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World Soccer XVI: The Sadness
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Re: World Soccer XVI: The Sadness
The thing I don't get about the "soccer isn't an American sport" is, well, baseball evolved from a European game, as did football. Hockey's not originally American. The only two sports that are genuinely formulated in the US are basketball and lacrosse.
Thank you Uruguay. And Red Cloud, I would've loved it if the US got far and the Glenn Becks of the world had to choose between their nativism and their patriotism. Their heads would have exploded at that point.
The thing I don't get about the "soccer isn't an American sport" is, well, baseball evolved from a European game, as did football. Hockey's not originally American. The only two sports that are genuinely formulated in the US are basketball and lacrosse.
MountieBoyOz
Eater of Worlds
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Make the world a better place, punch Kevin Prince Boateng in the face.
Make the world a better place, punch Kevin Prince Boateng in the face.
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That's fine, just my opinion...and I've played/watched soccer my whole life. Slide tackling increases each step along the way. I just don't like it. I think there's too much of it and to me represents laziness.
That's fine, just my opinion...and I've played/watched soccer my whole life. Slide tackling increases each step along the way. I just don't like it. I think there's too much of it and to me represents laziness.
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QFT.
EDIT: Ooh! Keeper almost accomplishes this but foolishly punches the ball instead!
QFT.
EDIT: Ooh! Keeper almost accomplishes this but foolishly punches the ball instead!
MountieBoyOz
Eater of Worlds
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Logic is something the far left and right do not practice that much.
Logic is something the far left and right do not practice that much.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
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There's a great picture of me in high school playing keeper where there was a challenge for a ball in the air and the shot was taken at the EXACT moment my fist is going through another players face. It was priceless.
Nothing dirty, just a highly contested ball.
There's a great picture of me in high school playing keeper where there was a challenge for a ball in the air and the shot was taken at the EXACT moment my fist is going through another players face. It was priceless.
Nothing dirty, just a highly contested ball.
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Sounds like that would make for a good profile picture.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
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Yeah, I have no idea where it is anymore though....
Sounds like that would make for a good profile picture.
Yeah, I have no idea where it is anymore though....
WeWantMore
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I thought the ref got that one right. He had his shorts pulled, but he also went down way too easily in my eyes.
I thought the ref got that one right. He had his shorts pulled, but he also went down way too easily in my eyes.
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the type of call you don't know for sure which way it will go. especially given some of the reffing we've seen.
the type of call you don't know for sure which way it will go. especially given some of the reffing we've seen.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
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I'm not bitter about ****. I hate italy too. Just because they beat us doesn't mean it excuses the entire team from acting like a bunch of douch*bags.
a little bitter, eh?
I'm not bitter about ****. I hate italy too. Just because they beat us doesn't mean it excuses the entire team from acting like a bunch of douch*bags.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
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That's fine, if you like watching a team of cheaters and actors, that's your prerogative.
Edit: Again, i've had this opinion since I started playing. Italy, ghana, most of the latin and south american teams. Whatever. if you dive, I don't like you.
That's fine, if you like watching a team of cheaters and actors, that's your prerogative.
Edit: Again, i've had this opinion since I started playing. Italy, ghana, most of the latin and south american teams. Whatever. if you dive, I don't like you.
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Puck Swami
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To complicated things further, Basketball was invented (in the USA) by a Canadian, Dr. James Naismith. And Lacrosse also has plenty of Canadian origin as part of the Iroqouis Nation, whose lands straddled the border.
To complicated things further, Basketball was invented (in the USA) by a Canadian, Dr. James Naismith. And Lacrosse also has plenty of Canadian origin as part of the Iroqouis Nation, whose lands straddled the border.
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