Who gives a crap?
Overpaid tossers run about crying and falling over like girls. Blah blah
shareIt will never overtake American football. Not enough scoring in international football/soccer to hold much interest in the states.
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Same arguement used all the time.
So literally Americans don't care about anythng other than points on the board?
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Lack of scoring is certainly part of it, but what's frustrating for me is the lack of precision. Face it, feet can only be so dexterous.
My two sons played Soccer (football), Basketball, Baseball, and American Football in grade school and high school. It was torture to attend the soccer games.
Lack of scoring is certainly part of it
Only Americans think it is no one else in the world does. So again all you seem to care about is points on the board. IF a basketball game is 90-90 after 46 mins it might as well be 0-0 as only the last 2 mins will mean anything
It was torture to attend the soccer games.
So you don't like it. Ok. But the original quesiton was "who gives a crap". Well everyone in the world outisde of North America and maybe Canada do. You know football is the most played, watched and supported sport on the planet. share
Australia, India, New Zealand
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You didn't address my main point of lack of precision. You're trying to reduce American's reluctance to embrace soccer to a single factor - scoring. Again, the lack of scoring is one part but the lack of precision is what bothers me and I suspect a lot of non-fans, and more importantly, the lack of scoring is also a direct result of the lack of precision in the sport. Everyone makes fun of curling but at least there is a precision to it that is leagues beyond soccer.
But don't mistake my comments for wondering why the rest of the world enjoys soccer (they clearly do and I'm glad of it), only to voice my opinion why soccer is having trouble making inroads in America.
You didn't address my main point of lack of precision
Due to you not actually asking me. Plus that is an observation based on your opinion and your opinion only.
You're trying to reduce American's reluctance to embrace soccer to a single factor - scoring
Due to being the only arguement that keeps reappearing. That is lack of goals. It is the same arguement used over and over. You just decided to for some reason add precision which means what exactly. American sports use there hands and there precision is lacking as well. Overthrown balls in Gridiron, missed pitches and catches in baseball and missed shots in basketball. That is skill of the sport not the bodily anotomy on question.
More goals in football wouldn't make it better it would make it worse. Goals are meant to be difficult to achieve. So when one is scored it means something. Scoring another point on top of the already 80 plus points is meaningless. share
You just decided to for some reason add precision which means what exactly
It wasn't for "some reason", it is the reason. What I mean is that the sport uses no hands which means by design there simply can't be a lot of precision - there's no such thing as a possession in soccer or turnovers because rarely does a team possess a ball for very long. The ball keeps changing sides because even the best at the sport can only do so much without hands. I mean, the goal is over 7M wide and scoring is still hard to achieve.
And again, the lack of scoring is due to the lack of precision, which is frustrating. Some sports do have too much scoring (NBA - which is why I don't watch it), but there are low scoring games in other sports. Baseball fans don't complain when the first game of a double header is 8-7 and the second game is 1-0. Both are exciting games.
Some sports like Tennis *require* scoring to win, and yet no one complains about that. The speed and precision of tennis is what makes it fun to watch.
Of course there are missed throws, overthrown passes, missed baskets, missed putts, double fault serves, etc., but those things are not the norm.
Yes, the lack of scoring is an issue but the reason the scoring is so low is what's so frustrating to sports fans used to precision ball control.
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