Why is soccer the world's sport?

[Juven]

The rest of the world seems to like Hockey & Baseball, sports that require equipment, the sport will never catch on outside the US because there are way too many rules and it's not something you can do on your own.

I can't watch it, it's basically 20 seconds of action followed by 20 viagra commercials.

i dont think hockey is that popular. Baseball I think has pretty much hit its plateau. I spoke to some british tourists and they told me they love football. They even get together with their friends to watch it.

I hate the commercials too, and ive fallen asleep a couple of times b/c there are so many, but i think football has a chance. They just gotta change the name to throwball or some shyt and cut down on the commercials.

 

[Malta]

i dont think hockey is that popular. Baseball I think has pretty much hit its plateau. I spoke to some british tourists and they told me they love football. They even get together with their friends to watch it.

I hate the commercials too, and ive fallen asleep a couple of times b/c there are so many, but i think football has a chance. They just gotta change the name to throwball or some shyt and cut down on the commercials.

Hockey is popular in Canada and Eastern Europe, Baseball is popular in Latin America and parts of Asia, while American Football is only popular in the US and nowhere else. You may have talked to some Brits that like the sport, but think about this, are there any British NFL players that were born, bred and raised in a Euro feeder system?


Nah breh, it's too expensive, one of the reasons why basketball is surging is all you need is a ball and hoop

That is one of the major reasons why soccer is the worlds top sport, all you need is a ball and nothing else. Football is cost prohibitive and it requires too many people to play, you can't play it by yourself like you can with other sports.

 

[MikeyC]

Roddy Right trying his damndest to become the Coliseum WOAT

Can you read, troll? I never said American football was an Olympic sport. I said American football players participate in non-American football related events. Soccer players will never compete because they simply lack the ability, not because they make much more money.

Soccer players will never compete in the Olympics because they have a busier schedule. A player like Messi, for example, has over the past 18 months has played close to 150-odd games for club and country. Barcelona would never allow him to leave the club for a month to compete in an Olympic event isn't even his speciality.

The average soccer player actually makes less money than the average American football player. Premier League salary is 30 thousand a week which only translates to about 400 thousand US dollars a year. The average American football player makes 435 thousand annually, so about 35 thousand more than the average English Premier league player makes every year. So in fact, soccer players aren't the best paid athletes in the world on average. American football players are paid more on average.

The fukk you been smoking, nikka? £30,000 a week does not equate to $400,000 a year. That shyts roughly £1.5 million per annum.

What gets me about this one, though, is even though you've converted the initial average EPL players salary from £ to $, you fail to do it on the second part, thus making your stupid mathematics sound more impressive than it actually is.

nikka literally pulling numbers outta his ass.

I should have asked you to give me a list of Olympic level players currently playing, not this one, which lists players from the last 2 decade (Overmars? Eusebio? You are really clawing into the past ). The only players here that were/are actually fast are Henry, Martins, Walcott and possibly Valencia (the rest are just fast dribblers). And you can't prove these 4 or so guys have Olympic speed, like I can with current NFL players (since a significant number participate in track and other athletic events), so the above list is moot.

Walcott, Bellerin, Aubameyang, Walker, Sterling, Sanchez, Reus, Ronaldo, Ibarbo, Neymar, Sinclair, Bale, Biabian, Yedlin, Musa, Jean....

NFL players regularly lift 400+ pounds and many jump 40+ inches too. JJ Watt does:



JJ Watt is like 6'7 and 280 pounds. Why aren't soccer players showing out like this?

Theres no Olympic event for bench pressing or vertical jumping, so your argument is moot.

No he doesn't participate in the Olympics, but his box jump is an example of an athletic feat, similar to what athletes show in the Olympics. This suffices for proving his ability as an athlete. Soccer players don't have any athletic feats whether it be in the Olympics, the gym, or otherwise. They are endurance runners and drug abusers.

Endurance running is an Olympic sport though.

 

[Deezy314619]

Most ppl can't relate to being 6'5"+ and (real) football requires too much equipment that poor mfs can't afford.

 

[StretfordRed]

Eh.

Football discussion in an American forum will normally have ignorant comments

I like American football and football. But it's clear to see why one is truly a global game and the other is a regional game

My local American football team just went bust as they couldn't afford the kit. Go figure

 

[hashmander]

Hockey is popular in Canada and Eastern Europe, Baseball is popular in Latin America and parts of Asia, while American Football is only popular in the US and nowhere else. You may have talked to some Brits that like the sport, but think about this, are there any British NFL players that were born, bred and raised in a Euro feeder system?


Nah breh, it's too expensive, one of the reasons why basketball is surging is all you need is a ball and hoop

That is one of the major reasons why soccer is the worlds top sport, all you need is a ball and nothing else. Football is cost prohibitive and it requires too many people to play, you can't play it by yourself like you can with other sports.

i love that hoop breh, the dedication.

 

[Antares]

Eh.

Football discussion in an American forum will normally have ignorant comments

I like American football and football. But it's clear to see why one is truly a global game and the other is a regional game

My local American football team just went bust as they couldn't afford the kit. Go figure

To play HandEgg you just need a ball...

Why the hell the equipment is a requirement? The equipment is a requirement if you are a p*ssy.

Rugby players don't use a shyt... MMA fighters don't use a shyt.

There was a time where HandEgg where played by men, nobody used p*ssy pads and helmet and yet nobody in the world played that boring sport.

 

[TTT]

Speed without the ball doesn't even begin to tell the whole story about being a soccer player, that's why you hardly hear anyone mentioning those stats offhand. A team can cover a speedster efficiently by their defensive shape like what Atletico Madrid does to Bale in many games. Ball control under pressure and at a high speed is a top level skill many players do not possess. It is easier if you have oceans of space behind the defense but in tight spaces it is a different story. The type of running depends on the position, strikers and wingers will run less but usually at higher speed than midfielders who are in constant motion. And with all due respect to some posters, playing soccer against other Americans is not exactly top level and doesn't give as much appreciation of what the game is about. It may look easier because of the level you are playing at. Henry's goal is a good example. The other ones that come to mind are

Kaka's run against Argentina


ESPN sports science analysis of Messi's goal against Bilbao

 

[koopz]

Americans are ignorant to soccer as a sport but soccer fans be showing they ass in threads like these.
"Here let me respond to your misconceptions about soccer with some misconceptions about football & basketball " Comparing sports and trying to say one is better or more "beautiful" is like comparing musical instruments. Both sides end up looking dumb as hell.

"The drums are clearly the better instrument cause its purely a poor mans instrument, all you need is some sticks and something to hit "

" Na bruh you just lack the talent & technicality to play something as intricate as a guitar. Sausage fingered ass nikka "

 

[dennis roadman]

Americans are ignorant to soccer as a sport but soccer fans be showing they ass in threads like these.
"Here let me respond to your misconceptions about soccer with some misconceptions about football & basketball " Comparing sports and trying to say one is better or more "beautiful" is like comparing musical instruments. Both sides end up looking dumb as hell.

"The drums are clearly the better instrument cause its purely a poor mans instrument, all you need is some sticks and something to hit "

" Na bruh you just lack the talent & technicality to play something as intricate as a guitar. Sausage fingered ass nikka "

bassoon shyts all over the oboe though

 

[Antares]

Americans are ignorant to soccer as a sport but soccer fans be showing they ass in threads like these.
"Here let me respond to your misconceptions about soccer with some misconceptions about football & basketball " Comparing sports and trying to say one is better or more "beautiful" is like comparing musical instruments. Both sides end up looking dumb as hell.

"The drums are clearly the better instrument cause its purely a poor mans instrument, all you need is some sticks and something to hit "

" Na bruh you just lack the talent & technicality to play something as intricate as a guitar. Sausage fingered ass nikka "

So Curling can be a better sport than Football, Rugby, Basketball, MMA?

 

[Silver Surfer]

soccer is a poor man's sport...and I mean 3rd world country poor

 

[koopz]

So Curling can be a better sport than Football, Rugby, Basketball, MMA?

Not better, but not worse either.

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Like, breh, soccer is soo fukking gay yo. Don't know how anyone with a social life would want to watch that All that two hours for just a 1-0 scoreline. These Euro trash need to take their poverty ball and

Am I doing it right?

Unacceptable

 

[R=G]

Like, breh, soccer is soo fukking gay yo. Don't know how anyone with a social life would want to watch that All that two hours for just a 1-0 scoreline. These Euro trash need to take their poverty ball and

Am I doing it right?

I like college female volleyball over that shyt....bodies are absurd and that's worth watching on this side.