Ideas to make soccer more interesting from an American

[The War Report]

he's right though. Baseball is the most boring sport to me. I'd watch cricket all day than to watch 1 inning of a baseball game

 

[blackzeus]

And soccer STILL aint hurting cuz Americans don't watch. Its still far and away the MOST popular sport in the world...only baseball comes close in terms of worldwide prestige..

one of the ONLY sports where the WORLD Cup is the (actual)WORLD CUP. not just some league of owners and employees.

 

[Premeditated]

It's just my opinion breh

 

[yseJ]

Daps for your response, and I feel what you're saying. That's why I said when the ball changes possession. If you see a player from your squad steal the ball, you should be able to break to the opposing goal at full speed. I am saying only when the ball changes possession. At the bare minimum, at least when you're outside of the penalty box. I think it would make for much more beautiful soccer. You would have soccer "alley oops", and score would be up to about 10-15 goals per game. I think I might start a league just to show people. If soccer was more free-flowing, and a little more physical, I think it would be an incredible game. More accurate to me would be a basketball/hockey hybrid, not football/hockey. To me basketball is the "hands" version of soccer, it's free flowing, there's no stoppage other than timeout (I don't consider taking the ball out of bounds stoppage), and you need accuracy in order to score. If basketball had offsides, it would literally suck. It sucks a little bit now because you can't hand check and be as physical as you could back in the day. But if basketball had offsides, it would be the equivalent of the Spurs vs Celtics every day Some concessions on offsides at a minimum would make it the best game

bunch of stuff here

first of all, basketball is the definition of a sport with stoppages. clock stops when there's a foul, ball is out of bounds, player is shooting FTs, timeouts, inbound passes, etc. in fact soccer is one of the few games where is no stoppages

then 10-15 goals per game is

heres what you fail to understand as an american. more exciting sport!=necessarily a better sport. maybe to YOU it is, but for most soccer fans its not.

again, you try to cater to what YOU think is good (in this case, exciting), forgetting what soccer FANS think is good in their game.

its the whole fukked up mentality. here in america people wont watch and generally wont support a team that isnt either 1)winning 2)entertaining to watch.

whereas many soccer fans in europe will always watch and support their team no matter what. they could be absolutely shyt and be in a D-league equivalent of the NBA and thousands of fans will still show up to support them.


then you bring up forward pass in football, when it was implemented so long ago football was merely an offspring of rugby and soccer then.

you are proposing some changes that fundamentally change some of the basic ass rules of soccer. its like allowing three forward passes in football or making the rim sit higher in basketball.


sports is a bunch of people playing sports, and fans pay to view they play it.
sports isnt played for fans to be enjoyable to watch. you dont like it, don't watch. "how to improve things so sport x can be enjoyable by stupid americans" is really an ignorant concept that gets tackled all the time by stupid people (nothing personal breh) who dont realize that no one who enjoys soccer worldwide cares whether or not the US enjoys it.

 

[yseJ]

also the change of possession thing is a terrible idea. soccer has hundreds of possession changes per game.

how the fukk will you enforce a player NOT to stand pat offside on a particular possession? have zones like in hockey ?

nothing in soccer 'limits' athleticism or speed. it just rewards anticipation, patience and stamina over random short sprint bursts and idle standing, which is what youre proposing.

even worse, with no offside on your possession, what stops you from getting a bunch of 6'8 dudes and getting them all in the goal area and basically crossing jumpballs all the time ?
cmon breh, shyt would be awful.

 

[concise]

Those of you who want to "Americanize" the game ought to google the early history of MLS.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Those of you who want to "Americanize" the game ought to google the early history of MLS.

this...

did we change the rules of basketbal/baseball to make it more accessible to europe/asia?

I'm american but i can't stand Amero/Anglo centrism as if the world and its rules and its sports rotate around us....Americans don't watch soccer because its the only sport where we aren't the DOMINANT force in..its as simple as that....let the Men win the world cup in 2014

 

[Roaden Polynice]

Cool thread. Good ideas, all

 

[Tony D'Amato]

I dont understand the point of offsides in soccer or Hockey. Its like having a player in basketball about to go dunk on a fastbreak. BUt the refs stop them before they jump.

That sh1t would ruin the game.

But when Latinos are running the country in a few yrs, soccer might be bigger than basketball and baseball. Dont see nuthin fukkin with football.

 

[yseJ]

I dont understand the point of offsides in soccer or Hockey. Its like having a player in basketball about to go dunk on a fastbreak. BUt the refs stop them before they jump.

That sh1t would ruin the game.

But when Latinos are running the country in a few yrs, soccer might be bigger than basketball and baseball. Dont see nuthin fukkin with football.

you dont understand the point of offsides then.

its nothing like a fast break in basketball. its a stupid comparison.

offsides are made so players arent fukking camping in one place most of the game

 

[BIGDENNIS10UK]

Without offsides it would encorouged teams to just hoof it upfield to running players, taking all the skill out of the game.

Lol@wanting more goals, England vs Italy was never gonns be a goal feat, watch some quality premier games or champions league, there are plenty of goals.

The game also used to be a lot rougher, check out 70's English football, being rougher doesn't make it better.

Penalties ate fine and that's coming from an Englishman haha.

Most rules have been implemented for a reason and football is perfect as it is, I don't like the new billionaires throwing money st football clubs thing, but that probably cos I support arsenal

 

[infamous003]

instead of attacking the threadstarter, why not just do what he says?
The average Amrican DOES find soccer boring and maybe they would watch with a few tweaks, just like the same way hockey realized they needed to change some things.

Or you could stop being so self-centered and realize that the rest of the world is fine with it and it doesn't need to change to draw "the average American". Watch or don't. It's really that simple.

 

[Trill Evans]

1 star, terrible thread.

@ taking offside out of the game.

@ trying to ruin the beautiful game.

 

[The Tanzanian Prince]

close thread

 

[Tony D'Amato]

you dont understand the point of offsides then.

its nothing like a fast break in basketball. its a stupid comparison.

offsides are made so players arent fukking camping in one place most of the game

That sounds stupid. That sounds like illegal dedense.

Ive seen a player get kicked the ball and then they take back a goal becuz he crossed a line or some sh1t.

Or.am I thinking of hockey? One if these sports need to get rid of offsides.