If you don't like it, you're obviously missing its sophistication and depth.
stop acting like its so complex that the average person simply can't grasp its sophistication and depth.
Why do soccer fans refuse to admit how ungodly boring it is?
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Alright, here is the thing. I have been watching and playing soccer since I was 10. So, I understand why it is so exciting and interesting. When Leo Messi dribbles past 2-3 players like they are not even there and a defender just cynically brings him down in despair,my mind is blown because I know how difficult what Messi just did actually is and how he made his oppenent concede a yellow card that he did not want to concede. Whereas Ameribros who just started watching soccer a month ago don't get it because they don't know what just happened. For them a 160 lbs guy just ran a little with the ball and fell down. They also don't get it when Mesut Ozil plays a beautiful forward pass. They don't know what it means for a pass to be beautiful. They don't understand how Andrea Pirlo roams around the pitch like he fieking owns it and caresses the ball to his team mate so sexily until he gets it back again from his team mates.Soccer is romantic bros and you have to feel it yourself. Similarly, if you have not watched it enough, you don't know what tactics are being used, you don't understand substitutions, you don't understand what role is player is playing in the team. For you its all about 'some guys trying to get the ball in a big ass goal and other guys trying to stop it' as some reatrded Ameribro claimed earlier.That is why people tell you 'you don't get it' because you don't get it. Also, you bros are already dismissive of the beautiful game. So that makes it harder for soccer lovers to explain it and for you to understand it. You will not get it unless you watch it enough.
I will also say this. When I came to the US 5 years ago, I though American football was boring as hell. Now I understand the game better, the tactics better, the difficulty level better etc. So, I like it now. Maybe if I watch it more, I will like it more.I also like Cricket and it is a sport that requires extremely high skill level and physical endurance and mental strength. However, only a few countries play it and Ameribros think it is utterly retarded, which it is not. In fact it is the oppposite. It is the gentleman's game.They don't even know the rules properly but they just assume it is reatrded because it sounds and looks like some weird version of baseball and baseball of course must be better since it is popular in America.
So, my experience is that Ameribros are used to living in a bubble and when they cannot enjoy any other sport than the ones that are popular here, they cannot wrap their heads around why other people like it. They don't think maybe there is something I don't get. If they don't like it, it must suck.Such superiority complex, its fieking unvelievable.
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Why is it that anyone who disagrees with your position is a troll? I'm simply stating what many, many Americans have already said.
Just google "soccer is boring" and you'll get tons of articles and blogs. (that's how I found this one).I would guess many of those who complain the most about soccer have not spent enough time on it to appreciate it enough to evaluate whether they like it or not.
As to my idiot troll comment, much of the way you state things, and those on the blogs you refer to, are just too simplistic to take any actual question or argument from. It feels like the way my kids said things when they were around 5 years old and complaining about things they don't like but obviously did not understand.
As to strategy and tactics, some examples of things you have to be constantly evaluating in watching a match, depending on the level of play and the particulars of individual match ups...
Do I have great defenders and a solid keep, so play conservative and count on scoring on a few well times counterattacks?
If the other team is playing heavily defensively, when do I engage in a soft withdrawl aimed at pulling them a bit forward to create room? If I pull them out a little, what tactics will the players use to exploit any space. Where are the best places to make runs away from the ball. What seams are most exploitable in the defense when we do attack it.
How hard do I play offsides, and how aggressive am I when I employ an offside trap?
When do fresh legs outweigh the skill or experience of starters, and at which spots on the field would fresh legs be most valued?
Does the defense recover so fast we should shoot if we have any glimpse of net, or will we have a heartbeat to set up a higher quality opportunity?
If you are not constantly evaluating things like this, which are constantly evolving around the ball and far away from the ball, you are not really taking in enough of the game to appreciate it.
That is aside from appreciating the athleticism of the players, and the physicality of the game. You would be amazed the force of a well timed shoulder charge. I trained my high school age players to step opponents off the ball while delivering real shots. In running drills with them, the best of them would occasionally leave me with ringing ears. It might not look like it on TV, but there are some real collisions out there sometimes.
One may get all this and still not like soccer. Fine. One may get all the minutia of football and not like it too. Fine. But nothing in your comments indicates any more understanding of the game than the typical american high schooler who played rec a couple years with coaches who had no clue and then spent a year on the high school team before quitting--which is essentially no understanding at all. It just sounds like the way a 5 year old whines about what they don't understand. That is why I thought you must just be trolling.you are not an economist. So, you should not be here.
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So, what you're saying is that I have to watch endless hours of the most boring game ever invented in order to start to appreciate it?
That's kind of odd, because I vividly remember thinking how great and interesting football was the first time I saw it.
So, soccer is kind of an acquired taste... like that Norwegian fermented shark that makes to throw up the first few times you eat it.
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OMG!!!! You're all right.
I just got finished watching my 12th soccer match, and it was AMAZING!
Suddenly, the incredibly complex strategy behind booting a ball up field has revealed itself to me! The subtle nuance of intercepting a pass, then kicking the ball away from the other team has crystalized.
The ballet of slamming a shot into the goalie's chest 37 times without a score finally makes sense. And the over-the-top acting on the part of players who purport to be in mortal agony because of a foul that wouldn't hurt a six year old girl is pure genius!
I am in awe.
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It's cool if you don't like soccer. If you think the evolution from 3-5-2 to 4-4-2 to 4-3-3 and now 4-2-31 is a bunch of crap, or the death of tiki-taka and revival of fast uptempo counter attack is nonsense, that's cool.
More power to you, I don't see why you keep harping about it though.
I'm a tactics guy, so any sport that relies a lot on strategy gets me. So I like NFL, I like analyzing offenses, spread offense, west coast, zone read etc. I also like soccer for the same reason.
But feel free to hate it.
OMG!!!! You're all right.
I just got finished watching my 12th soccer match, and it was AMAZING!
Suddenly, the incredibly complex strategy behind booting a ball up field has revealed itself to me! The subtle nuance of intercepting a pass, then kicking the ball away from the other team has crystalized.
The ballet of slamming a shot into the goalie's chest 37 times without a score finally makes sense. And the over-the-top acting on the part of players who purport to be in mortal agony because of a foul that wouldn't hurt a six year old girl is pure genius!
I am in awe. -
"If you think the evolution from 3-5-2 to 4-4-2 to 4-3-3 and now 4-2-31 is a bunch of crap, or the death of tiki-taka and revival of fast uptempo counter attack is nonsense, that's cool."
I assume that what you're talking about involves kicking a ball back and forth for 90 minutes without a score.
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Basketball is the most boring sport for me because nothing of significance can happen and so there is no tension. A player can do the most amazing play in the world and its still only worth 2 or 3 points over the course of the game, and the next team will score another basket 30 seconds later. There are no highs or lows, its just flat.
Football (soccer) is good because goals mean so much - there is a huge amount of tension when the ball is around the box, because a single goal will completely change the game. Sports which have scorelines like 46-42 dont have this and they are dull, in my opinionThe tension you mean is when the ball is around the box, but I have seen so many of that instance and most of the time nothing happens... The games ending 1-0 or 0-0, when a player score, they jump for joy as if they won the game, then suddenly the other team scores and they too jump for joy as though they won it too... then the game ends in penalty kicks... WTF is that!?!
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Op right! Basketball alpha, soccer gayma.
Americans will usually admit that baseball is boring. Because it is. There's not much actual action and the scoring is random. Baseball is liked because it's an American historical/cultural thing and some people just enjoy the structure of the game... But if you don't just kind of innately enjoy it you wont ever enjoy it.
Soccer is also boring as s**t where 90% of the game is irrelevant passes that lead to nothing and the other 10% is attempts at kicks that fly wide right of the massive ass goal*.
*That's another thing, why is everyone so f**king bad? The goal is f**king huge. How do they fail so damn horribly all the time? It'd be like if every other shot in basketball was a horrible airball.
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None of you people know anything about action sports. Ok American Football not too bad. You may see a few good long passes here and there for a touchdown but there is too much ball carrying with 4 downs to make 10 yards. Personally I prefer to watch Canadian Football because they have 3 downs therefore there is far more long passes but its sad to see the playoff in Football, American or Canadian, after a hard fought season is decided in one game. They should have at least best 2 out of 3. Baseball is boring to watch. Especially on TV. You can sit and wait a half hour before someone actually hits a ball. Basketball is back and forth but its boring cuz it's basically the same thing. SO you want action and not able to get out of your seat well you have to be stupid if you don't agree with me and especially all the girls and guy's that ....................YES....................................HOCKEY and yes you can play that anywhere and it only takes a stick a puck and a net or even just toe boots to make a goal net. There is action from puck drop to when the whistle blows or you are so tired that you can't skate or run anymore. And you can't beat a 4 out of 7 playoffs and 4 series to get you the prize. There's checking, there is pushing around and even a fight here and there. You can use your feets too to make passes or even bat the puck out of the air to make a goal as long as it's not over the cross bar of the net. You can even make a glove pass in the defensive zone as long as you don't close your hand on the puck. I've seen someone bite someone's ear once but I think he was an European player but we'll leave the bitting to Soccer. So if you never ever seen Hockey well you don't know what you're missing. You'll never be bored for one moment.
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Yes soccer sucks. It's why it will never catch on in the US. We have much better sports, unlike the rest of the world.
Baseball is basically American soccer. It sucks too, scoring is completely random. (The batter, despite what they say, has zero control over where the ball goes) Again, it only exists out of inertia.
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I used to watch soccer, but I just have rapidly lost interest in it. I don't like how the big clubs and leagues have just destroyed the competition. I find it boring seeing the same clubs dominate year in and year out. Sure there are surprise winners every now and then, but that doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things. I also don't like the fanatics who worship both Messi and Ronaldo. I don't like how stuck up the media is peither. I really don't care about tactics or strategy like most people do. I'm more interested in the tables and history. And seeing the same teams and the same countries up top is just annoying. I'm an American, but I was once obsessed with soccer and can still remember useless historic info about it to this day. That's all the value it has left for me. It needs to change from an economic standpoint, for me to care about it again.
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Soccer sucks because it is a s**ttier version of hockey by virtually any metric. Slower? Yep. Less physical? Correct. Less scoring? Indeed. More pussified players? Correct, sir (See: hockey players returning to a match with 30+ stitches after taking a stick to the face).
Seriously, f**k soccer and Eurobros who don't understand better sports like American Football, Baseball, Basketball and Hockey. There is a reason why the best continent in the world (North America) has rejected soccer in a big way.