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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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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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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?

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Date: 3/11/2010 4:12:11 AM
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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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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?

I wonder if he would have been greatest handball player ever:] Every time I watch handball (few games a year) I wonder how would LBJ play and I'm pretty sure he or similar players would be just awesome.

He would crab dribble... and Im not sure how refs would like that:)

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I wont watch American soccer (MLS). It lacks everything that is soccer.

Pretty much in agreement. MLS is very hard to watch, but I could watch EPL all day.

Ever seen some of the lower level EPL/Serie A/Bundesliga/etc games, or you just tune in for the Real-Man U-Milan types? There's plenty of fans of soccer in the US to support a top level league, unfortunately many of them would rather tune in to support some team thousands of miles away.

Go watch Hull slog it out with the Wolves on TV and tell me how much more exciting that is then actually being at an MLS game.

Last edited by brian at 3/11/2010 8:18:07 AM

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