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Date: 3/10/2010 4:04:35 PM
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I think it's more exciting than watching grass grow, but, well, hockey is sort of similar but has more speed and power, football has more power and speed and rhythm, baseball is the spiritual game with the intellectual elements


i am not a big soccer fan, but american football has so many breaks which makes it slow - if this was the reason you had to watch rugby ;)
And soccer is also very tactical, so it has also intellictual elements - and it happens alot more then on a baseball field - i heard that baseball games are usually "eating orgies" for the fans.

Usa soccer lacks of all the things that the fans of "european football"(yet the term "soccer" shows that in usa the soccer is almost another sport from europe/sud america)like
Soccer(as is called in american way) is the sport where the weaker team has more posibilities to win against the stronger,there's a lot of adrenaline and uncertainty than any other sport,the decisions of the refrees can influence much more the match,ther's a great tactical component unknown in the american sports( in american football there's something similar,much more complex about patterns,but is however more oriented towards the 1vs1 mismatch - cornerbacks against wide receivers i.e.-),there are few substitutions available for the coach so every move had to be analyzed and can make great differences,european football is not a sport who can strictly judge by the statistics,so it's open to a great numbers of different interpretations...
Surely,when it's playing at a low level,as still often happen in america,soccer is very boring,butI don't think that a match between the actual T-Wolves an the Nets is much more interesting ;D

P.S. I saw the SuperBowl,and I liked it ;D

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Date: 3/10/2010 4:31:01 PM
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I surely don't want to say what is the best sport in the world(I dont' know what is).I just pointed out that what american see as soccer is completely different to what is the real "european football"(that sometimes became very bad) both from the technical and mental point of view,and maybe they should appreciate more soccer if they should see how can really be european football

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Pool is better :P And snooker as well!

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Date: 3/10/2010 5:32:57 PM
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Well, they had the world champion in the 2000 if I'm not wrong so they probably have seen our soccer and as far as I know they've seen also how the Italians play basketball in these days... Our master Lapo Elkan did it!

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Date: 3/10/2010 6:29:11 PM
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Pretty much in agreement. MLS is very hard to watch, but I could watch EPL all day.

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Date: 3/10/2010 10:17:35 PM
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Youth soccer is HUGE in the USA. One of the great things about soccer for little kids is that not being able to use your hands really evens the playing field for children, who develop hand-eye coordination at very different speeds. So until kids are around 12, soccer is much more inclusive. At around junior high age or so, most boys and some girls stray from soccer to either more traditionally American team sports or to individual sports and nowadays to extreme sports. For girls and women, soccer remains the number one sport. Maybe that's why the USA kicks ass in women's soccer...

Do you ever wonder if Michael Jordan had been born in Italy or England or Brazil if he would have been the greatest soccer player ever?

Once I scored a basket that still makes me laugh.
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What makes soccer (even if i am not big fan, i follow only my team Panathinaikos), is that you need very little to play it. Just a ball, and empty space...You can play it everywhere, and i think that this is the biggest reason that is the most popular sport on the planet.

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