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Originally Posted by nico-t
Jesus another one, it's what you grow up with, pretty obvious. American football to us is evenly weird. Play for seconds, time out, play, time out, and what i really don't understand is you people find fucking commercials a part of the highlights - probably says something about the entertainment factor of the sport itself! Zing!
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Yes but I didn't want this to turn into a fucking World Cup match. Meaning: my country vs. your country
nyah nyah nyah.
THAT is all I see as the appeal of soccer and especially the World Cup: just an excuse for people to scream 'Brasil!' and 'France!' and "Portugal!". Just an excuse to be nationalistic. You probably aren't even watching the game itself, just bouncing up and down and screaming 'Mexico!'
So no one can explain the appeal of kicking a ball around an open field seemingly endlessly without a fucking POINT until someone finally decides to kick the damn thing towards the fucking net. Got it. So we Americans ain't missing a damn thing.
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Originally Posted by PSD
Part of the fascination of fans and players may be because like you said so few goals are normally scored so when they finally do it is more exciting. Probably just harder to score when compared to other sports.
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Now this makes some sense. But it also seems like the players spend most of their time trying to deke out the other player with fancy ball handling and foot work rather than passing and constantly trying to attack the net. The amount of mid-field passes that literally go nowhere and do nothing to advance the scoring is mind boggling to me. In all other sports you have the one team constantly trying to score points while in soccer (futbol) it's ridiculously tedious all the passing and not shooting. It must be exhausting for the players, too, running around like crazy chickens with their heads cut off and no one scoring. Some games have 7 total shots on goal for both teams! Crazy.