IF the US team makes it to the finals, and I know what day that is, I will probably might check to see what the score is. That is about as much as I could stand.
I hate soccer and won’t watch the World Cup Thread.
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Two games so far today, two 1-1 draws. There was quality, but draws won’t help get stupid ‘Muricans to pay attention to futbol. Granted, I don’t have a solution other than one team winning in regulation. Shootouts are stupid horse-a$$, and you can’t have sudden-death overtime over a 38-day tournament in summer heat.
Proving why it’s such a dumb, highly subjective, and player emotive (faux) sport.
“Oooh. He kicked me in the shin.”
Isn't that what the shin guards are for? I've watched enough little kids soccer and they don't do that much crying.
Is it weird that my only interest in the World Cup is watching videos of Europeans enjoying the freedom of being an American (free soda refills made me chuckle) and Koreans making out with hot Mexican women? I have not watched a single game yet.
Not weird. I think we all have experienced enough circuits of the Sun to recognize weird, and it ain't this.
What would you just have to assume about a male who wants to ban women’s beach volleyball?
No judgement, just an observation.
Yeah pretty close if we ever got there but clearly we have no sustained success. Maybe we do some damage this year.
It's just the ignorant American in me, but the lack of scoring combined with matches ending in a draw ... ugh.
If you're going to make me sit through a 1-1 or 2-2 slogfest (I know, I know, a 2-2 game is an action-packed shootout, or so I'm told) ... at least figure out a way to declare a winner at the end of it.
Rather than penalty kicks, maybe try a 10 minute period without a goalkeeper. Or something. Anything. Rock, paper, scissors, perhaps?
If you're going to make me sit through a 1-1 or 2-2 slogfest (I know, I know, a 2-2 game is an action-packed shootout, or so I'm told) ... at least figure out a way to declare a winner at the end of it.
Rather than penalty kicks, maybe try a 10 minute period without a goalkeeper. Or something. Anything. Rock, paper, scissors, perhaps?
As a long retired FB coach......I hate soccer. Always thought it was a communist plot to emasculate American manhood.
My Instagram algorithm is packed solid with these. At first I enjoyed them. Now I’m beginning to think they are insincere comments creating content in order boost followers.
A foreigner amazed at his first visit to Buc Ees is funny the first three or four times. After that, not so much. I’m finding some of these people claiming to be awe struck at our retail establishments have actually been to the US numerous times. Some have been here for months or even years.
Aside from that, most visitors do seem to be having a good time and we appear to be treating them well.
The draws will make for a very exciting last day of group stage. And once you’re past group stage, in the knockout rounds, there are no draws.
You’re hating soccer wrong.
I can't wait. That 0-0 draw on the last day of group stage that pushes New Zealand through, because there were so many draws in prior games ... whoa nelly, my heart's a racin' just thinking about it.
I guess I'd rather not suffer through a draw ... or 8 ... in the first go 'round, hoping it'll provide more excitement some time in the future. Heck, you can advance to the next round ... actually, you can win a group ... without winning a game.
And, yes, once you get past the group stage, often times, in order to determine a winner, they have to do something completely different than the normal, actual game play/flow in order to determine a winner. Sort of like determining the winner of a football game by having a best of 5 field goal kicking contest.
Maybe they can just make up a random spot on the field to start the extra time....let's say the 25 yard line. Better yet maybe they can get points by not scoring, but if they kick the ball over the goal and just make up an arbitrary number....like .67 of a point so folks that don't even like the sport can say...hey we scored 2.01 points by kicking the ball over a bar. Being a hater is easy to do because it doesn't require any real thought. Best and most popular tournament on the planet and the fans from around the world are proving it right here in our back yard.....tough pill for knuckle draggers to handle, but hey....you were pretty good at chasing down the pedo protectors so you got that going for you.
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In order to appease American football fans, I suggest that soccer play in 5 to 7 second increments and then take a 30 to 40 second break to talk about what happens next. Also, they should mix in a few 300 pound men that can't run more than 20 yards but are there to just clog things up a bit.
Well they already dumbed it down for our fans for the commercial breaks. Cannot wait until the next WC where they get a 5 minute warning and 3 timeouts to keep that non stop action going.
This is the second time you came in here and pouted like a teenage girl who just got dumped for a hotter chick. This thread isn't FOR you ... there are at least 2 other World Cup threads that are meant for you ... that are celebrating the World Cup. You can go in there and love you some soccer all you want ... and hopefully you'll be free from troglodytes like myself.
But while you're here ... what about not liking aspects of a certain sport would make one a "knuckle dragger"? Use your words.
WTactualF?!? Get medicated, and wait anxiously (but not too anxiously ... hence the meds) for the next riveting 0-0 draw between Uzbekistan and Congo.
I'm actually one of the casual non-fans who is trying to make an effort to embrace the game .. and I'm voicing my displeasures as I bump up against the differences between this sport and other sports I actually and actively enjoy ... and, maybe, through that process, I'll learn to accept those differences and become a fan, to some extent. Instead, while I'm working through my dissonance ... in a place explicitly earmarked to do so ... I'm met by someone who makes me want to reflexively throat-punch soccer fans for being arrogant SOBs who don't know they shouldn't be where they are.
In other words, STFU. With all due respect.
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They pretty much do that now ... except the 30-40 second breaks are more like 2-3 minute breaks where no one talks, but players just walk/jog around the field kicking a ball back and forth before someone decides to make a run for it, or kick the ball somewhere in the vicinity of the goal.
Those 300 pound men could also be used to carry off any player who falls to the ground in absolute agony, acting as if they just had their limbs ripped off, just to pop up and run in a full sprint seconds later, when they realize they didn't draw a penalty .. and make sure those players don't reenter for the rest of the game.
Tuesday could end up being the first time a World Cup game impacts travel to a baseball game. Tuesday’s tourney schedule is TBD, so I’m not getting too worked up about it just yet … but I am thinking about how I need to retrofit the vehicle to go Death Race 2000 if I need to push my way through.
My kids aren’t old enough, or good enough, to be in the CWS … and I don’t think the World Cup made its way to the soccer hotbed of Omaha.
Oh joy ... one of the premier teams - Portugal - comes out and, against a handicapable team, dominates their way to a thrilling 1-1 DRAW. This will add so much tension to Portugal's much anticipated showdown against Uzbekistan.
Go Portugal ... tie Blue Hens.
Go Portugal ... tie Blue Hens.
ronaldo is a giant, unending pain in the a$$.
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Portugal have a Ronaldo problem (again) after draw with Congo DR
Cristiano Ronaldo will go down as one of Portugal and soccer's all-time best players, but it's becoming clear his team could be better without him.
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It's soccer (not football), it's a soccer field (not a pitch), and it's a soccer uniform (not a kit). Now get off my lawn! 
Same story different competition. Same story was out there for Euro 2024 and they aren't wrong. Play him the last 30 or the first 60, no more.ronaldo is a giant, unending pain in the a$$.
Portugal have a Ronaldo problem (again) after draw with Congo DR
Cristiano Ronaldo will go down as one of Portugal and soccer's all-time best players, but it's becoming clear his team could be better without him.
Since you said you're trying to enjoy the sport, maybe compare it to baseball. Where there's even less activity, longer breaks, less athleticism, similar levels of scoring and the games are drawn out forever.
This is how you do it.It's soccer (not football), it's a soccer field (not a pitch), and it's a soccer uniform (not a kit). Now get off my lawn!
Pitch clock is a game changer. Baseball is must watch now (phils/dodgers)
Sport is one of the most wonderful thing humans do. The mix of competition and the art of athleticism is a joy to watch and should be celebrated now matter what the sport is. Hating a particular sport seems absolutely silly to me. I find that it's usually the person doing the hating that has the issues and not the sport itself.