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  • #31
    Originally posted by DanS
    American crowds are very well behaved. It's that concept called "sportsmanship" with which the barbarians are unfamiliar. Following a sportsman's code (minus the Yankees fans, etc.) is not a bad thing, IMO.
    Yeh, raaaight. American crowds are just too busy guzzling burgers, walking back and forth to the beer stand and staring at outreageously numb score boards to make any problems.
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    • #32
      Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


      Yeah, most youth soccer players are not soccer fans when they grow up. By the time I was in high school, most of the people I played soccer with did not follow the game.

      I think if the US plays its cards right and tries to keep more kids as soccer fans, we can be a Top 10 squad... though I wonder if it'll happen in my lifetime.
      Eh, soccer is just not fun enough.
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      • #33
        what i know about us football is that guy lalas something that was in the us team in the previous world championship and the media had discovered that he was greekamerican.
        btw that was the mondial that we were ripped to shreds! i remember that beast maradona kicking our teeth in. then he was found to be on dope. but what humiliation.

        fortunately that's all washed away now

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        • #34
          Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
          Ouch... that's perhaps the worst management of a team I've ever heard of!
          The funny thing was (if youre not a Chester fan) the guy could not stop making analogies with American football, in every crisis he'd try to find the closest thing to that crisis in American football and then tackle the problem that way.

          He also tried some typically American-style motavational speaking in the dressing room before games, which went down like a lead balloon with the hardened old professionals.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by DanS


            This is different. The underlying infrastructure for domination is being built, although slowly.
            M1 tanks, Apache attack helis or anything like that aren't allowed on the field
            Blah

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            • #36
              the one and only football match i ever attended in my life btw was anderlecht vs ghent. anderlecht won (i was anderlecht)

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              • #37
                Originally posted by BeBro


                M1 tanks, Apache attack helis or anything like that aren't allowed on the field
                The American soccer scene is a lot more vibrant than you might believe, it's just constructed very differently than anywhere else in the world.

                I will leave the trolling aside somewhat because I'm also interested in this topic of Euro perception of American soccer.
                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                • #38
                  In St. Leo's socialist paradise, there will be no sports.
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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by DanS
                    The long-term trends are very auspicious for us. Our guys just have to keep improving themselves and avoid becoming sidetracked.
                    No no no, you don't understand. You may be improving yourselves and someday you might produce good players, but they'll all move to European teams.
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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by DanS
                      I will leave the trolling aside somewhat because I'm also interested in this topic of Euro perception of American soccer.
                      Football.
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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by DanS


                        The American soccer scene is a lot more vibrant than you might believe,
                        That may be, but it doesn't mean that it is not in other countries as well....
                        Blah

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                        • #42
                          Look down the road 30 years, Colon. Beyond maybe 5 or 6 Euro teams, that will not be so. I guarantee it.
                          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                          • #43
                            They show American soccer late at night in the UK, I've watched the odd game the standard looks about equal to the English first division (which confusingly is really the third division, don't ask!)

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by DanS
                              Look down the road 30 years, Colon. Beyond maybe 5 or 6 Euro teams, that will not be so. I guarantee it.
                              You also used to be pretty certain Somalia is a terrorist's hornet's nest.
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                              • #45
                                DanS may be trolling, but I think that's part of the hype I've described in my opening post that Europeans may be reacting to, which makes them look more snide towards American soccer.
                                “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                                - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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