<br /><br />Ken
I dont think just more goals is going to do it. I think the skill level of pro soccer is well beyond the understanding of the NFL and NASCAR crowds. Basically, unless you play the game you cant get a realistic understanding of the level of skill the world class players have. Watching some of the World Cup plays puts a world of tingle on me to see...just amazing skill and team work.
Typical soccer snob remark. I like NFL and NASCAR so I guess I'll never reach the intelligence level of the 6-30 year olds running around kicking a ball at soccer camp.<br />
Is that an example of the level I need to reach to understand pro soccer?
That must be why baseball is so big in Japan, and why every year now a few games of either football or baseball is played in different countries. Must also why football (though slightly different) has grown to Canada, and why NFL Europe is growing so much.<br /><br />I can watch soccer somewhat..........I prefer the indoor type, especially since the local team is probably one of the best in the country (Milwaukee Wave). I played soccer growing up for 7 years, also played football. Soccer is a finese sport, football is all about brute strength. To say football isnt a "smart mans game" is just plain stupid. If you say that, than clearly YOU have never played it. You have to be in the right place all the time......the one time you arent, you get burned. And if you think a 6th grader can read a nickel defense than you are a moron. It takes smarts, and if you dont have much of that you have to have a hell of a lot of natrual ability.
<br /><br />The acting I'm with you 110% on! The referees are supposed to clamping down hard on this but I'm not seeing a whole lot of evidence on it again this time around. Like has been said: football (soccer) is a contact sport and people do get badly hurt in it, sometimes with career-ending injuries. Problem is that the wussies that play the sport don't realise that is why they get paid mega-bucks over here to play (or not half the time!). <br /><br />It's been hilarious watching the news coverage on one of the England players and his injury (a fractured metatarsal). World events have often taken second-billing to this bloke and his broken toe <br />Seems a heck of a lot of people forget that there are ten other people on the team...................unless their all too scared to get hurt too? I was just teasing about the acting (hurt). I've never taught it, nor have I seen players taking a dive to draw a penalty. Soccer is a contact sport and when you get two players running full speed at one another with nothing more than shin guards, the collision is going to hurt. Just getting tripped or getting your lets tangled can be a simple fall or actually painful. There is definitely some acting/exagurating going on in World Cup Soccer.
Easy there Ron, easy.Originally posted by Ron G:<br /> After seeing this months issue of a certain mens magazine,im more interested in soccer
