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Why does America suck at soccer?
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:55 PM Author: zombie-like plaza trump supporter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796815) |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:56 PM Author: anal peach athletic conference All our good athletes go into other sports. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796825) |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:58 PM Author: zombie-like plaza trump supporter hypo: all US national/olympic team members are offered $5M/yr contracts
does this make us better? |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:59 PM Author: Motley brindle trailer park That's insulting to NBA and NFL stars (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796852) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:00 AM Author: zombie-like plaza trump supporter how many current NBA/NFL stars are elite soccer players?
i don't see much overlap |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:01 AM Author: Motley brindle trailer park None of them trained for soccer, pumbro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796873) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:03 AM Author: zombie-like plaza trump supporter steve nash and chad ochocinco come to mind
olajuwon was a soccer player originally |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:00 AM Author: diverse ratface is this a long term project? you have to start soccer before the age of 10 at the latest. it's not like basketball, football, boxing which you can pick up in a few years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796865) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:59 AM Author: provocative liquid oxygen place of business lol like what? because literally zero mlb/nfl/nba types are suited to play fifa level soccer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797398) |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:58 PM Author: heady point america invented baseball because she couldn't compete in cricket. america invented gridiron football because she couldn't compete in rugby/football (euro) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796839) |
Date: May 30th, 2012 11:57 PM Author: histrionic regret all of our players except dempsey and howard are midgets or castoffs from other countries (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796835) |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:59 PM Author: diverse ratface dempsey is world class these days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796850) |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:59 PM Author: histrionic regret i dont disagree, but he's hurt all the time and he cant do it alone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796856) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:05 AM Author: Lascivious bawdyhouse wtf? he played 37 of 38 EPL games this year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796902) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:14 AM Author: histrionic regret he's also been hurt the last three weeks and missed a game and a half when he's the team's most impt player
we were damn lucky he played in South Africa at all. his aggressiveness is one of his best traits but also one of his biggest vulnerabilities. |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:35 AM Author: Lascivious bawdyhouse oh, so the last 3 weeks is "all the time" now? he's played in 175 of the last 190 premier league games. very few wingers/strikers play that many games over a 5 year span (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797169) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:41 AM Author: histrionic regret i'll be honest bro, i don't really give a fuck about fucking fulham.
he's missed multiple national team games (of which there are fewer, thus each more important) in 2009, 2010, and 2012 due to injury. |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:00 AM Author: Motley brindle trailer park Just wait until 2030 when we're half Mexican. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796859) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:00 AM Author: histrionic regret thats why Dempsey is good, he played only against Mexicans growing up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796864) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:02 AM Author: Thriller sanctuary he's good because he's the best. the roaches he played against in nagadoches weren't shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796877) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:02 AM Author: diverse ratface mexicans are not that good though. in fact, for a country of 120mm with soccer as their #1 sport they're pretty piss poor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796879) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:04 AM Author: 180 mint alpha and a lot of the ones in the US are from regions of mexico where baseball is more popular (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796896) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:08 AM Author: diverse ratface plus they're fat as fuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796929) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:11 AM Author: 180 mint alpha coppin dat pan dulce, chicharrones, horchata, sopapillas, agua frescas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796952) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:00 AM Author: Contagious maize abode hominid It's a stupid sport and we have the money to play better ones.
Why would you want to kick a ball around like a retard when you can play a sport with precision with your hands. |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:04 AM Author: 180 mint alpha it's identified too much as a kid's sport
our white european population is too removed from europe by too many generations
a big share of our hispanics are from northern mexico followed by the caribbean and those places prefer baseball
filipinos are a big share of our asian population - again, baseball |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:11 AM Author: diverse ratface well, it should be a kid's sport. you have to start young. I don't think kid stars stop playing once they reach adolescence. probably only the mediocre ones.
filipinos play basketball. |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:06 AM Author: Ocher vigorous roommate pocket flask Our best athletes don't play it.
Case solved!! |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:07 AM Author: Lascivious bawdyhouse this argument sure makes americans feel better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796918) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:09 AM Author: Ocher vigorous roommate pocket flask Yes because if it's one thing Americans care about its soccer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796936) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:11 AM Author: Lascivious bawdyhouse Yet we have so many posts from "non-soccer fans" wondering why we're so bad. Americans hate losing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796950) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:07 AM Author: heady point Wait! Wasn't Freddy Adu supposed to be the next Maradona? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796914) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:08 AM Author: nubile laughsome candlestick maker It doesn't. But it is not truly elite like Brazil or Spain or Netherlands either. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20796924) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:17 AM Author: diverse ratface i thought we looked decent against brazil. we played an open game which led to us giving up 4 goals but that's okay during a friendly. you have to learn how to not simply bunker if you want to be elite. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797004) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:16 AM Author: green trip stage our kids grow up with poor coaching in poor youth set ups. america is the only country where kids have to pay to play soccer.
also, kids leagues are 11-on-11 and played on adult-sized fields with adult-sized goals. kids aren't able to get enough touches on the ball to develop technique, and they have to resort to lumping it through the air to get it down the field. in spain and holland, kids only play 5-on-5 or 7-on-7 on half-sized fields. in brazil and argentina, they play futsal.
lastly, americans care about victory above all else, even in kids leagues. as a result, athletic kids dominate even when they have shitty technique. smaller, slower kids don't have a chance to improve, while athletic kids coast by on their temporary advantage. |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:31 AM Author: diverse ratface 'america is the only country where kids have to pay to play soccer.'
you mean they're forced?
rest seems credited |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:35 AM Author: Lascivious bawdyhouse (mitt romney) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797173) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:36 AM Author: green trip stage i mean parents have to pay for their kids to play soccer in competitive leagues
that's not the case in europe. each nation's football association funds their youth programs so parents don't have to pay. this gives poor kids like wayne rooney a chance. |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:42 AM Author: diverse ratface yeah, a soccer player has to be groomed from early childhood like a gymnast.
in south america it's mostly the top clubs that sponsor youth academies, isn't it? i thought that was the case in europe as well.
i suppose american clubs don't have enough history yet to consider a long term project like that. |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:43 AM Author: Spruce fragrant site fortuitous meteor wrong. clubs primarily fund the youth programs, not the national associations. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797243) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:48 AM Author: green trip stage this is essentially true. i was referring more to the schoolboy/sunday/non-league programs that any kid can sign up for, not the club youth programs which recruit and sign kids.
EDIT: although in England, the FA does also partially funds league clubs' youth programs |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 5:35 PM Author: hilarious jet parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49980231) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:43 AM Author: Bossy home becky because we don't give a shit about soccer and never will. sorry, libs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797246) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:45 AM Author: Spruce fragrant site fortuitous meteor o rly? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItKfVHMQ108 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797258) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:47 AM Author: histrionic regret to be fair, the World Cup and Gold Cup both beat the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Finals in those years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797275) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:49 AM Author: diverse ratface how about the olympic hockey finals? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797296) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:51 AM Author: histrionic regret im sure those were higher, olympics are a different jingoistic animal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797317) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:52 AM Author: diverse ratface so are the world and gold cups. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797338) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:53 AM Author: histrionic regret the charge was "we don't give a shit about soccer and never will" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797342) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:56 AM Author: Bossy home becky should have been "we don't give a shit about soccer for more than 2 weeks at a time and never will" i stand corrected (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797373) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:56 AM Author: histrionic regret in fairness bro outside of the NFL for what sport is this true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797381) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:59 AM Author: Bossy home becky baseball, basketball, and to a lesser extent, golf and hockey (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797395) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:54 AM Author: Spruce fragrant site fortuitous meteor Referring to WC 2010 ticket purchases, "According to the South African organizing committee and FIFA, soccer's international governing body, more than 130,000 of the 2.8 million tickets were purchased by U.S. residents, the highest total by any country other than South Africa." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797355) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:52 AM Author: Shaky razzle school cafeteria juggernaut not enough opportunities for commercial breaks. cut each half in half, make timeouts mandatory before PKs and free kicks, give every team a bunch of 30 second timeouts to use. then watch the game flourish. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797329) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:54 AM Author: diverse ratface timeouts are so gay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797352) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:58 AM Author: Shaky razzle school cafeteria juggernaut why do you hate america bro? the endless lite beer and pickup truck commercials filled with eagles and shit are what makes are baseball, football, and ncaa tournament great. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797388) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:58 AM Author: Thriller sanctuary shut up faggot it's not because you don't like how the nba and nfl are run its because athletic americans don't play soccer. they never will (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797393) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:59 AM Author: green trip stage sadly true. no major network will give it a chance unless they can cop dat ad revenue.
at least fox has started showing the champions league final and some marquee premiership games (i remember seeing spurs-arsenal on fox, although it wasn't live) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 1:00 AM Author: Thriller sanctuary lol not live enjoy that faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797412) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 1:02 AM Author: provocative liquid oxygen place of business cr lol at this countttry |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 1:12 AM Author: Shaky razzle school cafeteria juggernaut soccer's already passed hockey nationally. but for the next decade it will be the favorite sport of lib cities like seattle that don't have other traditional teams and mid-size cities in the southwest and midwest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797543) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 1:13 AM Author: Thriller sanctuary not a single professional soccer player coming from those places in the next 20 years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797553) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 1:30 AM Author: Shaky razzle school cafeteria juggernaut i think they'll have no problem finding pro soccer players from mexican communities in the southwest.
does the pacific NW produce any athletes? |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 1:31 AM Author: green trip stage kasey keller is from the seattle area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20797689) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 7:46 AM Author: Cyan pontificating corner really tough guy The US isn't that bad. We've won the same number of world cups as the Dutch, and only one less than Spain, England and France. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#20798550) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 8:22 PM Author: Pale Nibblets doing surprisingly well in 2026, actually
rooting for norway to win it all though, for obvious reasons |
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Date: July 2nd, 2026 11:32 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49976499) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 4:44 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49980169) |
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Date: July 5th, 2026 7:39 PM Author: Pale Nibblets NORWAY MIGHT ACTUALLY WIN THE WORLD CUP
180000000000000000000000000 |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 7:31 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49982501) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 8:25 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49982663) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 9:01 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49982788) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 9:55 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49982972) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 10:11 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49983063) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 10:11 PM Author: Onyx Indirect Expression how did South Korea do?
LOLLERCAUSTERING |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 10:13 PM Author: Pale Nibblets im on team norway bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49983072) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 10:31 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49983125) |
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Date: July 7th, 2026 7:40 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49984942) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 7:08 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49987071) |
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Date: July 12th, 2026 8:56 PM Author: Pale Nibblets RIP norway (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49995297) |
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Date: July 14th, 2026 7:48 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#50000415) |
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Date: July 15th, 2026 6:14 PM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#50002636) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 12:09 AM Author: nyuug (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#50011279) |
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Date: July 7th, 2026 3:08 AM Author: Pale Nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49983367) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2026 11:37 PM Author: well-lubricated vermilion market USA is playing awesome so far but got jobbed by the refs pretty bad on the Balogun red card, as well as missing an obvious foul that would've given him another goal or penalty shot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49976506) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 7:32 PM Author: exciting location not enuf immigration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49982503) |
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Date: July 7th, 2026 3:22 AM Author: Fantasy-prone chartreuse church building goal in life Soccer is dumb and gay and meant for poor third world retards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49983368) |
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Date: July 7th, 2026 3:25 AM Author: Pale Nibblets "white nationalism", folks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#49983369) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 12:30 AM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, Everyone is always focused on organized soccer, but the problem isn't organized soccer - it's that soccer is irrelevant outside of organized soccer.
When you drive through a shithole country, all they have is a field and some makeshift goals. People of all ages are playing in pick up games.
Every American kid at school has the option of like 30 activities - including basketball and football - both of which are way more fun to play. On top of that, Americans are watching football, basketball and baseball. Kids spend their afternoons playing video games, riding bikes and scooters, swimming, taking piano lessons, etc.
My kid plays some youth soccer. He's actually way faster and more athletic than the Hispanic kids. But you can tell that they play and actually watch soccer all the time. They spend their time at home constantly dribbling the soccer ball, whereas my kid only touches a soccer ball during those 8 or so practices and games during the season.
Even if we did commit to soccer and start putting him in a more competitive league, he'd still probably only play in that setting. There is not a neighborhood soccer game he could play in every night, and he would still probably play basketball or tag at recess with his friends. |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 12:32 AM Author: nyuug homosexual marriage, gay pedophiles adopting and raping male babies, and tranny bathrooms are all things third worlders should emulate, agreed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#50011295) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 12:50 AM Author: ,,,,.,,,,.,.,,.....,.,,.,...,,.. Why does South Korea suck at soccer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#50011312) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 12:54 AM Author: nyuug bonnie blue is korean bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2Vannesa#50011314) |