imagine if they cared about soccer
>>155342246>imagine if they cared about soccerThey'd be granting citizenship to all the rising foreign talents to represent the US.
>>155342246They came in second at rugby sevens back in 2018 to FijiThey could take over soccer rugby and cricket if they wantedBut football. Baseball and basketball is hiding their power level
>>155342246Back at you
>>155342387>rugby sevens
>>155342246I wish I was Australian
>>155342246Imagine if China or India did
we care about basketball and the best players are still africans and euros
>>155342387>They could take over soccer rugby and cricket if they wantedTaking over cricket is probably piss easy since it is played by a handful of underdeveloped shitholes with no sportive prowess at all ... and England and Australia, where it is apparently dyingRugby probably also is rather easy since it also isn't played in that many countries, but they'd have to understand the meta first and not just throw NFL shit at itSoccer/Football however is by far the most competitive sport on the planet. They would need a lot of effort to take over. Yeah, they can pull it off. But it would be very toughConsider basketball. They are not as dominant as they should be despite being the country that cares by far the most. Yurofootball is much more challenging in this regard. If their basketball efficiency were to translate over to yurofootball, they wouldn't make it to the top
>>155342246The whole world desperately wants Americans to get into sports, but when they do, everyone gets mad that they're ruining the sport.Why are you people like this?
>>155342246i mildly care about it
>>155342246Unironically it would be lethal. We would just buy the top players and dominate the world. Not gonna lie
>>155346114>The whole world desperately wants Americans to get into sportsReally? I never though that. I always assume it was solely an endeavor from FIFA
>>155346335Us having this world cup was simply one of the spoils of war gained during the 2015 FIFA corruption investigation
>>155344800>>155345142>>155345184>>155345761>>155345912>>155346119>>155346253But all of y'all were saying soccer was for fags before the tournament
I'm not even joking they're probably going to start dominating in ~20 years and Europoors will regret making fun of them
>>155346394Soccer is for fags however our zesty niggers are better than yours nana boo boo we are better than you
>>155346394we have the best fags in the world
>>155342246I unironically only want Pakistan, India and China to care about it enough to qualify, I'd love to see the shitshow.Americans aren't truly passionate about sports, they're passionate about the products that are their favorite teams.
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>>155346394There are 342.7 million people in this country and it recently overtook baseball as the 3rd most popular sport here. Don't believe everything 4channers say
>>155346516>Pakistan, India and China to care about it enough to qualifyCaring maybe, but qualifying? Fuck no>>155346401>boo hoo, yuros made fun of themThey ridiculed this sport themselves for ages, and now we aren't allowed to banter them?
>>155347068Imagine India vs Pakistan in a world cup?
>>155347118Imagine the smell
>>155345761>ChinaJust watch Shaolin Soccer. That's what happens when China decides to care.
>>155346993 >and it recently overtook baseball as the 3rd most popular sport herMaybe you should let us know
>>155347171Women don't know east from west, let alone major cultural and sporting events are happening
>>155347118Imagine some of the worst soccer you've ever seen, easy
IMAGINE IF WE CARED
>>155347204As if we should care about it, we just want the online seethe.
>>155342246https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_vPjZpkwAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_vPjZpkwAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_vPjZpkwA
>>155347218this
Nobody here actually cares about soccer. Literally no one I know is watching these games. Must be an immigrant thing.
>>155347305Immigrants and people under 35
>>155342246>>155342339the US could be amazing but the "Americanism" gets in their own way> no promotion / relegation in a country of over 300 million is laughable because 20 owners want to hoard it all for themselves> not having at least 5 tiers of professional leagues is laughable> Portugal, a country with the same population as Michigan, has 5 tiers> relying on the old high school -> colllege -> draft -> pro system is laughable> Euros and South Americans are pro at 15, and are starting on rosters at 17 - 18, or are loaned to lower divisions to get experience> You need to be turbo rich, or be a footballer's son, to be able to travel to Europe in your teens to get on a teamUS will never be a serious contender
>>155347391>>155347305literally everyone i know is watching these games. stay mad that "gridiron" is a niche sport
>>155347827nigger i'm on your sideIt's mostly young people and new citizens that watch the sport, that's a fact. I got my white boomer dad into it but most people his age still brush if off as unserious.
>>155347391Is the cultural gap between millenial/zoomers and boomers so big in the US of A?
>>155347827go back to mexico
>>155348151YepLegacy media vs. social media's algorithmic echo chambersBoth have their pros and cons, best thing to do is go out and have conversations with people IRL and realize not everyone is so bad
>>155342246I honestly think that if they start to care about it, plus a few years of work, they genuinely could turn into a great team.
>>155347796these are all things that can be changednever is a pretty strong word
>>155347796The US should have State Championships (before the national one) like we do.
>>155347148It would be the one spot on earth even the flies would not deign to go.
>>155348321we have tons of regional championships in college at different levelswhich is where most of our sporting history comes from
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>>155346111does germany play any sport? serious questioni know they have german football players, but as a team they don't really do anything so not sure if it counts
>>155348395No, I'm talking about professional level. The US should be a Confederation of 50 (51?) State Federations. Each with their own Clubs and state championships, as well as a National League.
>>155348429Looking forward to the Coeur d'Alene vs. Boise derby myself
Imagine they were actually efficient and built public transit and had public healthcare and spent money at home not sent it to overpriced military manufacturers and israel etcthey'd be light years ahead of western europe. so I'm glad they suck in that way. they'd be completely insufferable
>>155348470SOVL
>>155346516>Americans aren't truly passionate about sports, they're passionate about the products that are their favorite teams.This is a good post. Not a big sports guy, but I watch some handegg mostly to see athletic plays, but do somewhat root for particular teams.
>>155342246It wouldn't change so much, Europe would lose the monopoly of "money market" where all players want to be, but ucl would still be more prestigious and in other regions the current situation wouldn't change much.They would likely have one world cup at least but then again, they wouldn't like that, look at England, France, huge hubs on the strongest conference (uefa), with access to all the elite competitions and hundred year old clubs like Arsenal, Liverpool... Even they have 1, 2... World cups, Spain with their massive impact and dominance has only one, which they won fairly recently, do you really think that the United states of America, with their massive ego would be fine with that? If they're not winning at least 80% of the time like in basketball and baseball they don't watch it, remember formula One? They were there, they were just as average as anybody and then they quit, preferred NASCAR and Indycar instead.Same thing with metric system, they function in a fine line between wanting to be biggest one in everything and preferring to isolate from the world then to be average.
>>155342246It would be something like this, pretty scary if you ask meSometimes is good for burgers to not like football
>>155342246>The United States has been referred to by some as the Hegemon of World Sports. It would certainly be interesting if lots of interested shifted to kickball.
>>155348765Not necessarily, we benefitted heavily from Title IX for a long time because we were basically the only nation who cared to develop female players
>>155348543I just saw someone be a first draft pick in the NFL just because he scored good on athletic tests. He never played football before. This would never ever happen in soccer.I also like that soccer you can be tall, short and built differently which adds a lot of versatility and playstyles. Basketball just rewards tall people For me the only team sport I considered as skilled as soccer is hockey. You can’t rogue that hockey is even more skilled.
>>155348819*can argue that hockey is even more skilled
>>155346993>There are 342.7 million people in this country and it recently overtook baseball as the 3rd most popular sport here.you're delusional paco
>>155342246im not trying to /pol/bait but as the usa becomes more latino arent they actually starting to care? i remember being shocked seeing american zoomers wearing football shirts
>>155349891I'm white and I played soccer for 14 years (preschool through highschool) but most people stop playing after a few years and pretty much everyone stops after highschool. Obviously there are some exceptions but that's generally how it was when I stopped playing in 2016
>>155346111>taking over cricket is probably piss easy since it is played by a handful of underdeveloped shitholes with no sportive prowess at allthat’s not how it works at all, Brazil won 5 world championships despite being poor and almost all of their greatest players came from impoverished backgrounds, in a lot of nations sporting prowess comes from passion and the amount of kids playing on the streets because there’s nothing else really to do. I see in the future an increasing shift toward the global south as the West gets increasingly older, lazy, addicted and obese and the South, due to high birth rates and low industrialisation / tech use, has the youth , energy and passion to take the torch
>>155347796Every state should have their own league with mulitiple tiers. It's fine if college teams play with the other regular teams. Then at the end of the season USA should have their own Champions League including the top teams of all leagues. Also, every few years should be a USA world cup where players represent the state they were born in.
>>155349891>>1553499732nd gen tend to become assimilated and pick up handegg, baseball or basketball as their sports. They might tune in to the WC every 4 year for heritage's sake but the club scene is unlikely to be popularI see this happen IRL. Cousin's kids in the US are into basketball and handegg while their dad is a soccer fan.Culture plays a big role in sports preference.
>>155349891Yes.But it's not the same obviously.
>>155346401Is it even possible to dominate I thought it was a random/high upset sport, and with fewer matches than baseball
>>155346993>and it recently overtook baseball as the 3rd most popular sport hereAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>155347934>new citizens*illegals and anchor babiesGet the fuck out.
>>155348471>imagine if the us was an impoverished communist shithole like yurop, south america, asia, and africa where people have no rights and ursula van der leyen makes everyone's decisions for them every dayNo, I'd rather not.
>>155342246get rid of the flopping if you want americans to care more than every 4 yearsI was disgusted every time I saw one of my team's own players doing that shit
>>155347796No one will watch all those crappy leagues. There wont be enough players to fill all those crappy leagues. Those crappy leagues won't make enough money to sustain themselves. That idea will never work here, not because of the dumb shit you said but because of the most American thing that you missed, by and large we didn't give a fuck about soccer.
If you don't live in any of the host cities you wouldn't even know its happeningI haven't watched a single gameOnly "hype" I've seen has been the soccer shit on bottles of soda and bags of chips
>>155342246Imagine if they cared about winning wars or treating sick people.
>>155350010Closest we ever got to that sort of thing was with post-WW2 baseball Some of those semi-pro leagues are still around but nobody cares about them
If you want Americans to care about soccer you need to get rid of the flopping and rolling around on the ground in agony trying to score a free kick. It just makes the game look gay. Argue this all you want but there’s more physical contact in all 3 popular sports, football hockey and basketball and even more in baseball and you don’t see players rolling on the ground crying from contact.In soccer as soon as their shoulders rub a player is throwing his hand in the air hoping the ref calls a foul
i think australia are going to beat us this week
>>155342246That would be awful. It would mean we've reached critical immigrant mass.
I don't know what you yanks see in Baseball, what an awful sport.
>>155342387>rugby sevensKkkkkkk
Imagine if we cared about them caring about soccer
>>155342387>soccerThe name is footballAnd no, they wouldntTaking a lot of roides doesnt make you good at it
>>155348819He wasn't a first rounder, he was a 7th rounder. Massive difference.
>>155355146You do >>155347171
>>155355213Thats no me
>>155347796I like the American sports system actually. I think it works well for us. We do pretty well internationally in the sports we care about.
>>155347118Doesn't that happen in cricket?
>>155346111TrueNever hear about the ashes anymore but it was supposed to be more important than soccer to themDid they finally get them back and it stopped mattering?
>>155347796Soccer could always try being less boring, too.I mean, your big sport is the one where you a rule that you just can't use your hands unless you're goal keeping? The most articulated and skillful part of your body? Really, what is the point? We're not horses.
>>155342246Impossible. Americans love niggers.They need to watch basketball to worship them. In actual football diversity is needed to be champion.
>>155354312YeahIt's like the physical manifestation of every time a socialist speaksUniquely repulsive to honest people whether it's their team doing it or not >You can't really be saying honest people are rare outside of your awful country! I am. Inside too, just not as vanishingly rare as the rest of the world.
>>155355047Nothing, we dropped it for being boring, ask the Japanese. Still uses full body and involves strategy though.
>>155356790That you would try this comment in this particular WC is hilarious, but sad
>>155356925>we
>>155350010>USA world cup where players represent the state they were born in.kino
>>155356761I was trying to think of what American friendly soccer would actually be like and all I can come up with is basketball.
>>155356942Keep worshipping your basketball teams full of niggers. They only way they can win is thanks to height advantage.
>>155356999Da Yankees how dauh you weauh a Sox hat in da Yankees city what's next you put ketchup on yuh hot dawg what's next yuh eat yuh bagel without lox samatayew fuhgeddaboudit
>>155357041Basketball is just soccer with full body athleticism and the goal requires skill to hit instead of having a dedicated guy standing in it, so you actually get higher scoring generally the higher the skill level even with the defenders matching it, rather than 0-0 after five hours with forty minutes left to score before the shootout gachaing the win to whoever's goalie is more awakeThe level of allowed contact is about the same
>>155357130The European WC teams are full of niggers thoughAnd you are their intellectual equal clearly
>>155350010>>155357025Yea that would be fun
>>155357177>The level of allowed contact is about the sameI guess, but the way it's treated is definitely different. I can't really imagine any NBA player flopping and not being called a gigantic pussy for it.>>155357130You don't know ball man, it's okay.
Soccer is just too yuropoor coded (read: gay and cringe). It will never take off in America outside of the small reddit soiboi pockets you see 'ultra'ing their local MLS franchise. There will never be an actual grassroots fanbase. In fact, there was a huge inorganic effort to push soccer at the expense of football over a decade ago with the CTE meme, and even that saw soccer gaining no ground and football being more popular than ever.
Soccer in America is, at best, a generic day care activity that borderline alcoholic suburban moms can use to drop their rugrats off for a few hours each week while they go have affairs, drink cocktails, spend money, and LARP as sex and the city characters. It's not a real sport.
>>155357177>he thinks mastering ball control with your foot requires similar skill than with your handsDamn, you were well trained to worship niggers.Football can be way more tactical than basketball. And the tactics can be enjoyed by something that understand a bit of Football. Not for people with low attention-span.>>155357203>no reading comprehensionRead again, I said champions.>2018 WC Thanks to griezmann>2022 WC Griezmann not in his prime and France lost. Argentina with zero niggers won.Sorry if this game doesn't treat your niggers well. Niggers go back to their comfy zone thanks to height advantage in basketball.
>>155357177Sorry there's no way basketball takes more skill to score in than soccer, especially not in the modern NBA where you can't play defense
>>155357336>>he thinks mastering ball controlLet me stop you right there. We don't think anything about soccer. It's gay as fuck and we don't care.
>less than 1% of Americans that are good enough to play college sports ever make it to the pro leagues>they claim they "don't care" to become multi millionaires playing others sports overseas>they claim they "could easily dominate" these sports as well
>>155342246Same to you
>>155357527Losing ones guns is not worth millions of dollars.
>>155357388Defensive football is boring for the average fan but it's a tactic that has won world cups."Most effective tactic available" in football can never be unique because all kind of teams have reached the glory historically.>>155357418I know, you don't care about football, go back to watch basketball to worship the most overwhelmingly common race playing that sport.
>>155354115When the Super Bowl was in NYC i was working literally 10 blocks from the “fan fest” and you wouldn’t know a thing was going on.I’m glad euros here are enjoying themselves and the Brits can drink to their hearts content at the bars but big events don’t take over here the way they do in other places.
>>155357566Playing Rugby in France makes you at least 300k a year, Japanese rugby league also pays close to 300k a year, with some players earning a million. Both countries are safer than any major city in the US.
>>155357827Motherfucker if we cared about safety do you think we'd own half a BILLION guns?
>>155357858You just refuted yourself in a couple of minutes...
>>155357827>saferWho cares faggot lol
>>155357895
>>155357895He literally did not. You are illiterate.
>>155358056>I need my guns>lmao who cares about safety>100 times more likely to be killed in the streets in the USI guess these are the results of zoomer education being cut in half by COVID
>>155359539Are you retarded? You think Americans buy guns because of safety? Americans buy guns because we fucking love guns.
>>155359995This has to be one of the saddest copes ever >yeah bro I like being broke and ot a millionaire doing a thing that I claim would be quite easy for me to do, better to count money for Mr shekelberg >yeah I much rather earn 90k a year working 50 hours a week than 350k playing in some low level league in a country 10 times safer and cleaner
>>155342246they’re starting to care. USA have the potential to be dangerous
>>155361891Nope. Still don't care. Dangerous? Yes. Caring? Not even close.
I can't imagine that, it's too farfetched.
>>155342246we will never carean average MLS player makes women's basketball tier money. no athletic person is going to focus on becoming pro in it.
>>155342246oops they need pronouns to enjoy soccer
>>155362274i can't believe anons are this stupid still. do you think people here are limited to playing in the MLS?
>>155342246Our athletes are twice the size of poverty kick manlets i dont think theres much of an overlap between our pros in fun sports that would translate to unwatachable cardio slop
