Why I dislike Soccer

Note: This post was written last July during the World Cup.

Alright, I can now officially say why I dislike soccer besides saying its boring. I have watched every game I could in this World Cup when I ignored it completely back in '02.

Soccer kills itself by how important the yellow and red cards are in each match. Players flop down at every chance they feel a collision with another player is possible. They do this as well in the NBA to draw fouls, but drawing a foul in the NBA isn't as game deciding or as tournament deciding as in soccer. France won their match against Portugal for lucking out on getting a penalty kick. I think the United States was screwed out of some decisions that cost them their games against Italy and Ghana. They lost too many good players on bad calls. It creates an atmosphere of making the flops as dramatic as possible. I remember when the United States was playing Italy that I wasn't hoping for a goal at the end. I could tell their players were too tired. I was hoping one of them gave a miraculous flop in the right area and would be able to get a penalty kick from it. Yellow cards shouldn't decide games the way they do. Hockey is very much like soccer. I say soccer needs to calm down with the infractions and start becoming more like hockey.

Ah, I'm also an American. A typical American for that matter. Green Bay Packer training camp holds much more interest for me than the World Cup has. A few days ago, I was getting my lap top fixed and the two technicians were discussing the World Cup. They were relatively my age or younger. I joined in with discussion on who I thought would win it all. When I asked them about their thoughts on other sports, they immediately got arrogant by saying how Americans will never understand the brilliance of soccer and blah blah. Fine, but I could also tell they were the types that were chewed up in high school sports. Football would have killed them. Thus soccer rules because it is the one high school sport where you can have 5 atheletic guys on a field and also 5 dorks and still have a winning team. Thats why soccer moms flourish everywhere. Of course, only in America.