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Yes, if only you would build a lot of stadiums and put it in school curriculum and spend a lot of money to promote the sport so that clubs would get sponsorship contracts so they would open youth clubs and youth would want to play in those clubs than it stands to reason that in a few decades you'll get pretty good in football.
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Being good as soccer isn’t about athletics, it’s about which team has the best actors. If we put Hollywood’s elite together to form a soccer team, they would be unstoppable.
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Mar 12, 2019 10:01
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Pawn 17 posted:Being good as soccer isn’t about athletics, it’s about which team has the best actors. If we put Hollywood’s elite together to form a soccer team, they would be unstoppable. Team shazam. Ouch my body. Ref!
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Mar 12, 2019 10:02
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Americans invented a bunch of sports barely anyone else plays because they were bad at the ones everyone else does play
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Mar 12, 2019 10:19
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Aesop Poprock posted:The punter is literally just the guy with the big boot from the Australia Simpsons episode and every team just takes turns with him I dont really follow sport, but as a child my favourite aussie rules football player (and a distant relative) was Stav Rocca. After destroying his body in his long AFL career he milked a few more years of paid professional athletics by moving to the US and playing in a lesser NFL team, with his singular remaining physical capability of being really tall and capable of kicking a ball far when standing stationary. Before anyone tries to own me by mocking my country's insignificant niche football code please be aware that the only sport I believe anyone should take national pride in is endurance gay sex.
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Mar 12, 2019 10:29
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Moon Atari posted:I dont really follow sport, but as a child my favourite aussie rules football player (and a distant relative) was Stav Rocca. After destroying his body in his long AFL career he milked a few more years of paid professional athletics by moving to the US and playing in a lesser NFL team, with his singular remaining physical capability of being really tall and capable of kicking a ball far when standing stationary. You don't have to feel ashamed by AFL, not when the NRL is filled with literal dog fuckers anyway.
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Mar 12, 2019 10:38
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Moon Atari posted:I believe anyone should take national pride in is endurance gay sex. That's every sub who watches rugby
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Mar 12, 2019 10:40
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Jose posted:Americans invented a bunch of sports barely anyone else plays because they were bad at the ones everyone else does play barely anyone else plays them because you can't play them with nothing but a large empty field and a dream to play american football you need 22 heavily padded millionaires wearing plastic helmets and matching capris to dance under explosions and concuss each other while rock music plays, and you broke bastards just won't admit that you can't afford it
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Mar 12, 2019 11:06
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Soccer is like America's 6th ranked sport moneywise (i.e they get the absolute dregs of talented athletes) and they still manage to be competative every once in awhile on a world stage. Gotta let the rest of the world feel good about something I suppose.
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Mar 12, 2019 11:13
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Do association football leagues in america have relegation or is it the same bullshit system as american football where it's fine to be last all the time?
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Mar 12, 2019 11:33
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Moon Atari posted:endurance gay sex. I'm straight but I feel like I have a chance at a professional career at this as a power top.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Do association football leagues in america have relegation or is it the same bullshit system as american football where it's fine to be last all the time? You already know the answer
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Mar 12, 2019 12:20
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Considering the bedrock of football is outspending the other team I’m frankly amazed it’s not the national sport of the US. Get those salaries into the hundreds of millions, pump up the numbers! Who can have the first trillion dollar wage bill for a bunch of dudes rolling around on the floor?
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Mar 12, 2019 12:35
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bitterandtwisted posted:Do association football leagues in america have relegation or is it the same bullshit system as american football where it's fine to be last all the time? American football leagues are literally communist
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Mar 12, 2019 12:40
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The only reason Americans think they don’t like soccer is the low scores. Introduce Gaelic football scoring rules imo
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Mar 12, 2019 12:48
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Pit the Tampa Bay Lightning against Bayern Munich and I'd watch it.
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Mar 12, 2019 13:04
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Cubone posted:no, I couldn't, because the athleticism of soccer is not real to me I mean, I'm no soccer man but this just sounds like a dumb opinion all over possibly crafted to be annoyingly dumb or sourced from somewhere else. I find it hard to believe that anyone could ignore the constant sprinting up and down the pitch and all of this sort of nonsense that goes on every match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdn9r5X25XA
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Mar 12, 2019 13:36
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Yeah OP, you want a couple guys like Cam and Lebron to play goalie and defense, but you want smaller guys that are really quick and fast, Kyler Murray would be a really good soccer player imho, source, watched upwards of 2 soccer games in my life.
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Mar 12, 2019 14:00
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you know what would make soccer more exciting? if it was played on ice instead of grass, and everybody ran around on these sharp steel blades, and instead of kicking the ball you have big sticks you can hit it with and also hit the other players when the refs aren't watching, and you can punch them sometimes too and just get a few minutes penalty oh wait
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Cubone posted:no, I couldn't, because the athleticism of soccer is not real to me If there isn't someone who is morbidly obese and who's only job is sprinting a tiny distance quickly well it's just not really athletic
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Mar 12, 2019 14:59
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*bursts into thread, falls down and rolls on the ground howling in pain for 15 minutes*
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Michael Corleone posted:Yeah OP, you want a couple guys like Cam and Lebron to play goalie and defense, but you want smaller guys that are really quick and fast, Kyler Murray would be a really good soccer player imho, source, watched upwards of 2 soccer games in my life. Lol do you not think lebron is fast?
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Mar 12, 2019 17:35
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Fat Jesus posted:eurokickyball is for children too soft for real football Thats why rugby was invented.
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Torquemada posted:Considering the bedrock of football is outspending the other team I’m frankly amazed it’s not the national sport of the US. Get those salaries into the hundreds of millions, pump up the numbers! Who can have the first trillion dollar wage bill for a bunch of dudes rolling around on the floor? The barrier to entry is too low. All you need to play soccer is a ball and a relatively flat surface. You can put down two water bottles as the goal. Americans prefer a real high barrier so the poors can't join. They barely tolerate basketball
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Mar 12, 2019 17:42
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Savage For The Winjun posted:Lol do you not think lebron is fast? Soccer is a sport about distance running much more so than sprinting. If you want to play at the top level as an outfield player, you pretty much need to run 5-7 miles every game. Basketball players run about half that.
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Mar 12, 2019 17:54
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Up until a few years ago I couldn't wrap my mind around why the US is so poo poo at soccer, until someone finally explained their league system and how players are scouted.
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Mar 12, 2019 17:55
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Ka0 posted:Up until a few years ago I couldn't wrap my mind around why the US is so poo poo at soccer, until someone finally explained their league system and how players are scouted. Yeah its pretty fuckin wild lol
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Mar 12, 2019 17:59
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i wish america would just fuckin end already
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Mar 12, 2019 18:08
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Yeah, but they play Real Sports instead.
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Mar 12, 2019 18:14
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americans hearts would explode if we tried to play a sport where they didn't stop play every 3 minutes for a commercial break.
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Mar 12, 2019 18:26
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play lacrosse, the truest american sport
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Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking.
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The United States womens team does pretty well.  idk
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Mu Zeta posted:NFL players are getting fatter and fatter these days. They couldn't handle running ~9 miles per game. Dude I dont think theyd be using NFL players in this hypothetical US dominated soccer leauge
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Soccer isn’t even a real sport like college football
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Americans will always dominate in sports we care about, unless you think european women don't care about poo poo like soccer or tennis We're a rich country with a shitload of inequality, and sports are like the best way to lift yourself out of poverty if you 100% devote your life to them at which point you are uplifted from your misery and given the full might of our nation's money and technology in order to succeed It's a pretty brilliant system, and it's working as intended
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Moon Atari posted:I dont really follow sport, but as a child my favourite aussie rules football player (and a distant relative) was Stav Rocca. After destroying his body in his long AFL career he milked a few more years of paid professional athletics by moving to the US and playing in a lesser NFL team, with his singular remaining physical capability of being really tall and capable of kicking a ball far when standing stationary. Yeah I remember him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T9NMOjZDMk
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We care so little that actresses can use soccer team athletic recuitment positions to funnel bribes to get their kids into top schools and nobody notices that they can barely play...
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America needs another sport for middle sized white guys to play. Hockey can only absorb so many 5'7" white dudes.
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