Message:Should be like Hockey, encourage fights and body check no penalty. Girl's field hockey has stick and hip checks but not futbol?
Should be like basketball, fast break by eliminating the off-sides rule. Which every score I watch has the person receiving the ball off-sides. The rule isn't enforced if a goal is scored in 0-0 game. Manufacture tension.
Should be like polo and remove the goalie's power of using his hands. Water polo is more strenuous than soccer. It's just running a marathon with the extra requirement that you have to keep kicking a ball someone else tosses in your way.
Soccer is actually the older name for the sport. So why are we 'Muricans seen as wrong for calling our football, Football.
In 1863, the term soccer was coined from a slang abbreviation of the word "association," to distinguish the game from rugby and other sports with balls and kicking. The Brits called it soccer football. Then plain Futbol. All about the nut-shot; those make highlight reels.
"Games played by kicking, hitting, throwing or carrying a ball have been around for thousands of years." (History channel) All soccer did was drop the throwing and hitting and excitement.
The greatest talents of America have yet to score in the sport's Super World Series Bowl? Whole is run by the Mafia? In countries that are one step from Stallag-Gulag? Let's decide this next game by skipping the ninety minuets and go right to the goal kicks. Tear those shirts off lads, you did oh so well.
Yours,
IronRed
29-Nov-2022