative to the guys taller than you.

Still a fukton more to it soccer though than non-watchers care to admit. And I was once a diehard basketball fan and didn't watch soccer at all. Now it's completely reversed.

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Which is why I also mentioned people enjoy watching things they grow up around in my "cope" post lol

don't take it too hard m8, I've just seen that same shallow argument a dozen times.

The British Empire did more for soccer than two twigs and a field ever did. btw we blow most soccer playing countries out with population.

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Originally Posted By Muzzlrpress⏩

Ease of access is one reason, but genetics play an important role also. It's a sport where you don't have to be the biggest, strongest, or tallest. Just build up stamina and learn to kick really well.

lold at "kick really well"

Obviously alot of people ITT never played football (soccer) with a group of people who knew what they were doing. I don't get why people hate on soccer. It's a real nice and hard sport to play. This is coming from someone who enjoys wathcing and played murican football, rugby and hockey from a young age.

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Originally Posted By pehzan⏩

lold at "kick really well"

Obviously alot of people ITT never played football (soccer) with a group of people who knew what they were doing. I don't get why people hate on soccer. It's a real nice and hard sport to play. This is coming from someone who enjoys wathcing and played murican football, rugby and hockey from a young age.

Probably mainly just miscers who are biased, mad or just trolling.

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yeah basketball is technically the best sport

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Originally Posted By CaliSuperSport⏩

I know everyone wants to believe this to cope with why soccer is the top sport, but it's not the primary factor. If you want a dominant factor, it was likely England's influence during soccer's creation, as well as it's proximity to Europe. You know there's many first world countries where soccer is by far the main sport right?

To suggest soccer is #1 because poor kids in Africa can setup twigs as goal posts in a dirt field....just lol. Fans aren't cheering for the goals, they cheering because there's a net and they don't have to chase the ball down I guess.

It definitely is.. Same with basketball as i said

Also disagree about it coming out of england. Id say maybe some of the intricacies/ subtleties known today maybe but old civilizations used to kick severed heads around instead of soccer balls

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Originally Posted By pehzan⏩

lold at "kick really well"

Obviously alot of people ITT never played football (soccer) with a group of people who knew what they were doing. I don't get why people hate on soccer. It's a real nice and hard sport to play. This is coming from someone who enjoys wathcing and played murican football, rugby and hockey from a young age.

It's just different from the more popular sports in America. The games areverylow scoring, and we're used to a higher degree of allowed violence in some sports.

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Originally Posted By propreffered7⏩

It definitely is.. Same with basketball as i said

Also disagree about it coming out of england. Id say maybe some of the intricacies/ subtleties known today maybe but old civilizations used to kick severed heads around instead of soccer balls

Yes they've been playing iterations of "kick ball" since at least the 3rd century and even medieval times in England, but England was the one who brought all these forms together into a standard ruleset which then spread internationally some time after they made the FA. Some ancient forms of kick ball probably had more in common with hacky sack than modern soccer.

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American football is becoming less and less entertaining to watch. 10 years ago you'd see guys flying head first making a hard hit and now... breathe on the QB and its a penalty. Can count on 2 hands the number of hard hits in the last 5 years when that used to be the amount in 1 game every. That was the biggest appeal to most people and that's partly why its losing viewers every single year. 45 pts in a game used to be a rarity now its pretty much a given. Soon people are going to be bored watching 5+ TDs every game. Same with basketball.

Lol, did you see the hit from jenkins in the SB? There are still hard hits all the time, just cant go head to head with defenseless recievers or qbs because otherwise people would be trying to make the nfl illegal with all the cte stuff, the nfl cant keep everyone happy either way.

And 45 points a game is far from a given, highest scoring team was the eagles with a 29 ppg average....and people complained that the nfl was too low scoring compared to college which is when they started changing rules to favor the offense to promote scoring, people complain no matter what, the nfl is still the most popular sport in the Usa so if its supposedly dying what does that say about the nba, nhl and mlb?

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Originally Posted By SoutheastBeast1⏩

Same reason McDonalds is popular. It’s accessible to poor people.

If you fall in with the majority in anything in life you may want to rethink what you’re doing, lol.

That also applies to american football if you're american.

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[QUOTE=Muzzlrpress post_id=1543094751]It's just different from the more popular sports in America. The games are [b]very[/b[] low scoring, and we're used to a higher degree of allowed violence in some sports.[/QUOTE]Came in to post this, American’s love our violence, from football to firearms, to car crashes in NASCAR. **** we watch a show called Cops hoping to see a cop shoot or beat someone down. We are truly unlike every other country, guess that’s why we tend to be the worlds police, because we have no issue with violence.

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Imagine Merica's best athletes grew up playing soccer. We would absolutely dominate all those poverty 3rd worlders. They'd have to come up with a new game that the neighborhood could play for less than 2 pesos.

And 0-0 just lmao

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Originally Posted By BigRangs⏩

Imagine Merica's best athletes grew up playing soccer. We would absolutely dominate all those poverty 3rd worlders. They'd have to come up with a new game that the neighborhood could play for less than 2 pesos.

And 0-0 just lmao

Would take decades and a concerted focus on Soccer. Don't see that happening in our lifetimes. In Europe, children can enter academies at around 10 years old, and from there are trained and immersed in world class players & coaches, all the way until they join the first teams in top flight leagues which trounce the MLS.

Btw saying "0-0" as an argument is a well known code for "I don't know chit about soccer".

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Originally Posted By Zwicker⏩

I've never understood the obsession with guys talking about how they don't watch soccer. Just lol. Who cares? I'm sure there are any number of sports you don't watch in addition to soccer. Most Americans don't watch cricket, rugby, curling, lacrosse, etc.

Like most things, if you haven't competed in soccer you wouldn't understand the skill level/tactics involved. You wouldn't appreciate how difficult it is to bring down a ball on the side/top of the cleat mid stride, take a touch, and strike the ball/pass. Just lol at "it's just grown men kicking a ball around." Well playing the piano is just pressing a bunch of keys, but that can get pretty challenging...

The beauty of the game is the simplicity of it. Kids living in poverty in Africa can play with a ball made of rags and develop a lot of the skills involved. Somehow Americans managed to turn soccer into a rich kid game as well. "Travel" teams of kids with money competing for scholarships.

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