Sounds racist.
Wow...glad you clarified that.
'Cause, you know...soccer sucks.
But, for your sake, I hope all 22 soccer fans in America behave themselves.
I’ve never watched a soccer game in my life. It’s maybe one step above Golf on the boring as heck scale.
American soccer fans? Who knew?
The soccerfacation of America is the last straw causing our downfall.
One to add to the daily soccer “caucus” thread.
I agree with most of the points the author makes about the subset of Americans who basically are soccer “fans” as some kind of hipster counter-culture movement. But as a more typically American fan of soccer, I will still use terms like “field” and “pitch” interchangeably, and I will refer to my kids’ soccer uniforms as having a home and away “kit”, but I don’t think I’m the type of “fan” being complained about here.
Soccer? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I can’t believe how popular it’s getting here in America. The only explanations I can come up with are A) it’s rather cheap to participate...shoes, shorts, shirt, maybe pads, and B) part of the pussification of America...not as dangerous as football or hockey.
There are American soccer fans? Why?
Soccer? Soccer? What the heck is soccer? Is that the event where scantily clad smaller men run all over a field and do nothing?
Ewwww, ARSEnull sucks.
Well, ever since I saw someone on some team give a fantastic shoulder hit on some player from another team and the ref gave the hitter a card (not sure if it was hallmark) for the hit, which I thought was a great hit I have never watched another “sissy ball game” as I have affectionately come to refer to soccer — Just isn’t violent enough for me. Soccer = Hitting is penalized.
Sorry, give me lots of violent hitting, trash talking, and fighting otherwise known as the National Football League and I’m happy. Football = Hitting is cheered!
somebody should hand that guy tweezers and a mirror, so he can get that hair out of his...
"It's not that they all have the same stories about study-abroad trips to Europe, or that they get wildly excited about the simplest saves...My biggest gripe is that all of this feels like an elaborate affectation."
It IS contrived. Watch any Seattle Sounders (among others) game and see all the creative originality of a mother's circle arranged playdate from these hipster hools.
"The whole thing seemed to be less an expression of genuine fandom and more like an elaborate piece of performance art."
Nothing is real anymore; especially if the experience can be wrapped up in a hashtag.
Written by eurotrash to bash the USA.
He dislikes strategy of the game
He only likes going to a bar so he can drink (get drunk?) watching a game?
Pathetic.
In any US sport the goal is not just “to play” but to get better. In the USA we say “see you next year” this eurotrash says “burrrrrrrb, I’ll have another pint.”
Soccer isn’t on my radar screen. I regard it as akin to ice hockey — a great game to play, a good game to watch live, but bordering on lousy television.
The few times I’ve caught “Morning Joe” at the gym I’ve been amused by all the yuppie-banter about various (mostly English) Football Clubs. You can tell it’s an faddish affectation, like cigar bars or flavored martini’s.
I found this whole article amusing as a critique of our urban-elite’s who are trying so hard, like President Obama, to be accepted by his betters in Europe. I guess I didn’t get the memo, I thought we were “pivoting to Asia”?
Adapted from a delicious bacon (Either you like bacon, or you’re wrong) thread:
Either you hate soccer, or you’re wrong.
I’ve been using that on EVERYTHING I have an opinion on. I love it!