Soccer is the root of all the worlds problems! It encourages hostility and tribalism and is encouraged by world governments as a way to appease and control the masses.
131392
Are you freaking nuts??????????????????\nHere football is uniting countries and destroying regionalism and you want to ban it.\nAnd I suppose we all should follow some dumb game like Cricket or Baseball.\nFootball is THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
662177
First, I'd just like to say that I know plenty of people who are extremely excited about the world cup. Like getting up in the middle of the night, having huge parties to watch the game, painting their faces, getting crazy and unruly excited about it. America as a whole is not a soccer country, but there are plenty of soccer fans in the U.S.\nSecond, while this guy was sort of an ass about his dislike of the sport, I do see his point. America gets a lot of criticism from the rest of the world for not liking soccer. But it's not like we are required to. If another country, smaller, less influential country chose not to be fanatic about a sport, no one would care. I think this is used as another chance to attack America. And, believe me, there are lots of reasons to dislike America (this coming from a proud American) but the fact that we generally dislike a sport that everyone else likes is a pretty superficial reason for attacking America. And I think that's what the author of the article is reacting to. He's being defensive because he's constantly being treated as having less intelligent, less complex (or whatever) taste just because he doesn't like soccer. \nSo, yeah, this guy is sort of a jerk. But you must not take his view as the one that all Americans have. And you should also understand that Americans are a little sick of people telling them that they SHOULD like soccer just because everyone else does.
648049
hmmm....  obviously you have offended the yahoo  people... you know they are  promoting the gay parade don't you? (it's true) and  you combining it with soccer...well...maybe they just  don't like sports that involve kicking balls..lol....it also has become quite fashionable to  insult/ hate our president.. though  this appears to be  mostly a liberal pursuit..... it gives them something to do between  pizza deliveries...
560480
Wow same!  I'm American and this is the first year I've even watched a soccer match without just taking a glance and dismissing it with boredom.  I don't know what about this year caught me, but now I'm really into the WC.  However, I think once this dies down, I'm not sure if I'm going to continue sating my apetite for soccer w/ national games (mainly cause I'm a staunch supporter of European teams).  Too bad the rest of America is too intrigued by our own brutish version of football to care about soccer.  It's merely a reflection of us as a country I guess, and it fits well with our war-mongering image.
639010
Several reasons.  One of the more entertaining that I heard is that since we cannot be the best at it (although we weren't the best at baseball in the world baseball classic, despite it being our "pastime") and so we aren't interested.  Although, wait until we do become the best, and then we'll give the world another reason to hate us.  Another reason I read about was that the sport in our country is put on the back burner, as far as fans see it.  While it doesnt receive the same attention as basketball's finals right now, the fan base is growing, and more and more stadiums in this country are being built just for soccer.  And there is a rumor that we might get David Beckham to play for the LA Galaxy in a couple or years...Another reason i have read about was that our youth leagues havent gained enough steam.  However, I would argue that youth league soccer is the second most popular to baseball in some or most parts of this country.  However, when you see kids playing in the playground, they arent playing soccer, they play touch football or something else.  But with the youth participation on the rise, I think this country will start to pour out some better and better players in the next decade.  All we need is to import a good coach for our national team (maybe we should steal a brazilian, like the portuguese did for this world cup).
557450
la notion de capitanat est defini au sein de l'equipe et n'as d'influence sur le jeu. Les seules categories de jouers definies dans la regele 3 , des regles du jeu dela FIFA est celle de gardien et de joueurs ( La Fifa definissant un minimum de 7 joueurs pour ses competitions mais laissan tle choix aux association nanitonale de definir le numero minimum) . Donc dans la situation que vous definissez il n'y a pas de violations des regles.
621944
you make a good point here. it makes no sense to argue over which sport is better. different people enjoy different sports, nothing wrong with that. \nwe should appreciate the spirit of the sport which is  fair competition and achieving performance through effort and self improvement\n\ni also like a lot of other sports beside football
215622
What.. this seems to be two seperate questions here!! Firstly, people get fanatical over football as it is a psychologicl substitute for war. \n\nSecondly... don't 'chead' on your girlfriend. Simple answer.
294648
football u and c when the world cup starts for a few weeks no one will care abut war, feuds, etc we will all have our eyes minds tuned to this beautiful tournament its a shame it only happens once every 4 years the world would b a much peaceful place if everything cud b decided by a game of footie, like it was at school, dont u think?
298983
dont do it its not save. people will actually do hateful things. even wearing a jersey could get you beat up. there are many stupid people waiting for someone to do something like that to start chaos and blame it on the whole world cup thing
668564
Because soccer is boring you accidentally touch someone its a foul we already have a sport like that also more entertaining than soccer called basketball.  Americans just know how to play sports to entertain the europeans are a bunch of a s s grabing queers
138957
The U.S. simply doesn't have the talent or speed to handle other teams around the world. You know a team will suck if their best player plays in the MLS. Oh and the NFL sucks the big one, NFL is almost or as gay as high school wresting.
660309
Agreed.  \nBut then look at Ireland... Soccer is a sub sport (Eiercom League) compared to GAA.  Granted the Ireland International squad consists mainly of premiership or Championship Div. players and is decent although didn't qualify Euro 2004 or World Cup 2006.  But Gaelic sports are still No. 1 here.
364597
As a soccer player myself, I have had that feeling of it being all my fault also. Soccer is a team sport, you win as a team and you lose as a team, and it's never one player's fault. If the forwards could have kept the ball up in the other half then maybe your opponent wouldn't have got the ball and took it down the field. So never think of it being just one person's fault because it never is.
618034
and is this related to soccer how?
648472
OK I know that the English/Europeans call it Football because the game is played with the skills of the foot etc, but I'm an Aussie and we call it soccer too. I don't understand why you guys get so bent out of shape over what other countries relate to as the name or code of a game or sport. Countries are different and have different names for more things that the codes of sport. You call it football, we call it soccer, we say footy, you guys say league. It doesn't matter. Whatever it's called isn't the point, the point is the game and people's love and support for it. Celebrate our differences in language and grammar, it's what makes each of our countries and sports unique. It's not meant as an offence. It;s just the way it is.
615278
Everything is wrong with this picture. This by far has been the worst world cup ever and it is due to the incompence of Sepp Blater and Fifa. Fifa is a ban on football kowtowing to the Uefa countries and laundering money for them while football in Africa, Asia and South America suffers.