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Why does America suck at soccer?
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:55 PM Author: pea-brained godawful elastic band (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796815) |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:56 PM Author: dark concupiscible indian lodge All our good athletes go into other sports. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796825) |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:58 PM Author: pea-brained godawful elastic band 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: mustard ladyboy step-uncle's house That's insulting to NBA and NFL stars (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796852) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:00 AM Author: pea-brained godawful elastic band 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: mustard ladyboy step-uncle's house None of them trained for soccer, pumbro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796873) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:03 AM Author: pea-brained godawful elastic band 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: rusted nursing home 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=2~#20796865) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:59 AM Author: exhilarant dog poop death wish 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=2~#20797398) |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:58 PM Author: beady-eyed navy brunch stain 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=2~#20796839) |
Date: May 30th, 2012 11:57 PM Author: galvanic internet-worthy pisswyrm area 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=2~#20796835) |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:59 PM Author: rusted nursing home dempsey is world class these days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796850) |
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Date: May 30th, 2012 11:59 PM Author: galvanic internet-worthy pisswyrm area 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=2~#20796856) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:05 AM Author: exciting organic girlfriend wtf? he played 37 of 38 EPL games this year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796902) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:14 AM Author: galvanic internet-worthy pisswyrm area 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: exciting organic girlfriend 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=2~#20797169) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:41 AM Author: galvanic internet-worthy pisswyrm area 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: mustard ladyboy step-uncle's house Just wait until 2030 when we're half Mexican. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796859) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:00 AM Author: galvanic internet-worthy pisswyrm area thats why Dempsey is good, he played only against Mexicans growing up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796864) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:02 AM Author: Vivacious low-t fat ankles 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=2~#20796877) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:02 AM Author: rusted nursing home 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=2~#20796879) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:04 AM Author: sable appetizing stage brethren 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=2~#20796896) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:08 AM Author: rusted nursing home plus they're fat as fuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796929) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:11 AM Author: sable appetizing stage brethren coppin dat pan dulce, chicharrones, horchata, sopapillas, agua frescas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796952) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:00 AM Author: garnet free-loading corner 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: sable appetizing stage brethren 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: rusted nursing home 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: swashbuckling station main people Our best athletes don't play it.
Case solved!! |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:07 AM Author: exciting organic girlfriend this argument sure makes americans feel better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796918) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:09 AM Author: swashbuckling station main people Yes because if it's one thing Americans care about its soccer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796936) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:11 AM Author: exciting organic girlfriend 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=2~#20796950) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:07 AM Author: beady-eyed navy brunch stain Wait! Wasn't Freddy Adu supposed to be the next Maradona? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20796914) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:08 AM Author: wonderful brilliant theater 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=2~#20796924) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:17 AM Author: rusted nursing home 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=2~#20797004) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:16 AM Author: Slap-happy Selfie 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: rusted nursing home '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: exciting organic girlfriend (mitt romney) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797173) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:36 AM Author: Slap-happy Selfie 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: rusted nursing home 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: Electric market wrong. clubs primarily fund the youth programs, not the national associations. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797243) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:48 AM Author: Slap-happy Selfie 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: diverse resort idea he suggested (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#49980231) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:43 AM Author: pearly vengeful center 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=2~#20797246) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:45 AM Author: Electric market o rly? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItKfVHMQ108 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797258) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:47 AM Author: galvanic internet-worthy pisswyrm area 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=2~#20797275) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:49 AM Author: rusted nursing home how about the olympic hockey finals? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797296) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:51 AM Author: galvanic internet-worthy pisswyrm area im sure those were higher, olympics are a different jingoistic animal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797317) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:52 AM Author: rusted nursing home so are the world and gold cups. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797338) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:53 AM Author: galvanic internet-worthy pisswyrm area 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=2~#20797342) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:56 AM Author: pearly vengeful center 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=2~#20797373) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:56 AM Author: galvanic internet-worthy pisswyrm area in fairness bro outside of the NFL for what sport is this true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797381) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:59 AM Author: pearly vengeful center baseball, basketball, and to a lesser extent, golf and hockey (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797395) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:54 AM Author: Electric market 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=2~#20797355) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:52 AM Author: costumed office 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=2~#20797329) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:54 AM Author: rusted nursing home timeouts are so gay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797352) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:58 AM Author: costumed office 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=2~#20797388) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:58 AM Author: Vivacious low-t fat ankles 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=2~#20797393) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 12:59 AM Author: Slap-happy Selfie 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: Vivacious low-t fat ankles lol not live enjoy that faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797412) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 1:02 AM Author: exhilarant dog poop death wish cr lol at this countttry |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 1:12 AM Author: costumed office 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=2~#20797543) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 1:13 AM Author: Vivacious low-t fat ankles 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=2~#20797553) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 1:30 AM Author: costumed office 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: Slap-happy Selfie kasey keller is from the seattle area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#20797689) |
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Date: May 31st, 2012 7:46 AM Author: Balding Parlour 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=2~#20798550) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2026 11:37 PM Author: stirring fantasy-prone native 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=2~#49976506) |
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Date: July 7th, 2026 3:22 AM Author: Cream contagious space Soccer is dumb and gay and meant for poor third world retards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#49983368) |
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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 12:50 AM Author: ,,,,.,,,,.,.,,.....,.,,.,...,,.. Why does South Korea suck at soccer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960272&forum_id=2~#50011312) |
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