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S­up /sp/ fans

Isn't football or soccer for you yanks the best fucking sport ever?
I mean seriously, it kicks arse, yes they are pussies at times but I bet you couldn't play as well as them.
It's better than those pussies with a shitload of padding and a jock strap running about hugging each other.

Pic related, the greatest keeper ever and no I don't suppost Chelsea.

In b4 soccer is shit etc.. etc..
>> Anonymous
inb4 cancer killing /sp/
Is it really worth starting this argument again?
>> Anonymous
you do realise the brits, the people who invented the sport, also call it soccer?
>> Anonymous
Who's the pussy wearing headgear?
>> Anonymous
>>54919you do realise the brits, the people who invented the sport, suck at it?
>> State of soccer in the US Anonymous
No 3rd generation or older American can tolerate the sport.

In a America 25 million kids play soccer every and after they play their last game they never go to/watch another soccer game again.

The problem isn't really marketing and ad revenue (Something MLS is doing wel now with those electronic Ad barriers something you'll see in Europe soon enough) or the game it's self. It's just the stone cold fact the good soccer players don't play here in America (or are American at all)

When we get Super stars we get them when they're old and busted like Pele and Becks (but that 1st goal last night for the Galaxy was awesome with all that confetii the crowd threw in the stands)

As long as they're winning our national women's team is adored here. Men's team is seen as a waste of goverment money.
>> Anonymous
>>54924
Henry is going to the MLS next season. He isn't a shit player like Posh and if they build their team around him, they just might not suck as hard as they would without him.
>> Anonymous
Americans don't like soccer because they suck at it.

How can a rich country of 300 million(?) with all types of races and ethnicities not be able to put together a team of 11 good players?

Fuck, even Ghana can manage that.
>> Anonymous
>>54939
>How can a rich country of 300 million(?) with all types of races and ethnicities not be able to put together a team of 11 good players

Because Soccer is a third tier sport in the US for men. All of the USA's finest male athletes, nigra decendents of pure bread slaves, can make more money in Basketball or Football and achieve more short term glory by running track.
>> Anonymous
>>54948
Baseball also kinda has this problem, No first class black athletes are gonna sit thru 4 years of collage Baseball than play another 2 years in the minors before getting a decent deal in the MLB when they play one year of collage basketball (which is a bullshit rule by the NBA but that's another story) and than get paid more money than god at the age of 19 in the NBA.

Yeah the MLS isn't really know for crazy contracts for high school students. Posh gets most of his money thru an Adidas endorsement deal and rest of league gets paid in Capri-Sun drinks and orange slices.

Soccer here is just split into 2 groups Northeastern white guys and Southwestern Latinos. Inner city blacks don't ever play soccer outside of a Phys Ed class
>> Anonymous
>>54924

Vaguely related but I *just* saw those electronic ad barriers at a J.LEAGUE game today for the first time. They must have just gotten them as they weren't at the last game I went to (last Sunday), but I certainly noticed them before the game. Europe doesn't have them already? That's a shocker.
>> Anonymous
wat electronic ad barriers?
>> Anonymous
>>54915
lol, Cech has been shit this year when he's played.
>> Anonymous
>>54958
Around the field at a MLS game they use an electronic TV screen like barrier that plays a number of ads during the games instead of a static plastic one like you see in most other soccer stadiums. It's kinda distracting but I guess that is the point.
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>>54948
Sure is JIMMY THE GREEK around here
>> Anonymous
>>54964
Oh...you mean like the ones that every decent european stadium has?
>> Anonymous
>>54970
In America there are no Staidum shots of european arenas unless you guys are burning something or having a Nazi rally while throwing road flairs at some poor african goalie.
>> Anonymous
>>54973
>throwing road flairs at some poor african goalie.

oh come on, most of em deserve it
>> Anonymous
>>54939

>>Americans don't like soccer because they suck at it.

and this ladies and gentleman is pure truth

>>54964

what the fuck, say you are trolling please. they have this shit even in some african national championships