what is the main reason why most americans dont like soccer?
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the main reason is, get ready..........\n\nthey need instant gratification.  not enough scoring, the most commonly used excuse.  look at all the other sports.  i am american and love the sport.  i played it all my life.  one day, americans will get it.  it's the best sport in the world.  you need to be athletic, passionate, hard-working, and most of all, smart.
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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.
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It seems that Americans prefer sports that originated here (baseball, basketball, football). However, interest in soccer is growing here, especially since a huge number of kids participate in youth soccer leagues (much more than football or baseball, primarily because more girls play soccer). I think soon, soccer will be big here as well.\n\nAs for your friends, tell them to go to England, or France, or Mexico, and tell soccer fans there that they're gay. Seriously, soccer fans around the world make Raider fans look like the girl scouts.
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I think it's stupid to make your argument "soccer is not popular in the US because of shootouts."  If that was a reason for soccer to not be popular, then it wouldn't be popular not ONLY in the US but in other parts of the world as well.  Why is it that US fans exclusively can't like soccer because of that?  I'm not saying that shootouts are good or that Americans should like football, but it's absolutely ridiculous to limit this reason to why Americans don't like it.  There are many other plausible reasons for why the US is not a soccer-dominated country.  We have other "American" sports (football, baseball, etc.).  It's like why Canada's hockey is so popular while hockey's not so hot in say, France.  Also, you can't compare two sports; as the cliche goes, it's like comparing apples and oranges.  Baseball and soccer both have their good/bad points, but they are completely different sports played different ways.  Baseball is definitely less physical, because you don't see the players running around every single minute of the game; most of the time they stand there and then when making plays, they run around and throw the ball.  I don't claim to be a great expert on either sport, but once again, not liking shootouts and thus not liking soccer is not a reason exclusive to American fans for not liking soccer.\n\nOkay, now to answer the other part of your lengthy question lol.  I think shoot-outs are a clean-cut way of determining the winner in a match.  You shoot goals; make them, you win.  Miss some, you lose, go home.  They test the individual skills of the players and while I do regret that they don't test the strength of a team as a whole, they do eliminate one major problem that people have with soccer matches: biased refs.  Here, the ref can't call fouls where there are none and if a goal goes in, fans can't complain that somehow the ref was paid off to look the other way.  In a sudden death match, the winners' fans would celebrate and the lowers would always see something wrong or corrupted about how they just weren't lucky.  While the argument could be made that in a normal round, this happens all the time, so why not just have that determine the end, you have to realize how difficult it is to play such a physically challenging sport as soccer for such long periods of time lol.  What if the game went on for a whole day without an end, like in Harry Potter's Quidditch?  That may not seem plausible, but it certainly would be possible.  Lastly, I think it's only fair that each team knows how much time they have to score a goal rather than just seeing who scores first.  In such a case, I can definitely see the match getting increasingly dirtier as each team must not only score/defend, they know that under no condition can they allow the other team to make a goal.\n\nxexect - About your message, sorry if I seemed harsh :/.  I'm not trying to insult you yourself, but rather, I felt that your argument was flawed.  However, judging by what you have written and your analysis on the other part of the question, I would definitely say that you're not stupid!
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The answer is QUITE simple:WE DON'T CARE ABOUT SOCCER!\n\nTHE US RULES!!
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1st of all its not soccer!!!!!! it called football!!!! in the USA all these incidents dont occur cuz the US fans r not as passionate as european fans bout their clubs... look at the south americans 4 eg. the match b/w river n boca...
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U.S.A. is most overated, ranked 4th in the world cup, please. The reason is because they are trying to market 'soccer' in the U.S.A. Its all a marketing strategy to promote soccer in USA.
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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.
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Most south americans are good at soccer because:\n-it is their main sport, here theres no single sport that the entire nation likes and watches, in south america, its soccer (futbol, rather)\n-kids grow up playing it, its what they do in their spare time. even nowadays most kids in south america don't have video games, so they all play in the streets and in the school courtyards and stuff\n\nsorry, that came out sounding very stereotypical, but it wasn't intentional.
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Americans, in general, are not too interested in soccer even if US is playing.  The exception are the many Imigrants who will watch and root for their birth country's team.
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Basically everyone is either true to their personal country or against it. Not everyone in the US believes we are better at soccer,but the ones who do think that are loud in their belief.
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definetly it is the sport of the world america is about the only place on the planet that doesnt rate soccer as its favorite sport
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I assume you mean, for us Americans, soccer.  If you were American, you'd know how very few outside America play American "football," and you'd say soccer.  You can't possibly be so arrogant an Amerrican (of course they are many) to think that American football matters elsewhere.  For all of the rest of the world, without exception and without a doubt, and I've lived all over, football, or per American English, soccer is the main sport.  People may play basketball, cricket, or tennis, but nothing occupies the sports scene like football.  It's the world national pastime.  Every kid in the world, boy and girl, with or without the right numbers of players or a stadium has kicked a ball trying to score, growing up.  Every country wants the World Cup.  Billions watch it.  The main sport on earth...
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well, most people who say soccer is slow dont watch baseball or golf.\n\nalso people dont score enough.\n\nlol they should change the scoreing thing so its like 100 points a goal.\n\nalso in america you're cheering for a state, most of which are larger than the countrys you cheer for in soccer.
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Because football mirrors the American psyche better than any of the other major sports. Americans find "soccer" boring because there simply isn't enough scoring. Baseball, which used to be America's game is much too analytical and the action is too intermittent. Basketball has become more of a "black" sport for middle America. Hockey is too much of a "Northern" sport.\n\nWhich leaves football which is popular in every region of the country.Actually, football is different than it was 100 years ago, which illustrates one of the reasons football is popular- the rules can be changed slightly or even in bigger ways to make it more exciting. In baseball, you can't change the rules without purists crying foul. In football, they change the rules in subtle ways almost every year to make it more exciting.
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if running back and forth after a ball is boring then all sports are boring because when you think about it...all sports involve chasing a ball\n\namericans don't have what it takes to play soccer. In fact, USA is the only country in the whole world who doesn't like soccer. What does that tell you?
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Its because we don't have a chance for it to grow on us. America is a culture that relies on the media heavily. Soccer isn't made for tv. It would be impossible to show commercials or anything like that. All of the other sports in America actually make breaks so that they can show commercials. Soccer just wouldn't fit in with what most people are used to. Therefore no big network would risk it.