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| soccer | 17 |
skierdude44
more popular game world wide:soccer or baseball?
August 24, 2003 at 01:50AM View BBCode
i wish i could say baseball but its prolly soccer.
BravesLuver
August 24, 2003 at 01:52AM View BBCode
I wish baseball was too, but it's gotta be soccer.
andrew
August 24, 2003 at 02:10AM View BBCode
Yes it is certainly soccer. Fun game to play (my favorite in fact) but really boring to watch.
MasterSZ
August 24, 2003 at 02:21AM View BBCode
baseball is most popular in the usa but i have no idea why those foreigners are so interested in soccer.
Schef33
August 24, 2003 at 02:42AM View BBCode
Soccer is so serious in other countries it is discusting...Did anyone see the article in sports illistrated about what Sadam Hussein's son does to the players after they lose....I dont remember every detail but he lashes them so their back is blleding and open wound...then he dumps sand in it or something and drags them from a cart along tar...That is insane...no one does that over baseball..also there was a Columbian(I think he was Columbian) player who scored on his own goal...and the columbians shot him. Unfortunately these crazy foreigners take soccer so seriously and its more popular than baseball. Sorry to anyone who plays soccer but for most of the world its like a bunch of psycopaths with cleats running after a ball.
andrew
All i am saying is lets not simply say "the rest of the world takes sports too serious" because we are not innocent either. Sorry for the rant.
August 24, 2003 at 02:57AM View BBCode
I agree that soccer fanatics take things too far but it is not like the fas here in America are always the best behaived. Who remembers the hockey dad who killed a parent from the other team? It seems that the problem is not as much fans at major sporting events but parents at youth sporting events. I can say that this is true first hand seeing how I work at a park as a coach. Right now I coach 3 baseball teams one of them is 6 and 7 year old kids. You would figure that the parents would be chill (parks and rec summer ball, 6 and 7 years old...) you would be wrong. These parents get way to into the game, yelling at the umps, opposing fans, ect. I know that this is not as bad as what happens in other contries at pro games but these are 6 and 7 year old kids, they don't even know who is winning 1/2 the time (if even half).All i am saying is lets not simply say "the rest of the world takes sports too serious" because we are not innocent either. Sorry for the rant.
BravesLuver
August 24, 2003 at 03:00AM View BBCode
No one likes to see their child strike out, and the pitcher raise a fist or whatnot. No one wants to see their son hockey player continuously checked by one abnoxious defender. But killing is taking it too far.
Schef33
August 24, 2003 at 03:09AM View BBCode
Andrew your right its not just soccer its everywhere...I played ice hockey up intill a year ago when I moved and when I was in a league at about age 8 or 9 one of my teammates dads takes him off the team while screaming at the coach because he took him out and put in a less skilled player(me)...How embarassing...oh and on a lighter note I did get better at hockey:D
Schef33
August 24, 2003 at 03:10AM View BBCode
oh I forgot to mention that the kids dad took him off the team and ended this kids hockey "career" and this is recreational.
BravesLuver
:P
August 24, 2003 at 03:12AM View BBCode
Some just get too into it. It's scary. Probably mostly about the money:P
ME
baseball/football/basketball co-exist in USA about equally. canada is into hockey mostly, the caribean and central america like baseball most with soccer 2nd, south america likes soccer most. in europe soccer is undoubted #1 but basketball has become popular as well. japan likes soccer and baseball alot. rest of world is mostly soccer. football has become somewhat popular in japan and europe but still awy behind others.
i cant stand to watch soccer, and it was un to play until about age 13, when the gmae becomes pass the ball in circles. it was very fun to play as a little kid but got boring.
August 24, 2003 at 04:33AM View BBCode
soccer is top sport in most of worldbaseball/football/basketball co-exist in USA about equally. canada is into hockey mostly, the caribean and central america like baseball most with soccer 2nd, south america likes soccer most. in europe soccer is undoubted #1 but basketball has become popular as well. japan likes soccer and baseball alot. rest of world is mostly soccer. football has become somewhat popular in japan and europe but still awy behind others.
i cant stand to watch soccer, and it was un to play until about age 13, when the gmae becomes pass the ball in circles. it was very fun to play as a little kid but got boring.
Smocko
I heartily enjoy watching soccer. Did anyone else watch the World Cup last year? I got up at 3am every night for a month to watch. The World Cup is the greatest sporting event you'll ever see.
Soccer is a worldwide sport
August 24, 2003 at 07:19AM View BBCode
Baseball is a purely American invention.I heartily enjoy watching soccer. Did anyone else watch the World Cup last year? I got up at 3am every night for a month to watch. The World Cup is the greatest sporting event you'll ever see.
skierdude44
August 24, 2003 at 04:22PM View BBCode
schef u pointed out the psycotic acts of soccer fans in iraq and columbia but we have to remember that those countries r iraq and columbia. i mean phsycos were in control of iraq until a couple months ago and columbia is famous for its civil wars and drug cartel. but yea i have to say that parents can take sports way too far. i remember my baseball coach from a couple years ago. he didnt kill anyone but he wuz a psyco too. i wuz 9 or ten at the time and u shouldve heard him scream at us. the umpires in my league r blind anyway and they will literally call a pitch in the other batters box a strike and if u struck out especially looking u would never hear the end of it. and of course no1 swung at the pitch in the other batters box bcuz 1. u cant hit it and 2. if u swing and miss u get yelled at for swinging at a ball. one time he took his own son out of the game bcuz he struck out on a pitch like that. some days he wuz in a worse mood than others and the days that he wuz in a good mood we won but the games that he wuz in a bad mood we lost. i remember that when we made it to the playoffs we lost our first game fortunately for us it wuz double elimination and for some reason after that game he lightened up and we won 3 or 4 in a row. by then we were two games from the world series and coach got to the game rite b4 it started and he wuz in the worst mood i ever saw him in. his pep talk to us included killing those bastards across the field and how much he hated their coach and how he would do anything to beat them. when ever we made a mistake no matter how little he exploded at us. anyway we lost the game by 1 run and after that he yelled screamed and cursed at us for half an hour after the game wuz over. he called us things like shitbags and faggots and we were only a bunch of 9 and 10 year olds.
TheSkipper
August 24, 2003 at 09:45PM View BBCode
i love the world cup and i got very little sleep last time... the US did pretty well, too... hopefully better next time
Cubsfan13
August 25, 2003 at 01:30AM View BBCode
The US could have gone even further if it wasn't for a blown call against Germany.
TheSkipper
i thought it was a sham, too.
when i played soccer, if your hand touched it, whether intentional or not, it was called, and inside the goalie's box, it meant a penalty kick...
oh well, different rules i guess
August 25, 2003 at 01:47PM View BBCode
you're talking about that handball at the goalline against germany that wasn't called?i thought it was a sham, too.
when i played soccer, if your hand touched it, whether intentional or not, it was called, and inside the goalie's box, it meant a penalty kick...
oh well, different rules i guess
happy
August 25, 2003 at 03:04PM View BBCode
everyone has said soccer, but i gotta say baseball. It all depends on what you say is most popular. Sure almost everyone in every other country like soccer better than baseball, but baseball players are paid better, and baseball makes more money than soccer, so theoretically moneywise, baseball is more popular. And soccer sure is boring.
HollywoodOz
Firstly, soccer is not only the most popular game on the planet, it's the most played game in the USA. Check the figures - more men, women and children play it than any other organized sport.
Secondly, there is WAY more money in soccer than baseball. Sure, the best baseball player gets more than the best soccer player, but there must be 5,000 soccer players in the world who get paid more than a million a year to play... how many baseball players do? Those in the major leagues and..?
Oh, and baseball? Invented by a Canadian. The idea that it was a Cooperstown creation has been pretty widely dismissed as just PR by the early major league honchos. They also snared the origins of basketball too. And apple pie, if you ask them.
And they do like to talk about how they burned the original Whitehouse to the ground... god, they go on and on...
August 25, 2003 at 05:33PM View BBCode
Happy, you're so far wrong I'm astounded you haven't fallen off the planet.Firstly, soccer is not only the most popular game on the planet, it's the most played game in the USA. Check the figures - more men, women and children play it than any other organized sport.
Secondly, there is WAY more money in soccer than baseball. Sure, the best baseball player gets more than the best soccer player, but there must be 5,000 soccer players in the world who get paid more than a million a year to play... how many baseball players do? Those in the major leagues and..?
Oh, and baseball? Invented by a Canadian. The idea that it was a Cooperstown creation has been pretty widely dismissed as just PR by the early major league honchos. They also snared the origins of basketball too. And apple pie, if you ask them.
And they do like to talk about how they burned the original Whitehouse to the ground... god, they go on and on...
Cubsfan13
August 26, 2003 at 12:15AM View BBCode
The funny thing is Beckham may not be one of the top 5 players on his team.
skierdude44
August 26, 2003 at 12:16AM View BBCode
all i kno about him is that rheal madrid paid 41.4 mill or sumthin like that for him. if hes not the best player y soo much money?
Cubsfan13
August 26, 2003 at 12:22AM View BBCode
He is kind of known more for off the field stuff, even though he is a good player.
Smocko
Beckham's not the best player
August 26, 2003 at 12:29AM View BBCode
he's behind ronaldo, zidane, and figo. ridiculous team, the uber-yankees of soccer.
Cubsfan13
August 26, 2003 at 12:35AM View BBCode
and possibly Roberto Carlos, there are many teams like that in Europe though so not as Yankeeesque as they appear.