anyone interested in the world cup?

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Soccer is o.k. to watch if the players are making skillful passes(like Argentina did today.)If not,it is like a real bad hockey game.

[Gander]

Passes? You watch a sport for passes? Its like watching baseball to see routine double plays. I'm no huge fan of hockey but at least they fight and get roughed up. Anyone know why the soccer players wear their socks damn high? Real bad fashion going on out there.

Originally Posted by Gander

Passes? You watch a sport for passes? Its like watching baseball to see routine double plays. I'm no huge fan of hockey but at least they fight and get roughed up. Anyone know why the soccer players wear their socks damn high? Real bad fashion going on out there.

Shin guards are often held in place by the high socks. And shin guards are extraordinarily important. Hurts like hell getting kicked in the shin, even with them on. Some of the shin guards even have the extra ankle pads on the outside and inside so if someone slides into you with cleats, your ankles dont get stabbed. In soccer, the knee down is where the pain usually occurs.

But like I stated before, they fake for rest a whole lot.

[somerfrost]

These guys take more dives than pro wrestlers...now there's an idea, maybe Vince should field his own soccer team...The Big Show in goal, Triple H, HBK, bring Nick out of retirement...would sledge hammers and chairs get you red carded? First guy who takes a dive in front of the Undertaker gets tombstoned...that would slow that crap down!

[irishtrekker]

It really is to each their own -- baseball bores me like no other sport, but I love a good World Cup match. It was pandemonium yesterday at the pub when we thought our second goal counted...damn, an upset of Italian would have been amazing. I think soccer's one of those sports that's made better with a good crowd. We had such a blast yesterday: Italians at one table, Americans adjacent, beer flowing...here's hoping our match with Ghana is good, too.

Originally Posted by somerfrost

These guys take more dives than pro wrestlers...

Yeah ... they do seem to be a bunch of girly-men ... don't they? ... lots of swooning, writhing, and grimacing every time they get a boo-boo.

Sorry, but soccer just doesn't do it for me.

Lots of running around yet hardly any meaningful action. BORING.

Brazil and Australia played an extremely entertaining game. Almost every player on Brazil has more skill than any US player. The only way we get on track and compete is really playing as a unit cause we got very little talent compared to the top teams.

I guess if you take a country the size of Brazil, and the choice of sports to play is soccer, then soccer, and after that soccer, and then maybe a little basketball... well, you will have very talented athletes.

If a guy like Barry Sanders was born with a soccer ball at his feet, we might have a chance. Most kids in the US quit soccer by the time they start middle and High School. Then its the other football. And if inner city, basketball. The number of US baseball players is dropping off the map with the Latin American influx of really good players.