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To kick a round, size 5, ball...
PPK:
... or football, as we call it here on the eastern side of the pond. I heard that you call it soccer on that country called America.
I can see that many members of this forum are Americans, but I also know that the USA has a pretty good women's soccer national team. Given this, I want to know your opinion about the world most famous and most played sport. No flaming here please and also no fanboy shit.
I can say for myslef that it is my favorite sport and it's my country's national sport, so to speak. So go ahead, kick a round ball for a while and give the old melon a break (the ball used in american football resembles a melon, honestly).
mookie:
Dude soccer is boring. Man up and watch ice hockey.
Sp1nn3y:
--- Quote from: mookie on March 08, 2009, 05:06:29 pm ---Dude soccer is boring. Man up and watch ice hockey.
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--- Quote from: PPK on March 08, 2009, 05:01:14 pm ---No flaming here please and alos no fanboy shit.
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You fail at life.
I like "soccer" cus their good athletes.. they run and run and run and run.. it's intense but i watch "football/foosball" for the strategic turn based routes/plays hard hits. and lol i didnt know we had a womens soccer team.. >.>
1Rusky:
Hockey is my favorite sport. I really try to like soccer, but it is hard. The atmosphere for soccer games are amazing but there are hardly any real scoring chances, just a thousand turn overs. I think offsides is a really dumb rule for soccer given the sparse scoring.
PPK:
--- Quote from: mookie on March 08, 2009, 05:06:29 pm ---watch ice hockey.
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I find ice hockey to be a bit more violent at times.
--- Quote from: Sp1nn3y on March 08, 2009, 05:20:00 pm ---I like "soccer" cus their good athletes.. they run and run and run and run.. it's intense but i watch "football/foosball" for the strategic turn based routes/plays hard hits. and lol i didnt know we had a womens soccer team.. >.>
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You do, and if I'm not mistaken, you've won the Women's World Cup twice, in 1991 and 1999 and you hosted two Women's World Cup (1999 and 2003), and a World Cup, in 1994, which Brazil won. Also Wikipedia tells me that the USA came third in 1930, the year of the first soccer World Cup.
--- Quote from: 1Rusky on March 08, 2009, 05:24:12 pm ---I think offsides is a really dumb rule for soccer given the sparse scoring.
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It's to make the game more fair (according to some people), but at times I too get annoyed by that. If a team can do things right, it can avoid them, but not at 100%. It's also a source of controversy at times, because it is difficult to spot and correctly signal, although the referees get it right most of the times. The sparse scoring is natural of the game, since it is played in a different fashion than many other sports, with a greater chance of cutting off passes, but sometimes you watch a match where 4 or 5 goals are scored, and you can call that a great match.
, a link to a match that Portugal played on 1966 at the World Cup. We came from losing 3-0 against North Korea to winning 5-3, four goals scored by Eusébio
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