UK soccer boss losing players to 'video game passion'

This caricature looks nothing like whoopie, it has eyebrows.

It looks like Ronaldino to me,but it could be an oiled excited Whoopi

America is also the country that brought the world the exciting sport known as baseball.

I'd take soccer over baseball any day...

ahahahaha, soccer sucks ass. baseball has strategy, they don't just kick the ball around for 2 hours and score 1 point

@blooh

If you're going to make ignorant comments, just don't post.

Soccer doesn't sucks in fact is more fun than Halo 3 in legendary but all the soccer events sure suck even the world cup sucks ass most of the games end in 0-1 or 3-2 4-6 Max.

I agree with Blooh baseball is better,I used to play it when I was a kid.

if you like watching fatasses stand around for 3 hours then baseball is your thing. i'd equate baseball players with the same level of athleticism as golfers. i challenge any pro baseball player to play 10 minutes of high school level soccer and not get a heart attack.

soccer is the world's sport. baseball is family-oriented filler. it's america's past time: because fat kids can actually play this one.

Except for the fact that high school soccer is a girl's sport and most US schools do not have male soccer teams. Soccer is not the worlds sport, it's the 3rd worlds sport. Gives the impoverished countries something to feel good about. NFL Football and NHL Hockey ftw.

Soccer is more active - 18 people are basically running for 90 min. Baseball gives every one a chance to be the focus of attention - a star - hitting that run, and americanos each that up.

so for health, i'd prefer soccer, for ideology - baseball.

I find it intriguing and creepy that I pondered the same thing. o_o


oh... GO MAN'U!

lol +1

The USA women's team is pretty good.

Actually, bar Olympic sports and Tennis, America are very isolated with their sports. I don't know how it came about, but there's American sports, and what-every-one-else plays sports. American sports tend to be faster paced but... well.. a bit dumb, while the others are slower placed but more technical. Introducing one to the other's audeance ALWAYS ends in disaster.

"American sports tend to be faster paced but... well.. a bit dumb, while the others are slower placed but more technical."

I'd like to know how you came to that conclusion based on baseball, american football, golf, etc. Basketball is fast paced, but no more so than soccer.

My favorate example is in motor sport. In the NASCAR is kept simple with the emphasis on overtaking and entertaining the crowed. All well and good, but you can't hide the fact it's a load of rednecks going around in circles in fibreglass cars. On the flip side is Formula One. Hyper advanced (and expensive) cars that not only could drive on a tunnel ceiling, but can turn left AND right and can only be driven by the uber fit. However, as it's a technology race as much as it is a driver one, you get years where one team is way better then the others and it's as boring as hell to watch.

I wish there was a middle ground, but the world is never perfect.

yeah but only retards watch cars driving for fun

i do enough of that when i commute

Jonny, mate. Talk sense.
"Explain how the two games in question would look any different."

I do not need to explain, your ignorance about anything outside of America speaks for itself. If you genuinely believe there is no difference between professional and school FOOTBALL (It is played with the feet, unlike that watered down game of Rugby your Fratboys play), then I worry about the state of your sanity. However: I would suggest the pace, length of passes played, power of shots etc. would be a good place to begin comparison. Oh, and the score-line would also be significantly lower in the adult game; admittedly this would put off the vast majority of Americans from watching as they prefer sports that end with scores like 180-130. Just like the kids really.

As for your posturing that “the rest of the world can have soccer and we'll stick to kicking the shit out of you guys in everything else”, would you care to elaborate, because outside of Athletics, I’m struggling to think of a sport the U.S. “dominates” at the moment. Tiger woods is an anomaly, and on the wane. The Russians are kicking your arse producing Heavyweights at the moment, and tennis is pretty much sewn up by an Austrian. Sure you are pretty competent at those sports/excuses for commercial breaks you guys adapted, but I suppose we will never know… The last World Cup final was between Italy and France whereas the last "World" Series?!… Hmmm (strokes chin).

what kind of sport gets scores around 300? that's crazy

i like football, lots of different ways to get varying amounts of points

and baseball's good too, it's one of the few sports without a clock, and there's overtime. seriously, ending games with a tie and no overtime is gay

"This point would be somewhat accurate if the Bird in question was flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet... and had poor eye sight. Sadly, as it is, itr is just another poor dig at the WORLD's greatest sport. Shame USA can't play, but hey, you can't win it all."

Explain how the two games in question would look any different. Since you didn't the first time I'm sure that you can't, but give it a try, it'll be amusing. And world's greatest sport my ass. I'm not sure why the USA should be ashamed that it "can't play" a sport that it doesn't give a rat's ass about. Tell you what, the rest of the world can have soccer and we'll stick to kicking the shit out of you guys in everything else.

The United States Soccer Association, a.k.a. NAMBLA, agrees.

I think is called Football in every other Country except in the U.S I'm not sure about Canada.

Canadian Football League - plays Canadian rules football (which beats the US brand every day of the week and twice on Grey Cup Sunday)

Canadian Soccer Association - administers Canadian national soccer teams which suck a gigantic meat missile

That answer your question?

I'm Canadian living in the UK... And I call that shit soccer all the time.. And nobody's touched me...
Stop acting likeyour countries so tough... Because it's not...

I dunno about you man, but all the athletes I have met have been pretty much on the same level of asshole as online gaming addicts. And lets not even bring the sports parents into this... yesh. At least with video games the anger is usually coming from a few people, not yelled at you from all sides by fans, parents, coaches, etc...

What I'm saying in, gamers are probably less overall aggressive than athletes, especially those that play for school teams or professionally...