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Originally posted by Dr Love
I'll go you soccer hooligans one better, we probably have the best soccer player in the world playing here in America and his name is Freddy Adu. Eventually we'll get all the best soccer players in the world playing over here in the states and then we'll change the game and add some flavor and toughness to it.
Maybe we'll even give them some sissy armor so they can play no holds barred.
Peace
Originally posted by LostSailor
Soccer is popular in 3rd world countries because they can afford to play it competitively. Sure.. all you need is a ball and a field to play football. But if you were to compete on a global level you need the proper equipment. Something that poorer countries can't afford.
Originally posted by LostSailor
A lot of mothers want their kids to play sports but don't want them to get hurt. Hmmm... what's that leave?
Originally posted by LostSailor
Soccer is still popular in the US... A lot of mothers want their kids to play sports but don't want them to get hurt. Hmmm... what's that leave?
Soccer... Baseball (which is probably more dangerous then soccer)... and basketball.
Originally posted by Dr Love
We probably have the best soccer player in the world playing here in America and his name is Freddy Adu.
Originally posted by Dr Love
I'll go you soccer hooligans one better, we probably have the best soccer player in the world playing here in America and his name is Freddy Adu. Eventually we'll get all the best soccer players in the world playing over here in the states and then we'll change the game and add some flavor and toughness to it.
Maybe we'll even give them some sissy armor so they can play no holds barred.
When the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association passed a rule requiring high school soccer players to wear mouth guards in 1999, Amherst-Pelham Regional girls coach Derek Shea remembers joking about what changes would come next.
"When mouth guards came up, we sat in the (coaches) meeting laughing, and someone said, 'helmets are next,'" Shea said. "I said that was ludicrous."
Ludicrous or not, soccer players on all levels from youth league to college could be required to wear helmets under legislation currently being considered in the Statehouse.
Soccer does need some more toughness in it... Thats my humble opinion.
Originally posted by tiddly54
well no one seems to be listning, so this is the last time i will say that the demands of aussie rules football are much greater then any of the other footballs.
Originally posted by LostSailor
The mouthguards... well... Americans have always been a bit more picky about how our teeth look heh?
If I am going to watch soccer... Its gonna be this league.
www.misl.net...
Notice the recent MISL scores.... They play on a covered Ice hockey rink and are allowed to knock other players off the ball. Yeah... They are allowed to check!!! Its actually exciting to watch!!!
[edit on 15-12-2005 by LostSailor]
Originally posted by Dr Love
Dude, we're gonna get smoked by Ghana! We'll once again be the laughing stock of soccer in the eyes of the world and then we won't have to deal with soccer cluttering up our sports pages until the next World Cup.
GO GHANA!!!!
Peace
Originally posted by Dr Love
Dude, we're gonna get smoked by Ghana! We'll once again be the laughing stock of soccer in the eyes of the world and then we won't have to deal with soccer cluttering up our sports pages until the next World Cup.
GO GHANA!!!!
Peace
Originally posted by LostSailor
LETS GO GHANA!!! I don't wanna hear about this soccer crap anymore than you Doc...