| America does not love Soccer. | | | | game they would likely be considered "boring games". |
| As a nation we have never embraced the sport. For | | | | Since Soccer is usually low scoring, it equates instantly |
| over twenty years I have been hearing that the United | | | | to boring. |
| States was on "the cusp" of getting into soccer. It | | | | Our first two games in the World Cup ended in ties. |
| simply is not happening and I believe never will. | | | | Ties in American sports are horrible. No clear winner, |
| Soccer is played a large amount by young children in | | | | no clear loser. What a travesty. What an injustice. |
| America. It is fun and healthy way for them to get | | | | How can we decide if we want to laud or ridicule our |
| exercise and run around. As they get older it is less | | | | team. A tie! Shudder. A tie is like kissing your cousin. |
| about soccer and more about football and baseball. | | | | You get something out of it, yet it seems sick and |
| Many of our best athletes, who may have made great | | | | wrong also. |
| soccer players if they just kept playing soccer will | | | | All that being said, things are getting better for the |
| gravitate toward one of those sports. | | | | future of American Soccer. |
| "Futbol" is played in Europe and South and Central | | | | There is an old joke. I thought you said Americans eat, |
| America and is an energetic, enjoyable and well loved | | | | drink and sleep Soccer? I did, they just can not play it. |
| game. | | | | We are in a situation that is the reverse of that joke. |
| Soccer is played in the USA and is fairly bland and | | | | As a nation, America does not embrace the sport and |
| boring childrens game. | | | | likely never will. Our team, though, actually plays |
| Why this difference? It is simply because the | | | | beyond what they should. With the amount of interest |
| perceptions of the American audience, in general, can | | | | the public invest in soccer compared to what value |
| not get around the idea of soccer as a boring sport. | | | | other nations put on the sport, America should never |
| I believe one of the reasons for this is scoring. Soccer | | | | even have made the World Cup. Yet we did. We |
| games are low scoring affairs. If you had a 6-3 football | | | | certainly should have gotten stomped by England, a |
| game, a 1-0 baseball game and a 64-60 basketball | | | | country rabid for its "futbol". But we did not. |