After 2 Months of Stanley Cup and NBA Playoffs and Now The World Cup

[Mutt]

You Europeans really are excited by very little - watching this Italy vs Costa Rica game, in 20 minutes I haven't seen a serious attempt at putting the ball in the other team's goal.

Yes, unlike HandEgg as you like to call American football, there is constant 'action' - almost none of it producing anything.

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by Mutt

You Europeans really are excited by very little - watching this Italy vs Costa Rica game, in 20 minutes I haven't seen a serious attempt at putting the ball in the other team's goal.

Yes, unlike HandEgg as you like to call American football, there is constant 'action' - almost none of it producing anything.

Yeah but don't question it man. You are obviously ignorant and cannot see the beauty, subtlety, skill or strategy involved with endlessly passing a ball back-and-forth while the Goal Keeper stands around scratching his balls.

His soccer balls hehe.

[The Ghost]

The nice thing about the World Cup is it's the entire WORLD. Unlike the World Series ;)

Not just Europeans excited about it. It's a world contest. Have alot of friends in the states diggin it too especially since the USA is still in it.

[oppoten]

2 things:

1) When a team passes it around the midfield, they're trying to create space which will lead to a meaningful attack. They could shoot from midfield anytime, but most likely the shot will be wide, high or blocked by a defender.

2) A historical understanding of the game is needed. Italy have always emphasized defence, and Costa Rica as an underdog were playing a defensive strategy. They caught Italy offside many times, and the strategy worked because they were able to take one of the few chances they created and won the game.

HTH

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by oppoten

2 things:

1) When a team passes it around the midfield, they're trying to create space which will lead to a meaningful attack. They could shoot from midfield anytime, but most likely the shot will be wide, high or blocked by a defender.

2) A historical understanding of the game is needed. Italy have always emphasized defence, and Costa Rica as an underdog were playing a defensive strategy. They caught Italy offside many times, and the strategy worked because they were able to take one of the few chances they created and won the game.

HTH

I'd rather have them take 50 mid-field shots than endlessly passing the ball around looking for 'space'.

[amacontent]

Soccor is only 1 step better than golf. These players diving is pathetic. Diving should be revieewd and 1 game bans should be given out Soccer is a joke.

[CDSmith]

Let's face facts. There's really only about 1-5 minutes tops in any given match of meaningful action that is worth cheering about. The rest of the 90+ minutes are all just waiting for something to happen, waiting for whistles, waiting for throw-in's, waiting for a player to quit holding his shin and crying, waiting waiting waiting.

However, when that worthwhile action does come, it's often simply golden, and makes the whole 2-3 hour affair bearable. I've watched every game so far, seen every single goal of the WC and every slow replay of every goal from every concievable angle. Some of them have been incredible.

Someone in another thread was scoffing at American football, going on about all the stopping and starting, having ten seconds of play and then thirty seconds of standing around. While watching all these WC soccer matches I find myself wondering "Is he kidding??"... because there's plenty of that in those games as well. Tons of bone-headed whistles, plenty of yapping and standing around in soccer too. The only single advantage I can see is... no commericals except during the halftime break.

Why do you think I can watch 3-4 games per day? DVR is key, and F-FWD is my friend. :D

[Dvae]

Originally Posted by Mutt

You Europeans really are excited by very little - watching this Italy vs Costa Rica game, in 20 minutes I haven't seen a serious attempt at putting the ball in the other team's goal.

Yes, unlike HandEgg as you like to call American football, there is constant 'action' - almost none of it producing anything.

The only reason you don't like real Football is you don't understand the rules.
Isn't that what you guys say about Soccer?

[Mutt]

Originally Posted by Dvae

The only reason you don't like real Football is you don't understand the rules.
Isn't that what you guys say about Soccer?

No sorry my lack of interest in soccer lies in the nature of the game, a game where true scoring opportunities are as rare as pubic hair on a stripper. I understand that what they are doing at midfield has some thought/strategy to it but the outcome of it rarely results in an exciting scoring attempt. It's just too easy to defend in soccer.

I am a hockey fan, I hate when hockey becomes like soccer and the team without the puck just blocks shots, takes away shooting lanes and obstructs the other team in whatever way they can. I stopped watching hockey for close to 10 years because it had turned into soccer on ice.

These great world famous soccer stars, they literally get their foot or head on the ball in the scoring area about twice a game.

The sport is growing in the US with ESPN's deal with the Premier League and the MLS but I'll never be a fan unless the rules change to provide more exciting offensive play. And that won't happen.

[Jel]

lol. change thread title to 'I don't understand the game'

[baggg]

your retarded shitty handegg breaks the gameplay every 10seconds with commercials.
also if you enjoy watching fatties wearing gay-ass yoga pants and 80s women shoulder pads you are probably gay

but seems like amerifats of gfy cant deal with their gay handegg being irrevelant and must start a thread every few hours about "soccer"

[Mutt]

Originally Posted by CDSmith

However, when that worthwhile action does come, it's often simply golden, and makes the whole 2-3 hour affair bearable.

I agree, when the ball finally gets into the scoring area it's exciting. It just doesn't happen enough, the field is so big and long.

In American football the teams get down to the red(scoring) zone 3-4 times a game, and they run a bunch of plays when they get down there unless they score on their first attempt. Plus in American football, a play that starts on your own 10 yard line, usually a long pass can turn into an instant touchdown, sometimes running plays too. Plus returning punts and kickoffs and then you also have interceptions and fumbles that turn into touchdowns. You never know when these are going to happen which adds to the excitement.

That said, there are bad American football games that are as boring as soccer, usually when 2 shitty teams play each other.

[Mutt]

Listen you live on a very old continent that's history is filled with war, death, misery and poverty. It's not a surprise that watching players on a bright green field of grass kicking a ball around rather aimlessly amuses you. It's the sport of poverty, hence why soccer also caught on in Latin America when you conquered and exploited those poor Indians.

We in North America haven't known much poverty, not much war on our soil, it takes more to entertain us.

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by Mutt

Listen you live on a very old continent that's history is filled with war, death, misery and poverty. It's not a surprise that watching players on a bright green field of grass kicking a ball around rather aimlessly amuses you. It's the sport of poverty, hence why soccer also caught on in Latin America when you conquered and exploited those poor Indians.

We in North America haven't known much poverty, not much war on our soil, it takes more to entertain us.

Hahaha! Now THIS one will get you in trouble. I know from GFY experience....:D

(You are correct, of course.)

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[Adraco]

16 million Americans saw the US first game in the World Cup, 6 million Americans saw the Stanley Cup final...

To each their own