you can have a pickup game of soccer...when was the last time you had a pickup game of baseball...maybe catch...and with football, maybe a pickup game...of sorts...but something like soccer you can have 3 v3 or something...just less minimum equipment needed, so it's easier for kids to play...
"Skinny Dweebs" are about as good at soccer as fat kids are at football. They can grasp the sport and survive in some rec league, but that is the end of their career. I am assuming you never went past a rec league in soccer if that is your mentality, because you would have been torn up in anything competitive with that attitude.
Bunch of reasons:
1) Requires no money to play. Children all over the world play with no shoes and without a proper ball.
2) Can be played on almost any surface in almost any size area.
3) Can be played by any number of players greater than 2.
4) Requires little or no skill to start and have fun.
5) Played by almost every country around the world so you can go everywhere and find someone to play with.
6) Can be played by people of all ages and sizes on the same field effectively (ie no inherent advantage in being tall, bif or strong).
1) Requires no money to play. Children all over the world play with no shoes and without a proper ball.
2) Can be played on almost any surface in almost any size area.
3) Can be played by any number of players greater than 2.
4) Requires little or no skill to start and have fun.
5) Played by almost every country around the world so you can go everywhere and find someone to play with.
6) Can be played by people of all ages and sizes on the same field effectively (ie no inherent advantage in being tall, bif or strong).
HumblePie
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Okay, simple...
Can you play football by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? No.
Can you play basketball by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? No.
Can you play tennisl by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? No.
Can you play baseball by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? No.
Can you play <insert any sport besides soccer> by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? No.
Can you play SOCCER by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? Yes!!!
That's it. It takes the least amount of players, time, commitment, equipment, and money to have fun with. By no means does that make you a master at the sport, but it is the simplest game PERIOD to play. It is also the most complicated too if you are looking to master the sport in a competitive team field.
Look, anyone with 2 legs and a ball can hop right in and play the game. It allows kids of all shapes, sizes, talent, and backgrounds to play and have fun. It can be the safest or one of the more dangerous team play games (I consider rugby a tad more dangerous team game but not by much).
For those reasons alone that should prove why it's popular in any context.
Can you play football by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? No.
Can you play basketball by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? No.
Can you play tennisl by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? No.
Can you play baseball by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? No.
Can you play <insert any sport besides soccer> by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? No.
Can you play SOCCER by yourself, butt nekkid and nothing else around, with just a ball? Yes!!!
That's it. It takes the least amount of players, time, commitment, equipment, and money to have fun with. By no means does that make you a master at the sport, but it is the simplest game PERIOD to play. It is also the most complicated too if you are looking to master the sport in a competitive team field.
Look, anyone with 2 legs and a ball can hop right in and play the game. It allows kids of all shapes, sizes, talent, and backgrounds to play and have fun. It can be the safest or one of the more dangerous team play games (I consider rugby a tad more dangerous team game but not by much).
For those reasons alone that should prove why it's popular in any context.
Anyone arguing soccer's not physical, then what about Baseball? are you even near your opponent? or Basketball with the no-contact rules? or American Football with their ton of padding, helmet, jock strap, gumshield, kneepads...? Anyway, soccer requires alot of fitness to last the 90min duration, not to mention skill to give out precise passes, and taking it round players. Professional level is a very high standard, each piece of possesion is crucial in a match, tactics is also key for a winning side.
So all in all, you are entertained throught the match without timeouts, or being obsorbed by advertisements every minute, and is the most played sport in the world.
So all in all, you are entertained throught the match without timeouts, or being obsorbed by advertisements every minute, and is the most played sport in the world.
BoberFett
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Flexing your ePenis?
Football is for losers. Morons with short attention spans. 5 seconds of action followed by two minutes of advertisements.
Half of the players on a football team have no athletic ability. Their only redeeming quality that gets them a spot on the team is size.
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And soccer without a goal? Sure I can kick the ball around all over... but I can dribble a basketball around too can't I? Or run/kick/throw a football. You think NBA players (guards) got good by just shooting the ball into a hoop over and over? HELL NO. They dribbled their basketballs everywhere they went.
This argument sucks
HumblePie
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Because to play basket ball you need to be able to move the ball, as in dribble. Which requires a hard surface to bang the ball against. So if you are in a grassy field, you can't play basket ball. If you want to have a goal for basketball to keep track of points, you need a basket or hoop of some sort. With soccer you can use an imaginary line anywhere and if the ball crosses it then you score.
With football, all you can do is run with the ball... which you can run without a ball and that sport is called running. Gee golly whillerkers. to play foot ball, you need another person to at least throw the ball to and yet another to move the ball around and that person needs someone to throw the ball to. So you need 4 people to play football. Hence, you can't play football by yourself or it can't be considered football.
i grew up playing soccer because i came from asian side where soccer was so popular at that time.
Because soccer is a physically demanding sport? Compare soccer players and football/baseball players.
Football players - take a break every 2 minutes to puff up
Baseball players - stand around and chew on tobacco all game
Pro soccer athletes probably run more than 5 miles A GAME. Not only that, only 3 players can be substituted the ENTIRE game, meaning 8 players will play the WHOLE game with only a halftime break.
Football players - take a break every 2 minutes to puff up
Baseball players - stand around and chew on tobacco all game
Pro soccer athletes probably run more than 5 miles A GAME. Not only that, only 3 players can be substituted the ENTIRE game, meaning 8 players will play the WHOLE game with only a halftime break.
That is just garbage. First of all, there are no advertisements when you play football on a team, unless you're on a college/pro team.
Secondly, football players are much more athletic than soccer players. Anyone can run. But can you run, get tackled, then get back up and do it again? I guarantee that a soccer player would be broken by the end of the game.
Like I said, I've played soccer and I'll still play soccer, but it doesn't compare to football. I'll do both, let's see a soccer player do both. They'll lack the required muscularity to take hard hits in football.
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Soccer (short for "Assoc", which were the original, Associated Football rules), is popular because it is a very accessible game, as several have pointed out. You don't have to be particularly tall or strong, but speed and endurance (far more common attributes) are very beneficial. It's also economically accessible. All you need is a ball and throw down a couple of markers for goals (most pickup games involve a couple of shoes or stick for goals and all shots on goal have to be low to the ground - which, coincidentally, is the hardest shot for a keeper to stop). And logisticly, only basketball requries as few people to play.
I have played all my life, and I love the game because I finally understood it. It's fluid, and high paced, and surprisingly brutal. However, it does not mesh with american broadcasting standards. The cameras are way too far from the field to show the agility and skill of the players, or a zoom in removes your ability to see a play develop since a simple, lightly kicked pass can go 30 yards into open field. Additionally, it does not contain the commercial breaks that the broadcasters are comfortable with, and more importantly, it does not have a series of successive, clearly defined successes and failures like american football has, to keep the short attention span american public engaged.
cliff notes: incredible game to play. boring to watch on american TV.
I have played all my life, and I love the game because I finally understood it. It's fluid, and high paced, and surprisingly brutal. However, it does not mesh with american broadcasting standards. The cameras are way too far from the field to show the agility and skill of the players, or a zoom in removes your ability to see a play develop since a simple, lightly kicked pass can go 30 yards into open field. Additionally, it does not contain the commercial breaks that the broadcasters are comfortable with, and more importantly, it does not have a series of successive, clearly defined successes and failures like american football has, to keep the short attention span american public engaged.
cliff notes: incredible game to play. boring to watch on american TV.
You must know something that I dont, because there was no World Cup in 1989. There was however a WC in 1990, which they beat argentina in 1-0.
Soccer players will just outlast football players. A football player needs oxygen after a 100 yd run - a soccer player will not.
See if a 300 lb guy can catch up to a 180 lb 4.3speed/40 yd soccer guy.
BoberFett
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I think what you meant to say was "I'm stupid." but since you're stupid, I'll forgive your deficient thought process.
Soccer doesn't require a goal. A goal is just an imaginary line. You don't need a net.
Dribbling a basketball, I always thought that there was more to do than dribble. I guess all of that shooting they do on TV is just for dramatic effect.
And unless you can kick and throw a football to yourself, it's not going to be a very exciting game.
soccer is a sport with no equipment needed just a ball, and you can play it with 8 people, just making small goals with rocks or backpacks 
, its pretty fun when you practice
, its pretty fun when you practice
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It's easy to point out the stupidity of just about any sport. The point is each one is fun to play for different reasons depending on who you ask.
I never understood the appeal of soccer however. Why run around for 90min and score maybe 1 time, that is LAME. Especially considering how HUGE the freaking goals are.
I never understood the appeal of soccer however. Why run around for 90min and score maybe 1 time, that is LAME. Especially considering how HUGE the freaking goals are.
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Football players wear pads. Soccer players don't, yet they get tackled and undercut in ways that are major penalties (clipping, chop blocks, etc) in football where the players are protected by pads. Take your argument and come back as a rugby fan and I'll listen.
I've played both sports. They are both heavy contact. I've gotten hurt much worse playing soccer (flipped over in mid air by opposing player and almost broke back, got kicked in head when I fell near ball) than I did playing football (broken knuckles and slightly cracked rib on tackles). I got back up from those two football tackles. The times I got hurt in soccer I almost didnt make it back. And I'm ignoring the dozens of shin, ligament & knee injuries I've suffered.
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