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To play competively ... yes! I can hang up my skates for a year, and come back like I never missed a day. If you don't play soccer for a year, you can't even come close to the same skill level you had before. Case in point...
When I played puck in college, I barely played soccer. It's taking me 2+ years now to regain some of my skills. I'm no where near to what I used to be. I missed 8 months of hockey after wrist surgery, I came back better than before.
Obviously hitting wise, hockey and football are tougher. To play 90 minutes straight with only 5-10 minutes in between, that my friends is tougher than playing five seconds every now and then.
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Out of my league? Actually, I stepped in your league with that comment. Soccer sucks, soccer's for pussies. We can both play name games all day long.
I feel like I'm arguing with a liberal. You know, when all the facts are pointing in a clear direction, yet they still are set in their ways.
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Oh, so you just signed up for a new screen name. How incredibly sad.
And either way, hitting the ball first or not, it shouldn't be a foul. No wonder Americans hate it - it's a kitty sport.
Go away. NO ONE is going to listen to this sh-- about soccer. It sucks. It always has sucked, and I would bet good money that it always will suck.
Obviously you are not listening. And the 10-12 pages this thread will spur proves no one else is as well.
I played college hockey ... a man's game that we can all agree on. Let me tell you that soccer is 10x harder to play competitively than any other sport I ever played. You actually have to think and be in shape to play it. But then again, fatasses -- which I image you being -- wouldn't know that.
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If anything, it's the only thing Buffalo's actually nothing falling behind on. Down south, soccer is a lot bigger than up north, for obvious weather reasons.
Alaska Darin, stick to your financial advice.
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You are wrong. If you hit the ball first you can tackle from behind.
I've been on this board for a long time. I am aware of your "board prestige". Congrats. Personally your post count means stevestojan to me.
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Good Reads:
From US Dept. of State:
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/a071103.htm
From UK Paper:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0...1270849,00.html
Wonder no longer. Soccer in the United States is booming. Though the older generation of Americans may remain clueless about this king of sports, younger Americans are flocking to it in numbers unimaginable only a few years ago. On schoolyards across the country, football fields and baseball diamonds now do double duty as soccer fields, or have been converted to soccer altogether. Youth soccer leagues that draw from the elementary and secondary schools around the country attracted more than three and a half million kids this year -- more than Little League baseball -- as well as more than a million adults in coaching, administrative, and other volunteer positions.Look in your own backyards people. Buffalo is building huge soccer complexes everwhere. There are more soccer leagues & fields here than any other sport.
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During the World Cup, Sportscenter dedicates all of 11 seconds of its broadcast to soccer. During it's biggest event.
Sure, our kids like to play it. Why? Because it doesn't matter who you are, how much money you have, etc... you can play soccer. This is different for say, hockey or football, where you need tons of equipment.
Listen, soccer blows. We're not just making this up. It really sucks, hard.
Funny you should say this, tomorrow at 2pm, me and about 11 of my friends are going to play a football game at UB's Old Stadium. Cost of play: ZERO DOLLARS. If the rest of the world wanted to play football, they could, but they don't.
How many of your 12,900+ enlightening post are rehashes of themselves? Soccer is something you will never understand. Since you can't understand it, it sucks. But as I mentioned before, I'd love to take you to a Liverpool - Manchaster United game. The game that you say sucks wouldn't suck anymore.
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You're wrong. Look at the stats. I don't have a link handy, but soccer recently turned into #1 youth sport in America.
If those things were said in the 70s, then they were stupid. American's don't like things we suck in. We don't suck in soccer anymore. The better we get nationally, the bigger the sport will be here.
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Please, don't insult me by saying you think I'm French. French soccer sucks, but that's because everything French sucks.
BTW: My old username is no longer available to me, and I wanted to change it anyway. I was too lazy to re-register but I felt I had to chime in.
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I'll tell you what......we don't even need football to be the best game in world. Hell, soccer can have that title. Football is the best in America. By far. All of the other league's combined aren't nearly as popular or passionate in America.
It's the best run sports league, the richest, and it's ours. Thank God we have it, so we don't have to have soccer.
We're (US) wrong evidently, and it feels soooooooooooooooo good to be so!
Are you referring to the best sports league with the most passionate fans in America or the World. Because if it's the latter, you're wrong.
I'd argue leagues like the EPL -- English Premier League -- are the richest, most passionate and best run.
Football is the king sport in America. Soccer is a way of life everywhere else. People on both sides of this argument need to realize that.
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I love all sports. I don't like to bash sports, but how people that make baseball their national pasttime think soccer is boring is beyond me.
However, I can say this: 90% of you that hate soccer, if you went to a World Cup game or an English Premier League game. You're walking out of that stadium loving the sport. The experience is second to none.
I already have my ticket application in for the 2006 World Cup. I am counting down the days. By 2020, soccer will overtake this country. It might not pass the NFL ever, but it surely will pass the other big three in due time.
Any other TSWers planning to head over to the next World Cup? Sam's Army is going to have a large contingent there, it will be a blast.
OT US soccer
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Kevin ... I didn't start this thread. I'm just giving the other side. I love football, I love soccer, I love hockey. But I won't just stand on the sidelines and let people attack something because they don't understand it.
On a side note for you: How are the Sabres prospects looking?