Originally Posted by michael.kickass

To truly understand it you can start by not calling it soccer but FOOTBALL. You gotta play it to understand it. The scoring is exciting 'cause it happens rarely, not every 2 fucking minutes. And it's always about tricking the opponent, you gotta make the opponent think the ball is going one place when it actually goes to the other. I don't expect you to understand it, but when 80 or 90 % of the world population love it and you don't, there are some pretty good chances you are missing something and not the other way around.