Many white people will tell you that they are very into soccer. But be careful, it’s a trap.
If you then attempt to engage them about your favorite soccer team or talk about famous moments in soccer history, you are likely to be met with blank stares. This is because white people don’t actually enjoy watching soccer, they just like telling their friends that they are into it.
In fact, the main reason white people like soccer is so they can buy a new scarf. As you may or may not know, many soccer teams issue special scarves, and white people cannot get enough of them!
Most white people choose a favorite soccer team based on either a study abroad experience or a particularly long vacation to Europe or South America. When they return, they like to tell their friends about how great “football” is and that they are committed to ‘getting more into’ now that they have returned home.
Some white people take this charade so far as to actually play in adult soccer leagues or attend a local professional match.
The best method for exploiting this is to ask a white person who their favorite football team is and how they came to be fans. This will allow them to tell you about their time abroad and feel as though they have impressed you with their knowledge. Once they have finished talking, it is acceptable to ask for favors.
Note: Europeans are actually into Soccer and are exempt from this entry, however they are free to use it to their advantage when in North America.
i used to live across the street from a big soccer complex.
Oh! the women and their visors!
The men with their polo tees tucked into their khaki shorts!
S.U.V.s lining the streets, creating horrible traffic jams taking up all the space, white people as far as the eye could see, jay-walking with little Brad and Amber in shin guards- lots of close calls …
i hated that crap and was thrilled to move away from there.
first!
i just listened to the npr interview. i liked the lady who really enthusiastically said how much she loves to laugh at herself. you can write about overexuberant
and i really hated the gentrification and no tv posts. the wes anderson/standing still at concert posts both grazed me, but those others hurt me bad
and i agree with comment 67 on #73 – sell out while you still can
This one is a real eye opener. I thought i knew a lot about white people, what with their cultural hegemony and all. Thanks for the heads up!
Don’t forget the usage of foreign/obscure footballer shirts taken from clubs around the world as a means to showcase ones status as cultured/well traveled.
uhh, not first
Just so you know, there are plenty of white people who aren’t also stupid and don’t like soccer, or even the idea of soccer.
Hahaha, so damn true. I have so many friends who say they love Manchester United ONLY after visiting London for the semester abroad.
i am so getting one of those scarves!
It means that was my mistake to believe what some of my friends from US said that they and many Americans as well like Soccer very much like Europians do and they may do anything to see the match of their favorite team?
Please tell White people that I will buy them Scarf but enjoy soccer. It is my favorite game.
Asians love soccer too, but the recent trend has gone towards basketball: http://www.thinkunique.net/stuffasianpeoplelike/2008/02/23/12-basketball/
=)
Peter.
the idea of falling in love with manchester united after visiting LONDON makes me physically ill.
Another quality entry. I love how they build off previous posts. After living in Barcelona for a year I got into soccer, and once I returned I tried to keep up with La Liga by watching some obscure soccer channel. Good times. Now, I’m in Japan having a field day with the Japanese ladies.
God, I’m so white.
Do they really like Nascar racing?
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This is so funny. Because when I come to think of it, your right!
– http://wweadam.com
dear lord! hahaha…i once had an ex boyfriend (white) who basically lied to me about his love of soccer and his skills so he could get a date with me ( a latin girl who likes and plays soccer)….he neither loved or could play soccer.
…the european ex boyfirend actually did love and played soccer REALLY well…so yes Euros should be exempt from this one.
Can white people who like soccer name any teams that actually play in London?
I love SWPL, and I find myself agreeing with about 90-95% of it. West Ham United for Life! 😛
White people think of soccer as an excellent diversion for white, multi-lingual children. As entertainment for white adults, well, it don’t pass the smell test. F’r instance, the best (y’know, uh, black) athletes don’t bother with it. You’re right, white soccer fans try to tie their adopted teams in with study abroad, and then there’s the whole “being the only white person around,” from what I hear about the DC soccer team…
everyone’s copying out layout.. weird… especially that stuff educated black people like.
crystal palace, QPR, leyton orient, wycombe wanderers, millwall (nobody likes us we don’t care), brentford, fulham, charlton, west ham, spurs, the fuckin’ gooners, the even worse chel$ki scum…
anyway, fake fans of football upset me. thank you for this.
This is just one example of a more general trend: white people in America like to pretend they’re from Europe, in a sense. They don’t go so far as trying to fake accents or birth records, but short of that, they never miss an opportunity to make themselves look more like their European brethren.
Also, what about this whole thing about kissing dogs on the lips? It’s freaking disgusting, and white people love to do it.
So funny; “Note: Europeans are actually into Soccer and are exempt from this entry, however they are free to use it to their advantage when in North America.”
i don’t know a single person that likes or claims to like soccer… worst sport ever. if i wanted to watch people run around for an hour for no reason…. well i don’t ever want to do that.
If anything some of these posts just make me cringe in the same way Barak Obama talks about cringing in his book when people would be like “you must like basketball” or “you can probably sing like Marvin Gaye.”
I’m white, I don’t give a fuck about expensive furniture but would take it if given. I don’t eat expensive sandwiches, but I would if they were given to me. I DO like soccer, I grew up playing it, but we don’t have the majors here like they do in Europe so they have been harder to follow. And I never watched those matches that came on the Spanish channel cause I never understood Spanish (well at least as a kid).
Pierre, Arsenal and Chelsea to name two.
You know why white people think it’s cool to imitate Europeans. CAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING COOL MAN! They have universal health care, they enjoy life, they know 3 languages. Yes, it is a plus to know many languages? And what? Are those bad things?
They are way more liberal than we are. What is not to like?
Sure there are undercurrents of racism there too. They have problems too. They dick-ride American culture too, to an extent.
But hey, they were against the war in Iraq!
Please don’t get back at me by referring to the Nazi’s or some other ignorant shit.
I am a white person, and I’ve noticed something about your blog: it’s not really “Stuff White People Like”. It’s actually “Stuff Upper-Class White Liberal Yuppies Like”. Where are all the items about rednecks? Nothing about “Stuff Trailer-Dwelling Middle School Dropout White People Like”?
Suggestions:
1. The Republican Party
2. Country music
3. NASCAR
4. The Mormons
5. The Methodists
6. Anything on CBS
Sincerely,
An Upper Class White Liberal Yuppie
Yo I just said the same thing in a different topic.
This blog is funny. So is this one…
http://moveitmoveit.wordpress.com
Football is played by real men in shoulder pads and helmets. Futbol is played by lawn fairies in silky short shorts. ‘Nuff said.
So let me get tis straight, this site is created by white hipsters to make fun of other white hipsters?
Maybe it goes along with the bikes or with the making you feel bad about not going outside, but white people also really enjoy having lots of gear for outdoor activities. Hence the guy on the subway with carabiners, nalgene bottles and belay rope hanging off of his mountaineering backpack that goes with the $180 hiking boots that he needs to walk the 1 1/2 blocks from the subway stop to his desk job.
Another thing white people like, using the word “hence.”
FALSE – soccer is boring, hockey FTW
A lot of students who have studied abroad in a soccer-playing country will take on that country’s team as their new favorite team.
My favorite team that i know nothing about is the Sydney Football Club.
“So let me get tis straight, this site is created by white hipsters to make fun of other white hipsters?”
I don’t know if it was created by white hipsters, but white hipsters are definitely who it’s making fun of. Maybe “Stuff White Hipsters Like”.
(American) Football players also slap each others asses and wear tight pants. The quarterback looks like he’s trying to grab the other guy’s crotch at the beginning of each down. So what’s your point?
At the one soccer game I went to in my area (the Chicago Fire by the way), there were more latinos than whites, unless you count the white male “cheerleaders” in the crazy fan section. And the stadium is in a mostly white neighborhood.
I am not white, nor a hipster but it seems as if that is what this has been constructed by.
Being west african, i can say u have not seen a soccer match until you have seen one at my house. Insanity! tO DM6062-wtf? Real men play soccer. Fags play football with pads and helmets and caress each other’s rear. Shiyaaat!
Getting run into for 10 minutes whilst wearing heavy pads and helmets is a pretty disappointing representation of manliness.
“Hockey FTW” lol no self respecting non-Canadian or non-Minnesotan or likes hockey. So which is it?
Where is mayonaise on this list? As well as cleaning, visors, cargo pants, & frizbbe?
YO this site is ridic. But I love it. here is the inverse of this site: making fun of ghetto black people.
Stuff black people like?
-Jamaican beef patties
-ghetto red/quarter water
-chitlins
-low riders
-smoking weed
-commercial black music and one or two white hits a year (remember when they loved that Papa Roach song?)
See my point?
“I’m tired black extremes: we either bitches or queens, either niggaz or kings.”
-Mos Def
You read that right. And dude can’t act for shit. Sorry Mos, get back into that groove had circa ’98, cause that shit was classic. When you did, this white guy will be proud to be a Mos fan.
will the people who get upset please look up the word satire
god, white ppl. so do not get football. i went to soccer game post 9-11 (brazil v. u.s) and I was cheering for brazil – of course. this random white guy accused me of being a traitor. are you kidding me? have you seen the brazilians play? it is fucking poetic. i should have given him a quick course in the life of a football afficianado and knocked his fuckin teeth out… but white ppl. do like to call the police very quickly. no longer can you enage in fisticuffs and part ways like good uncivilized football fans. now you have to worry about lawsuits, because white ppl do like lawsuits also…
I’m a white person and I really think this site is very funny. Good call on the soccer posting. In fact, right now I’m sitting in my “Van der Rohe” chair, sipping wine that I purchased at Whole Foods while listening to language tapes with my children. 🙂
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Does it count if we only watch the World Cup. What about women’s soccer.
Christ, shouldn’t there me a class on this?
What the fuck is “wrong” with jamaican beef patties? because i do get the sense that there is an implication of wrongness in your post s-dot. Don’t fucks with Jamaican. they can be as pretentious as the most hifalutin white folk out there. seen?
C’mon soccer should be out of the list.
nuthin wrong with it, but black people from the hood eat em up. You see how that pissed you off? I was just making a point.
I bet you are right about Jamaicans. That’s my whole point Im trying to make about this site.
It is so true. I studied abroad and now claim to like Arsenal. Man U sucks!
The truth is, I know very little about football…
The players are bangin’, though. Talk about fit.
“Football is played by real men in shoulder pads and helmets. ”
I liked this comment because of the inherent unmanliness within it.
I love this site. Sometimes I just come to read the comments. Try to put people into categories and they will freak out and retaliate, often by declaring that categorizing people is wrong and then by insisting that other people belong in those categories (hipsters, liberals, white people with money, etc.). It gets even better when they try to point out how <> do or don’t do something that an entry is talking about, which only makes the comment that much sweeter. Its like wearing a huge sign that says: I don’t get it.
And my husband totally “plays soccer.” Great post!
Dude, you seem to have lived my life!
“The best method for exploiting this is to ask a white person who their favorite football team is and how they came to be fans. This will allow them to tell you about their time abroad and feel as though they have impressed you with their knowledge.”
SOOO TRUE!
“Once they have finished talking, it is acceptable to ask for favors.”
Love the final touch…
Yup,
I went to England for the day and wanted to attend a “football match” and the only one I could get tickets for was QPR at Loftus Park Road.
This was followed by a half hearted protest.
Now when I meet people from England I always try to be impressive by having them guess my favorite English Football Team.
Yep. The guy I knew loved soccer. I didn’t even know that soccer really existed outside of my kids leagues. I should write the guy that introduced me to all the things white people like and thank him. I must have been living under a rock!! Keep going, I have to know the rest, I am soo deprived!
Somebody actually mentioned this one in an earlier comment – about how flakey people won’t watch NFL football (or the other 3 major sports) – then made an exception for soccer, as that seems to be the team sport of choice for flakes (at least in America like you said).
Years ago, my brother’s Greek-American soccer club played a team fielded by the local Irish restaurant.
The cops were called before half-time.
(This site is going to get around to the Decemberists sooner or later, isn’t it?)
I also recall an old episode of “King of the Hill” which spoofed football culture, parents, etc… vs. soccer culture and parents… pretty funny!!
Decemberists! Yeah man! Don’t forget Radiohead! 🙂
Buying jerseys are cool, too, as well as having another excuse to host a party and get absolutely smashed.
Sometimes I hate this blog. This guy is dead on.
I LOVE your blog. Kanye West has your url posted on his blog and he thinks your SUPER funny sooo i had to check you out.
I went to a white school and its sooo funny that you bring up soccer. I went for the guys…they were all brazilian but i wonder if the white girls were going to say they go to soccer games OMG how lame is that!!!
I think the funniest part of this, are not only the actual entries, but the people that take them seriously 🙂 To all of you, thank you for being anal, and providing yet another reason for non-whites to giggle.
I have a friend (very white) who loves soccer. He doesn’t buy the scarf or the jersey, but sits in our local English pub on weekends and watches the matches by himself. He invites me to watch matches he thinks I’ll enjoy, but for the most part just loves the game and yes, he’s loved it ever since he spent two years in Spain 15 years ago.
However, when the World Cup comes around, he is surrounded by soccer poseurs you describe. Scarves, screaming, etc. It’s awful.
Soccer? Seems like you’re reaching. Still enjoy the visit.
Remember, as far as white people are concerned there are only two soccer teams in the world, Arsenal and Manchester United, and it is required to love one and hate the other. It is important to express this preference to every British person you should ever have the good fortune to come across.
My goodness, this blog is hilarious!!!
both types of football are for tools
Wht ppl love:
‘Sunset Magazine’
To Volunteer
Book Clubs
Sierra Club
To Join
Brn ppl love:
To sit in their garages
Talk really loudly
Leave junk all over the yard
In New Zealand we try to enjoy soccer every four years as a way of throwing off your American yoke and getting back with our colonial roots. Then we remember that rugby has a more firmly entrenched place in the drinking culture, look back on that statement and realise they had us at “drinking culture”, and stagger into the night to commit some spousal abuse.
It’s funny because it’s true.
I’m the inverse of this post, I have a few European clubs that I follow, and would like to go see them in person someday. I’ve never been to Europe (but I did study abroad in…Australia. Ironically, I’m not a fan of any A-League teams, as I devoted my attention to the NRL and AFL down there)
Arsenal and Man U…blech. Newcastle till I die!
America had a serious soccer scare in the ’70s. But thanks to the futility of USA men’s soccer, this should ensure that soccer stays confined to the kiddie masses. “Spread out, spread out. Don’t bunch. Tyler, Tyler, Winston, Griffon, go down on the ground and act hurt, now.?
This is the first time I’ve come across this blog, and I guess that I totally miss the point.
Are you afraid that if you introduce subtly as a concept that the nonwhitepeople who read the blog might not get the humor. After all, it’s already clear that the whitepeople reading the blog would miss all subtly.
You miss so many opportunities to say the same things, but in a truly funny way because you hit every point with a 20 pound sledge hammer.
Rugby fan,
Rugby is another great sport, but the Eagles haven’t done anything to capture the US’s attention. Its a bit hypocritical to knock the men’s soccer team when the rugby team can’t do much more than beat Barbados, isn’t it?
a) All decent folk know to hate the New York Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys, and Manchester United. My Manchester City– yes, Man CITY– scarf shows up the Man Utd poseurs all winter long. They’ve never heard of City.
b) Soccer, for all its faults, is eugenic. “Brad and Amber” get so many miniconcussions from all those “cool” headers that several points are shaved off their effective IQs. (But not their innate ones.) So they no longer qualify for graduate education, and instead have earlier and larger families.
c) Really, really white people go for rugby football, not soccer football. A few go for Gaelic or Aussie.
d) Time outs and playoff berths are for wusses.
#41, no I do not get your point. Making fun of disenfranchised people is *always* different than making fun of some privileged group. For example, lots of people laugh when Leno makes fun of powerful politicians. They would not laugh if he started making fun of welfare moms.
There is always someone making your “point” on every one of these entries….
That is a pretty nice scarf
You forgot to mention a particular love for WOMEN’S soccer and sending their little girls to soccer class. American white folks love to play coed soccer and the girls often surprise people by kicking ass (due to aforementioned classes in childhood). I’ve never known Americans to watch much regular soccer but they will go to their local Italian or Spanish bar to watch the world cup finals, or to their local organic wireless coffeehouse to watch the women’s world cup finals (with one eye on their laptops).
Yes, they like the “idea” of it. But they don’t really understand the concept of it. Americans are good at one sports: Football. Undoubtedly the kings of NFL, no one can beat them (yet). Rough, tough, manly, bulging muscles, raw power, extensive energy, bursting braun, whiners. Wait – WHAT?! Yes, whiners, they’re taking their own lunchboxes to the Beijing olympics coz their mummys are afraid theyd tummy aches…
This is me i’m afraid.I went to several soccer matches whilst visiting friends in London and what got me addicted wasn’t the game but the English soccer fan’s sense of humor. Their chanting was pure comedy gold!
I am a white person, and I’ve noticed something about your blog: it’s not really “Stuff White People Like”. It’s actually “Stuff Upper-Class White Liberal Yuppies who follow weasel- Jewish values Like”.
Where are all the items about Actual Whites? Nothing about “Guys and Girls raising families, and paying the taxes for the rest of America (blacks, liberal underweight Whites, angry Jews, etc.) that have the time to “protest” everything under the sun?
Suggestions:
1. The Republican Party
2. People who have insurance
3. People who donate to charity
4. People who have relatives that are US Vets.
5. People with High IQ’s
6. People with no criminal records!!
Real whites are not weasels, caved-in chests and poor posture types, androgynous, nor dilettantes. They don’t have the time or the stupidity to think non-Whites are “cool” LOL!!!!!
Sincerely,
An Upper Class White Person
For those who really want to read about Whites and the EPL (English Premier League), see this:
The Premiership Goes Stark Staring Bonkers
http://castefootball.us/viewarticle.asp?sportID=8&teamID=0&ID=23273
This is so true. I had a friend who spent a few years in Europe starting at the age of 6 and he loved to prove how European he was by watching soccer, talking about soccer, and rooting for other teams against the US in the World Cup.
“In England, you already have no English coach, no English players and maybe now you will have no clubs playing in England,” he told reporters.
Soccer Waking Up to Europe’s Creeping Caste System
http://castefootball.us/viewarticle.asp?sportID=8&teamID=0&ID=23264
Nothing has made this clearer than the continuing decline of England’s national soccer team at a time when the English club game has become by far the biggest in the world in terms of salaries and revenues. It now generates around $3 billion a year.
In December, the Italian and European club champions AC Milan became the first European club to win the official FIFA Club World Cup held in Tokyo when they beat South American club champions Boca Juniors in the Final 4-2. Among the 14 players they used, 11 were White and 8 of these were Italians.
If it had been a top English Premier League club representing Europe, it would have been a different story. Arsenal would have been unlikely to have a single Englishman, Chelsea perhaps 2 or 3, and even Manchester United, the Whitest and most British of the big teams last season, would have had only 3 or 4 indigenous British players according to recent team selections.
It is for this very reason that Italy is World Cup champion and favorites to win the European Championships, while England will be spending an uneventful summer.
PS Nobody has discussed “politics”. Most European fans (ULtras) are either die-hard Communists/Anarchists and anti-White (i.e. Barcelona, Livorno, Tottenham fans) or Fascist and Pro-White (Real Madrid, Lazio).
Chuck Klosterman had it right when he said of Americans’ distaste for soccer: “We will never care about soccer in this country. And it’s not just because soccer is inherently un-American… It’s mostly because soccer is inherently geared toward Outcast Culture.”
White people pretend to like soccer b/c your average American hates it. And if Joe Sixpack hates it, it must be progressive, edgy, hip, and cool.
I’ve played soccer my whole life. White people have this image of soccer players as metrosexual cultured Europeans who sip wine w/ cheese, eat organic food, and spend their time at art museums. Believe me when I tell you nobody is more womanizing, bigoted, and mysogenistic than soccer players. Only baseball players are bigger scumbags than us.
It’s hillarious, really. White people like it because they think since it’s European it must be full of cultured Indie Film buffs. What on earth are we going to do with these white people. Good grief LOL.
Harry Redknap – that’s all you need to know
whitepeople like soccer because their kids (both boys and girls) can playin youth leagues without having to compete with blacks.
The whitepeople who claim to like soccer also like Lacrosse and field hockey for the same reasons.
i love being white!
First, only in north america it’s called “soccer”. Here in Brazil we call it “futebol” we’re crazy about it and we have the impression that north america simply doesn’t take the sport seriously enough, thinking it’s best suited for little girls and “soccer moms”. The scarf part is really true, aside from having many local teams and strong leagues here, people who study abroad or visit Europe always get back with an Euro team scarf or shirt. They even buy the national team jersey whenever possible, HENCE it’s really not about loving your team or the sport, it’s about looks.
soooooo true. and it’s the “in” thing since we have the gallaxy team.
this site makes be giggle everyday. thank you for making my life brighter hahahha.
one last comment. it’s so funny that these points are all things other ethnicities do to be more “white”. and i am guilty for the same exact things
Most Europeans are very conservative, but say they are more liberal when they are around Americans (Europeans have the obsessive compare and contrast with Americans syndrome).
Another dead-on, laugh-inspiring post !
Some of you folks need to get over it.
Sorry your Baby Boomer Mommas ( read: hippy) brought you up in such ‘ID-politics’ and ‘racially aware’ households, that you can’t even laugh at the truths right in front of you.
I hate soccer… and I’m White
I think soccer is a universal sport.
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http://www.BehindtheApprovalMatrix.com
TOTTENHAM FOREVER.
Thanks for leaving out us poor Europeans. I was feeling miffed for a second there. But seriously, I’ve never met an American over the age of 12 who likes football enough to watch a match. Fine, it’s the same as any other sport, but why the pretence?
I was expecting this post to be how all white children play soccer, whether or not they suck at it. I know my sisters and I all did, and just about everyone I knew growing up.
… And of course I played ‘Ultimate’ in university. 🙂
whitepeople like sports that blacks do not play in the U.S. such as soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, hockey, swimming, baseball, softball, volleyball, and distance running. Whitepeople really prefer sports that is requires coaching and lessons to master such as swimming, hockey, and golf. Hard to learn and requiring lessons means that black and brown people will not be playing them.
Look at the NCAA championship team picture. If the team is as white as a Kennedy Family Reunion, then it is a safe sport for whites.
“lizelby
Hahaha, so damn true. I have so many friends who say they love Manchester United ONLY after visiting London for the semester abroad.”
just like 99% of United’s fan base: never been to Manchester. Shittiest club with the shittiest fans in the world bar none.
Now I was wondering, I was born in München but left when I was very young for the US. Do I still count as a European despite only being born there and living all of 2 months there? I might be the missing link of soccer fandom in the US.
Seriously though, it’s a fantastic game.
#16 Pierre
“Can white people who like soccer name any teams that actually play in London?”
Tottenham Hotspur (who just won the league cup over Chelsea, their first cup in 9 years. They also beat Arsenal in the semi final to get there), Chelsea FC (won on Saturday, currently third place in the EPL), Fulham (Just lost to Man. U on Saturday making Man U 1 point behind Arsenal), Arsenal (who tied Aston Villa in the last second of stopage time to tie the match and keep a 1 point lead above United).
Good enough for you? There are some white people who follow the beautiful game. There are some of us who have never been to England for a semester abroad and still support Man. U too! Though i know exactly the type of folk you speak of!
Anyone follow the Bundesliga or SPL?
Christ. For a short while in college, I drove my Saab w/ a soccer ball in the back window.
Man U is the Yankees of Europe. White people also like Europe.
Enjoy some other funny culture lists.
http://stuffdarkpeoplelike.wordpress.com
Author admits gang-life ‘memoir’ was all fiction
Pretending, from the comfort of their armchairs, that their lives have been oh so hard and edgy.
MUFC, dude!
I fvking hate soccer! I should like it; I LOVE hockey, I enjoy lacrosse but I HATE soccer and basketball!
All pretty much variations on a theme.
Ha! Well moonlightgraham, some people actually support the club based on things like how they play the game and whatnot.
Don’t know. It is hard for Americans to pick a European team. My family is all Irish so I have no roots in England but I started supporting United because they were the first English team I ever saw play when I was about 10 years old. Stuck w/ them ever since.
My wife’s father is an East German refugee from Rostock so of course her whole family supports FC Hansa Rostock.
As the great grandson of Irish immigrants, I also am a big Celtic supporter. Simply because of the history of the team and what the team meant to Irish immigrants in Scotland and really world wide.
You forgot to mention that white Americans get all excited for the World Cup – but nothing else.
I actually don’t claim to know anything about pro soccer but I did see some people wearing one of those cool scarfs and thought – I gotta get one of those!!! Hilarious.
Soccer is a sport for little white girls to play until they’re ready to move on to more traditional white sports, such as field hockey and lacrosse. Teaches them teamwork (boys learn teamwork playing football and baseball) and provides aerobic exercise.
Look at any upper middle class suburb: all the girls play soccer in the elementary grades, but by high school, the kids on the teams are mostly hispanic, or occasionally Europeans. The WASPs are all playing field hockey in the Fall and lacrosse in the Spring. Perhaps squash or fencing in the Winter, and in some places, sailing in the Spring or Fall.
A+++ Excellent, will LOL again.
Bozo,
You should look at the team pictures of the NCAA women’s soccer champions. http://www.aggieathletics.com/specialsites/2007collegecup/
About as white as a klan meeting.
To suggest that white people love soccer is just too broad.
White people love Man U and Brazil and getting their kids involved in soccer.
Although, the occassional white person might suggest Barca as his or her favorite team because of Ronaldinio, or AC Milan due to Kaka, but that’s it. Of course, there is the rarely spotted white person who claims interest in Real Madrid, but that is just due to the Beckham factor. White people seem to love David Beckham.
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Christian:
You need to do one on mixed baby greens.
Sure, you’ve done the whole foods, organic, vegan, no-canned veggies, farmer’s markets thing, but the SALAD is its own phenomenon.
There’s the spring mix, microgreens, spring mix with dandelions… It also gets into the whole ‘bagged versus chop-it-yourself’ thing, which then goes into hand-tearing versus using a knife.
Non-white people can get into a lot of trouble by serving iceburg lettuce. Going to a restaurant that serves an iceburg lettuce-based house salad is a big fat no-no.
You know it’s true.
Yessssss!!!!!!
You won’t believe how many times I’ve had to put up with that blank stare when the conversation goes further than David Beckham. And every time i say Ronaldo, they think I’m still talking about that Brazilian lard lump who is permanently injured.
I’ve been waiting for this entry for a looong time. I think the funnier white people are the ones who have never been to a game but claim fandom to a team (thousands of miles across the pond) and then get all huffy when someone dares insult the sport.
I am confused… Around here (washington, DC) soccer is mostly played by Latinos. Maybe white people only like European soccer and not Mexican soccer.
I don’t give a crap about soccer, but if I had to choose between American football and the European kind, I’d go European because I am that white.
My husband doesn’t get this website at all. I told him that it is because he isn’t completely white. “Yes I am.” He argues. His dad is from India, so he’s mixed. “No, I’m pretty white.” We sometimes argue about it. Dammit, I want to be married to a mixed peson. So much cooler than just a white guy with tan skin and black hair.
the only reason I professed to ever be into soccer is because I think soccer players are cute and have nice butts…it has nothing to do with scarves. In fact now that I actually know there are scarves involved I gotta get me some of them! LOL.
Love ur blog 🙂 Keep up the good work!
iThink the only football that matters is American Football baby!
Brett Favre retires!
http://thunkdifferent.com/2008/03/04/brett-favre-to-retire/
I met John Harkes this weekend! Who wants to touch me?!
Very true – I’m a Real Madrid fan after having lived in Madrid for two years. But I swear I am really into soccer!
The more I read this blog, the whiter I feel.
Except that I’m black. Very black. From Georgia.
Anyhow, I do have a “football” blog if that’s proof of my apparent inner whiteness.
http://thegroundsman.wordpress.com
*sigh* Oh well, guess I’ll just enjoy it!
I always get annoyed at my Filipino boss for just wearing a Man U scarf and claiming fandom but never knowing what’s going on…but he is a Man U fan and they’re all poseurs.
Besides, my Hertha Berlin scarf is way more cool and obscure. I’m just that awesome of a white person.
The more i read this blog, the more it starts to sound like it would be better as “Stuff That Hipsters Like” or “Stuff That Liberals Like.” You’re missing the target on the majority of “White people” on a lot of these. But it’s still funny as hell.
You should consider #81 – Playing old video games
You’ve forgotten that many white people will pick a favorite team to impress or console a potential or current European or Latin lover, often one they’ve met while on study abroad.
Never want to watch another West Ham match, ever.
Love,
Whitey McKhakipants
stuffblackpeoplelike – eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike – keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
Two things:
First, you need to make an addendum that the official soccer team of stupid white people who say they like soccer but really don’t give a rat’s ass is Manchester United. Owned an patronised by stupid Americans. FACT.
Second, you need to change the picture to some yuppie moron waving a Man United scarf.
Up with miscomprehension!
I once stayed in a Hotel that was a part of the Chelsea “football” stadium. It was like white person nirvana! I could then go home and tell all of my firends how wonderful and cultured I was, and to this day when I am visiting with some of my foreign friends I can refer to that experience to channel some authenticity their way. Though in all honesty I don’t get soccer, although I played it in my youth. American football is where it is at
Why do people get pressed and act like their feelings are hurt when they whine that “it’s not really Stuff White People Like. It’s actually Stuff Upper-Class White Liberal Yuppies Like.” And then go on to ask: Where are all the items about rednecks?
So, in other words, it’s ok to make fun of rednecks, but not the beloved white people (a.k.a Yuppies). I guess “White Upper-Class Liberal Yuppies” are too good (or have too much money) to be teased a little.
They’re getting teased about soccer, bottled water, and not owning tv’s . . . lighten the fuck up cry babies.
jeez- we such bad sports culture worship ! don’t forget their silly gods and goddess such a Mia Hamm & Becks – ugh – can you smell the gator-AID on a sports bra ?
This entry is disturbing. Now it makes me feel like even if I’m Asian, I’m a poseur.
But what if playing feels really, really good?
And practicing? and juggling by yourself for hours.
and sprinting and doing plyometrics so that you can get better? loving “Goal! The Dream Begins” and hanging a picture of Julie Fowdy at the office to inspire yourself to eat better & smoke less? Can you be real, even if your demographics are against it? Or if you love MLS best?
Man, this blog makes me feel disgusted with myself, even if I’m not white. It was funny when it was all brie-and-basil foccacia, learning French, and liberal arts degrees, but besides working, all i do & think about is soccer and this entry makes me hate myself for pretending.
http://stuffwhitepeopledontlike.blogspot.com/
@Midtown
Look, if you actually *like* soccer, this might not apply, mate.
This entry points out that the particular segment of white culture being lampooned likes the *idea* of soccer much more than the game itself.
Not your best post!
Soccer is for faggots. That is why it will never take root in the US, cause too many Euro poofters have spoiled it for real athletes.
Soccer players are soft, weak, wimps.
In addition to study abroad and European vacations many white people get their favorite soccer teams from the one or two soccer video games they’ve owned over their lives. This also leads to gross mispronunciation of the players’ names.
The posts make me laugh until tears come to my eyes.
The comments just make me weep.
How the hell does someone who spends a semester abroad in London end up developing an affinity for Man-U? That’s right, I know the proper abbreviation for Manchester United. But last time I checked Manchester was not part of London. You want a good London club to support, try Liverpool. Kidding. Aresenal is where it’s at for London clubs.
mmacraze.wordpress.com
hahahaha! i LOVE manchester united! i swear, this blog scares me b/c it’s so freaking true! hilarious!
Austin Williams:
That made me smile!
But seriously, you read an entry like this, and you wonder, “Do I like soccer because I like it inherently? Or because it’s cool?” And you wonder if, like multi-grain oat bread, green tea and yoga, you learned to like it because it fed into some conceptual thing about who you are. Ugh. Even all this angst is too white.
I’m gonna go whip up some pho, practice my volleys, and call my mom and get screamt at for an hour in Vietnamese. *That* keeps ya real….
Yeah, real football requires 58 pounds of Kevlar body armor and a safety helmet, so you don’t hurt yourself like the other retards on the short-bus.
Come on! I love the blog, but you’re leaving off the one thing white people like the most. Ethnic looking babies.
White people love themselves some brown babies. Bring a brown baby near a white person and see how they react.
“Oh my god! He’s so adorable.”
“Ahhh look at her little brown cheeks.”
“Oh my god Amy, feel his hair.”
“I want one!”
And don’t even get me started about what happens when they see a bi-racial baby.
And a team that consists of 286 people so no one has to play more than 8 minutes in a 5 hour game.
And a coaching staff of 42 in case someone forgets to tie their shoes, or can’t remember how to count to 10.
And a rest period every 8 seconds.
Stop trying to rename the blog. Race is a social construction. And it’s funny (the blog, not race being a social construction.)
I love this blog–it’s hilarious! Keep the entries coming!!
I love this blog–it’s hilarious! I love soccer too, but then I’m white. Keep the entries coming!!
COME ON SPURS!
GO WEST HAM. UNITED!
I guess people from South America should be excluded from this rule too. We love it and are introduced to it since kids. The whole country stops (literaly) when their country teams are playing…
VISCA EL BARÇA!
It’s funny you consider soccer a sport for faggots. You do play a sport for faggots, football, we play rugby. You need balls for that. I particularly love the ones who consider soccer players weak athletes. Have you seen how baseball players look like?! They’re a bunch of fat ass fast food junkies! I’m European and I do like baseball because I try to see the world from other perspectives which don’t belong to my cultural heritage. No offence, that’s something North-Americans just can’t do. Anyway, what the fuck… you wouldn’t be North-Americans then.
Fiorentina. I studied abroad in Florence. What more do you want from me? Go Luca Toni!!
The fact that you called it SOCCER will upset FOOTBALL Hooligans and you can expect swift and merciless retribution. Nevertheless I completely agree about the whole scarf thingamabob.
I applaud your efforts to poke fun at the insidious, ubiquitous, reign of terror that the whole PC mindset has forced upon us.
That being said, I generally prefer to classify myself as being beige because Marlon Brando stayed out of the Armed Forces by cleverly filling in his application to enlist as follows;
Under RACE he put HUMAN and under Color he wrote IT VARIES.
Great site!
@144 Zarani; this is so true. I’ve seen it happen dozens of times. Bring a cute brown baby into the office and two or three white women will have black or Spanish boyfriends the next day.
This blog is just so perfect. Excellent eye for anthropological observation! What a great guide for understanding my grad school classmates. Thanks. It has become my survival kit now that I live in the U.S.
It is shocking how many people do not “get” this site and just start unleashing some insane ignorance instead. I’ve read at least 10 profoundly racist and/or classist crap so far.
This blog is great, don’t ever stop updating it, and if you can, don’t bother reading the comments
Yeah those soccer players aren’t real athletes like those American football players. A bunch of fat guys wearing 40lbs of pads bouncing off each other, stopping the game every 15 seconds so they can be on the sideline sucking oxygen where as those fake athletes who can run for over 90 minutes, take a boot to the face, draw blood and keep playing and can kick a ball more accurately and farther than 98% of those fieldgoal kickers in the NFL are just “Faggots”.
I’m suprised at all the Man-U hate! Kind of expected I guess. When you’re the best team in the world, you get a lot of haters! (Sorry AC Milan… I will never recognize your cheating asses as the best team in the world!).
Amy you do know Luca Toni is playing for Bayern Munich now right?
Soccer is fun, but so are ultimate frisbee, disc golf, and swing dancing! ^^
#155 had such a white response
I guess I don’t quite fit the mould on this one (although 70% of the other posts apply to me, or at least to the man I’d like to become once I finish my grad studies in an arts program and get a lucrative job).
My parents and grandparents were all born in various parts of Europe, but my mom and dad are both more American culturally having grown up along the boarder with the States. Originally my dad got me into football and baseball but on my own accord I got into soccer very seriously around age 11 or 12 as both a fan and a player. I captained my high school team but in my late teens I got a bit too stocky and powerful (read strong and slow) and to continue at the university level so I conceded and took up rugby competitively.
Anyways when I spent a year studying in England I was actually less into soccer than I was previously. Maybe it was because soccer takes the place of all the big four American sports combined in the UK and it was a bit of overkill, or maybe it was because I was now just another fan and not that guy who used to wear weird soccer jerseys in high school. Either way I went out to a few matches and watched the odd match in the pub, but it wasn’t my life like it had been in earlier years.
I never had a favourite club team before going abroad but now I can tell you that i support Blackburn Rovers (try and find another fan) who are having a solid season and of course my local Toronto FC!
Joining an adult soccer league is a great way to meet chicks.
whatever I can’t believe Favre retired 😦
#144 & #156, i agree, it is so true. where i come from though, they are more likely to adopt or borrow one than to make their own.
“i want one.” – good one, Zarani.
I agree with Sara, leave South America out of this, especially Brazilian. And stop calling it soccer, that´s plain ridiculous…
What about Curling?
Awesome! Insightful this time, unlike the last time.
Agghhh. What makes me so sad about this great blog is that it is so true! I studied abroad, like a good ‘footie match’, worked for a company that is a forerunner in modern furniture design, etc.. I am so white it cuts to the very core of me. How can I not be so white? How can I be somewhat authentic? Is there any hope? Do I just need to come to terms with the fact that I am white? Please help!!!
1) Great blog, painful comments section.
2) People need to read the comments on previous posts: you are not original, you are not special, you are not unique. I’m looking at you #26, #27 and again #41.
3) I can’t believe people still don’t “get” this blog.
Football you arse! Football!
Very true, soccer is a truly ‘multicultural’ sport played world wide, especially by the poor, which makes them truly feel more “global”.
much like the world music they become interested in through their favourite fair trade coffee shop or yoga studio.
I love the backlash from white liberal yuppies against this blog. The posts are good but the comment thread backlash is even better.
Continue.
Yeah and all black people like is to shoot people while listening to rap.
Mexican people can only do gratitous work for low wages.
Canadians are all hockey hosers who get drunk off their asses.
Indians…do they even exist anymore?
Please, to say all white Americans know nothing about soccer is as insulting as my statements above.
I was preparing a big sweeping hate speech but then read it didn’t include Europeans!
I live in Seattle and I think this blog’s alternate name could be “Stuff Seattleites Like”.
I think #155 and #175 are tied for the best white response. Good work ppl.
it’s not soccer. it’s football !! 😉 europeans would like to kick your arse for this. 🙂
@166; I’m black and fell for this trick once; girlfriend wanted a “brown” baby; married her and gave her one. Now divorced and new white gal pal wants a “brown” kid. I’m going to tell her to borrow or adopt one. Hey, thanks for the tip.
I only know one white guy who’s into soccer and he comes into the bar and wants to watch a New England Revolution game and he practically gets kicked out of the bar.
Horray! i get the best of two worlds: I loathe footy but i get a free pass in the US if i want to pretend to be hip.
@156,
HILARIOUS!!!
have you noticed copy-cat websites popping up around the net? stuff educated black people like? stuff education latinos like?
notice how they both have to put in the ‘educated’ whereas it is completely assumed for this site? talk about these racial groups starting off from a place of inferiority! their own writers, admittedly members of their respective groups, have to brag about getting an education. that says a lot.
notice how these sites are not funny? they are more serious and tone and lack the barrel of chuckles supplied on the white site.
add this to the list: white people like seeing minorities mimic their likes yet fail to do it as well. this reinforces their superiority in two ways: they are flattered by the attempt and revel in their failure.
Don’t forget rugby for those who studied abroad in new zealand!
clander you might be the reincarnation of Jean Shepard.
A thousand years ago, when the World Cup happened here in the States, a frenzy of “we must be fans now” occured amongst certain circles. I still have that Milano jersey somewhere, and we all screamed for Baggio on Forza Azzuri without really knowing what the hell we were doing. Ah, whitey.
And yes, this is a blog by a white person about white people. HOW CAN THIS STILL BE A QUESTION??? Sheesh.
I’ve played soccer for over 26 years starting at age five, if you asked me my favorite team I’d know because I’ve had an actual passion for the sport. Much like football and hockey – true fans of the game, or any sport for that matter, don’t need to brag, and not many people care about the English leagues. I’m a 5′ 4” woman – I don’t want to play football with pads and a helmet against 300lb guys who retire with permanent concussions and no pension…. As far as the English leagues go, not every player is married to a Spice Girl or wants to play for Liverpool or Manchester United.
Great blog. True, too.
That said… Tottenham Hotspur are the only club that matters. Italian football is crap, regardless of what some loser who supports Calcio might say. And Wycombe Wanderers are not a London team.
Skinny hipster elitists in the US claim to love soccer because it makes them seem more “cultured” or something. The irony, of course, is that over here in the UK, a very large percentage of football fans are loud, obnoxious, drunk imbeciles. And don’t even get me started on the racism… especially prevalent in the Italian and Spanish leagues.
How about we settle this over a friendly match of freestyle walking?
I choose soccer teams according to which one has the coolest scarf.
Too funny… Most of the people I know who say they like soccer will always speak of Manchester United or David Beckham. I have yet to run into someone who can tell me of the last ever-so fabulous play that he made. (Play? is that right?)
One of my friends from Argentina was watching the Ohio State vs. Michigan game and was laughing as the camera focused in on two Michigan fans in a sea of Ohio State fans. He said that if that was a futbol/soccer game, those people would be dead (or at least very badly bruised!)
Passion for soccer in the US is definitely not the same as it is in other countries.
Again… great observation! Keep writing!
RE: AMY #154
hate to break to to you, but Luca Toni is now tearing up the Bundesliga
in other words, he’s playing in Germany.
RE: ADAM #188
If Italian football is crap then why does England and Ireland think the way to make their national teams improve is to bring on Italian managers? Italians are tactially waaaaay smarter than anybody else in Europe and you can’t argue with the results they get.
signed,
some loser who supports calcio.
Why do so many people here assume you have to watch a sport on Tv to be really ‘into it’ or know all the professional teams?….if you’re so into it, doesn’t it make much more sense to just go and play already?
I know I’m missing something. Please explain it to me?
jim I already pointed out to amy that Luca Toni is playing for Bayern Munich. Though…since Beckham never played for Bayern Munich I don’t think most here ever heard of the team haha!
Oh people, get a grip! Don’t even pretend that this is racist! You know how long black and brown and yellow people have been stereotyped? Jesus Christ (and he was brown, FYI) calm down and quit getting offended and saying this is ‘racist’. It’s just funny. Some of the comments I find on these posts are priceless (some of the ones from Multilingual Children were amazing), but others just make me sad at the world and the white people getting offended. (#81 White people like acting offended?)
It’s a joke
It’s funny
and half the time…it’s true…
No argument about the abilities of Italian managers…. although I’d say that we’ve yet to see anything from Capello, and I’m not even sure Trapattoni has shown up for his first day of work yet.
Serie A is boring. Ligue 1 and La Liga are much more interesting to watch, as far as European leagues go. The Premier League is probably the best league in the world (or, more accurately, most exciting to watch), and no one watches Irish football.
Fake footie fans are better then non footie fans.
But I’d rather talk footie and educate a wank yank or two, then chat about Barry Bonds and your other made for TV sports.
Here’s to HGH, tight shorts and endless supply of big chinned wide grinned yanks talking shite about how many chickens some fat bloke from alabama can eat.
Wankers!
I love this. I would love to see a chart of sales of footballs and apparel to see the spike at World Cup/Euro times in North America. And I would also like to see all the disappointed faces when they find out 2 years from now that DB will not be playing for England.
By the way, Europeans aren’t “white people” they are Europeans!
lio messi is on HGH
Football is played by real men in shoulder pads and helmets.
Ha ha ha ha.
Don’t forget the tight-fitting pants and codpieces.
Try to put people into categories and they will freak out and retaliate, often by declaring that categorizing people is wrong and then by insisting that other people belong in those categories (hipsters, liberals, white people with money, etc.). It gets even better when they try to point out how do or don’t do something that an entry is talking about, which only makes the comment that much sweeter. Its like wearing a huge sign that says: I don’t get it.
You’re kind of a stupid person, aren’t you?
sorry I cannot keep chiming in comments here, but I’m leaving work early now to go watch football.
the Champions League is 1,320x more interesting than any other sports competition in the world.
If the author of this blog were so hip he or she would know that it was called a football club, not a team. hehe. Just a technicality. I will admit that I (whitey) got very hung up on soccer during the world cup. I do love the game for its simplicity, but thats what I love about baseball too.
Well in Ireland Gaelic Football (a very different and a bit odd sport)i s the largest spectator sport. The Irish Ericom (or whatever it is) league is pretty poor. I would say that Celtic FC is the real jewel of Irish people world wide really.
I wonder what Capello will do w/ England though I have to say that I’m not impressed w/ hiring internationals to coach the national team. In league play, to me it doesn’t matter. For the national team though, I think it should be kept to citizens of that country. Kind of defeats the point of a national team (show off your country’s best) to higher outside guns, even if it is in management.
Although…it would have been cool if we could have gotten Klinsmann to coach the US National team.
You know, your ironically raised eyebrow will stay that way if you don’t lower it every once in a while. This isn’t the worst blog I’ve ever seen (there have been some clunkers) and some of the commentary is pretty funny. I’d just like to point out (and if someone already has, I apologize) that this site is racist. Even if the creators are white (which they may be). Just so you know. Fine. I’m coming on too strong. In fairness, I wouldn’t be so unenthusiastic if some of the jokes were funny.
Oh boy! Disagreements breed cred! You’ve offended someone! That means you must be on to something! That rule has exceptions. Anyway, catch yall later.
Yeah…I’m there too—the ethnic slur thing bothers me too, but hey it’s whoever’s blog. On to better things:
As a testament to the great game let’s do a little hopefully blinking, rather than the ‘deer in the headlights’ staring.
Why is Soccer referred to ‘soccer’ only in the USA? (Notify me immediately if anyone gets this correct!)
Easy one for confidence building: What are the lines called that mark and outline the field?
We all know that soccer has boundary lines; yet, when the ball traverses either onto the field or off of the field, what is this referred to in soccer?
Ever seen the NFL Official Referee Handbook? Small version of the telephone book of NYC; how long, how big, or how many rules are there in soccer?
And what are they called?
And finally for the greatest ‘soccer’ fans alive—who do you believe was the best ever football, fotbol, fusbol team in history? CHEERS MATES!
Oh yeah…the right answer for question one; please post at http://onemorecup.wordpress.com
I love to play soccer, but could give fuck-all about the professional teams.
My problem is that when I watch a sport I want to play, I end up jonesing so hard to actually play that I don’t enjoy the event.
I have the same trouble with strippers. Who wants to just sit there and watch, anyway?
Interview of clander, the writer of Stuff white people like:
Part1:
http://theassimilatednegro.blogspot.com/2008/02/stuff-white-people-like-interview-part.html
Part2:
http://theassimilatednegro.blogspot.com/2008/02/stuff-white-people-like-interview-part_25.html
Why didn’t my name link?
http://t4toby.wordpress.com
wait a second – I can understand saying that Europeans aren’t all white. But my ancestors were European, and white. Obviously, I’m not European. And, from what I have gathered here and elsewhere, it’s laughable for a White Person to refer to their European ancestry or enjoy European culture. Doesn’t it follow then that not all Africans are white and that US Black folks are kind of laughable when they refer to themselves as African or adopt African culture?
Its not, right? So why should I give a flying fuck about any of this? Heh, answered my own question. I shouldn’t.
Hi
As I cannot claim to have read the absolute deluge of comments to this post I apologize if this sentiment has been expressed before but:
I happen to be a white American living on the east coast (used to live in Boston, now living in DC, grew up in farmland Pennsylvania) who actually does love soccer and will engage in discussions about it with anyone willing to listen. I find that a lot of people I know don’t follow it as closely as I do (which is f-ing difficult given the complete ignore operation put on by the American media even as sports crazed as they are), but know a little. I’ve never been to Europe or South America and only claim my favorite over-seas teams from actual viewing experience…I’m a huge Arsenal fan and follow every score either through their website or soccernet.com. I became an Arsenal fan after following every game of their 2002 Champions League campaign which they lost to Barcelona. They played some amazing games during that run and I was ecstatic to find a team that valued the beauty and emphasized the passing game over strict utilitarian soccer. I feel no need to apologize for the fact that I wasn’t fortunate enough to grow up in a soccer crazed country, although I wish I had. I also make no apologies for the fact that I try to follow it for enjoyment and love of the game and may not know quite as much as your average South American or European…it’s a matter of circumsttance not choice. PS – I hate Manchester United with a passion…I also would prefer to follow the Spanish La Liga, but coverage is so difficult to find here that it just doesn’t make sense…
I feel your argument carries some weight and I’m sure it’s annoying to “real” soccer fans, but the generalization still feels like a personal attack on me and the tons of people who actually do play and love the game (as well as follow it) that I know of here in non-Euro white-person land. Hey, I want the game to catch on here as bad as anyone, and I hate the bashers and half-hearted fans too, but you gotta start somewhere…right?
I live in Edinburgh (I am studying abroad) near a soccer stadium. I do not plan on ever going to a game but I have rubbed the fact that i am close to this sophisticated European thing in my white friends’ faces.
I say you add: Extreme Sports, Androgenous last-name first-names (especially if they end in -er), wedding registries, Zach Braff, Comedy that consists entirely of pop-culture references, coffee, ethnic comedy we don’t understand, watching people eat gross foods, boats, apple computers, and blogs.
What about fried chicken? Me and all my cracker freinds love fried chicken.
Come on. That’s not really a fair one. Many white people really did grow up playing soccer and are actually fans of the sport. I won’t say they’re truly support some European club, but they do like the sport in general. I know I love the sport but could two $#!ts about Euro clubs. I only watch when world cup comes around. But I play every week. Kind of hard being the only black guy on the field with a bunch of Italians. Come to think of it, most of the people I play with are foreigners. Maybe white’s really don’t like the sport. But I swore I played with some in high school. I know they really liked the sport. I know it! I’m not crazy!!
god, you people are idiots.
Brits, resolutely monoglot the rest of the time, love to call European football leagues by their native names, e.g., “La Liga”, “Serie A”, or the (der, die, das?) “Bundesliga”. (No-one cares about the French one.) They pretend to enjoy watching European matches, but inside they are crying in boredom.
I am a bit perplexed about this topic. I grew up in a school that was about 90% white, and soccer (for both males and females) was very popular.
Professional soccer does not get the same coverage or fan devotion as other professional sports. But, white people play this sport often in the USA.
Hmmm.
totally true. every kid that goes abroad or visits south america comes back and thinks they are obligated to bring soccer to america. its especially nauseating when they buy a ball and try to get you to engage in “dribbling” with them. i never cared about soccer before, why should i care about it because you went on some silly trip?
If you’re taking suggestions, why nothing yet about Dennis Kucinich?! White folks go crazy for him, even if he’s a shrimpy little creep who does things like read a poem about flowers in the middle of a presidential debate. Also, the whole father-son Starbucks book club duo about Meth Addition (see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/04/DD87V525B.DTL) is classic writing a memoir about doing something supposedly unwhite and shady (see also the recent spate of “My Life as a Stripper. Except that I’m actually a writer and smart!” memoirs).
Andy and Jim:
I did NOT know that, so thanks for the update. I guess I’m just proving this post to be even more true than expected!
And really, I only follow the game at World Cup time.
My redeeming quality: I did play soccer/futbol/football/WHATEVER all the way up through high school and it’s really the only sport that I can stand to watch… or play for more than 5 minutes.
Woops! That comment above is from me… I was logged into my secret WP account… guess the cats out of the bag now.
Eh, this one is kinda weak. In my experience, far more white people who claim to like soccer actually DO follow very closely. Where’s the post mocking us??
You could have talked about how we constantly correct people when talking about the sport: “goalKEEPER, not goaltender” and “offside, SINGULAR, not offsideS.” And you could talk about how we constantly belittle our friends about how most americans are stupid and backwards for not understanding the beautiful game. All in the quest to make us seem more sophisticated and culturally superior.
The few white people who only like the idea of soccer don’t deserve their own # on the list.
Why wouldn’t you like “soccer”?! It’s ten, wait one hundred times better, than shitty sports we see on tv here. who really cares about d-bags in pads slamming into each other and attempting to outrun someone carrying a ball. oohhhh you can hold on to a ball in your arms (sometimes)?! While running?!!!?!!! Exciting. Americans are just envious of the skill of soccer players elsewhere in the world (and the massive amounts of ass they pull). 🙂
So, learn how to dribble a ball with your feet and then maybe we’ll talk.
Soccer, as followed by white *Americans* who claim it’s something they like, tends to have a snob/outsider appeal. So I think there’s some confusion here (in the comments) about white *people* (of which most are Europeans/Russians/et al) and white *Americans*.
I think it’s a good thing that we Americans have four major sports to distribute our emotions over. That’s why we never have riots on a par with soccer, where in most countries it is their only major sport, mostly because it’s cheap to play — baseball, football, basketball, and hockey are not cheap, even on an amateur level.
#207 “onemorecup”: “Why is Soccer referred to ’soccer’ only in the USA? (Notify me immediately if anyone gets this correct!)”
Oh, really? So what do they call it in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and Pakistan, where it’s even less popular than in the States?
Re: #227 Actually, what DO they call the sport in South Africa? Black “football” refers to soccer, white “football” to rugby.
Damn i wish my travellingtroll blog here was as cool and as sad as this.. its all true, but you lack combinations! What about a white person, at a friends in mexico, going to a soccer game, being the only white person around for miles? etc.
Okay. This is about upper/middle class college kids and/or yuppies. Obviously the person involved is ignoring that most white people don’t study abroad — look at the percentage of the population in the US that has actually gone to college… 27%. By stating things in simple terms to make them sound ridiculous you don’t accomplish much. Try doing this with your blog.
This is starting to get scary. I proudly exhibit a Benfica ‘scarf’ in my brightly colored living room near my Ikea chair. Yes, I got it while at a ‘match’ when I was traveling in Portugal smugly satisfied that I was the only American there.
For years, white people have been saying saying that soccer – er – football is a ‘world sport’ and that North Americans don’t like it b/c they ‘we’ don’t understand it, and then go into some bit about US political hegemony, etc. Following my time at the Benfica match, I’ve determined that the reason North Americans don’t like futbol is because it sucks! It’s tres borrrring. Nothing happens. Being at the game w/all the atmosphere was a feast for the senses, but the game itself is a wicked snoozer. Real football, hockey, even baseball are far superior sports.
Also to be noted, white people in Europe do NOT care for soccer; it’s considered working class and gauche.
I was watching the Fulham v West Ham Premier League game a couple of weeks ago and am pretty sure there were at least three (possibly four) Americans in the teams (Jonathan Spector for West Ham + nameless Fulham players). One American got substituted for another at one point. Can’t remember their names (they were Fulham players).
What’s my point? They were all white – (so that ticks the box for this blog), all American (another tick) and all probably earning in excess of $20,000 a week for playing ‘soccer’ (no tick but makes you think – What could America do if they took ‘soccer’ seriously?
Chris Rock / Eddy Murphy make jokes about black people. They are funny and I laugh. This website isn’t any different. Some people are getting very upset about nothing.
Whenever the world cup comes on, look out. Suddenly every fucking white person is a huge soccer fan. This post is very true.
The author is an elitist. He or she probably thinks it is lowbrow to watch Major League Soccer and call yourself a soccer fan.
idea for future entry: air-instrumentation (i.e. air guitar, air drums)
What about the few of us that actually play football?
And what about white people that follow South American teams? Is that higher on the ladder than watching Man U? I admit that I started following Pumas after spending some time in Mexico… “Como no te voy a querer, como no te voy a querer, si mi corazon azul es y mi piel dorado siempre te querre…” (anyone?)
Here’s a suggestion for a new entry: “Inventing New Sports”
The reason the English-speaking diaspora won’t call English football “soccer” is because, like (white) English-speaking people anywhere they’re too busy inventing sports to play old ones. They think, “‘Football’? What a great name for a sport– let’s invent one!” “Soccer”, BTW, is short for “association”, as in “Football Association”– i.e. England’s Football Association. The term is an English invention– to distinguish it from other “footballs”, like rugby.
The reason the rest of the world plays soccer is because they don’t have the imagination to invent their own sports, or at least to fine-tune them to the efficiency of English rules. Even Italians don’t play real “calcio”, except at annual village and neighborhood festivals. They play English football and call it “calcio”.
My buddy’s ons playing soccer. My neighbor’s kid is. I used to play it at school and , later with coowoerkers, but had been banned for “cutting off”.
I wish I played it again.
beyonddt @ http://beyonddoubtfulreasons.wordpress.com
This has probably been mentioned before, but here goes again.
Football, which goes as far back as the Chinese game of cuju, is football. America is the only nation in the world that calls it soccer.
This is why countries like Estonia beat you in the world cup. (A legitimate world cup. The world includes more nations than Canada and the USA, despite what your NFL claims).
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to have a sit down and a cup of tea, and enjoy it with a sense of smug satisfaction.
“Oh, really? So what do they call it in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and Pakistan, where it’s even less popular than in the States?”
They call it football. If they have a local version of football they prefix it with their Country’s name, e.g. Australian (Rules) Football.
Remember, the beautiful games global competition is called “the world cup” by pretty much everyone in the world. Lesser sports have to prefix world competitions with the the name of the sport.
“Soccer is a sport that European women play while their husbands cook dinner” – Hank Hill
Here is the way I see it.
The person who writes this blog is an angry asian, probably from hacienda heights, industry or arcadia in la.
This guy is so mad because he has been raised to think that as an asian male he is superior to everyone else.
In the real world, especially LA, college educated asians are pretty common, and nothing special.
Stop feeling angry because your asian parents screwed you up.
Do you think you are the first cranky asian with screwed up parents? Get in line and have a hanky.
Also, your non-college educated girlfriend that lives with her multi-generational family, and has fake knock-off purses, an obsession with skin-care and make-up, shopping as a career, and a strong aversion towards reality, working, and generally growing up needs to get in line and have a hanky too. While you are at it, you can tell your little asian girlfriend that getting fake boobs looks dumb on women that slender, they look bolted on, and you can tell her that her hair is naturally brown, she needs to stop screwing with it. The princess routine only works when you are under 25 and cute, but lets face it, the chicks not marriage material. If she had anything going for her you would have married her years ago and given your mother those grandchildren she so secretly desires, since of course, you are precious asian boy.
Face it, cultural secularity is what makes you so angry. Its not your fault. Its your parents fault for making you grow up in an asian neighborhood. Its not like they couldn’t move to a better part of orange county. You could have been the special smart asian guy in your highschool then. You may have got to sleep with white girls with blonde hair. You could have traded video game cheat codes or super exclusive asian only video games. You may have gotten to play soccer or chess or ran around with other richer asian kids.
So, here is my advice to you, stuff white people like, get over it. You think white people don’t know what you are going through. You aren’t white, you never will be, and you need to stop hating being asian. Also, dump your dingy but pretty girlfriend by stopping having submissive sex on her hello kitty sheets. Be happy, find a girl as smart as you, and if she happens to not be asian, so what, move on.
On the other hand, angry asian guys are the new serial killers hey hey college shootings.
as i read this, i am watching soccer on television. how ironic.
Sorry – Not into soccer. so that’s like, 77/80 so far.
Coincidental – not ironic
I was going to flame your post endlessly with a rant from hell until l i read the note at the end. But I suggest you add to that note that this only applies to white people in the U.S. If you go to any country in south or central america, africa, the caribbean or asia. You would notice that futbol (or soccer for you) is the most popular sport, and that everyone likes it. Because right now you seem.. well a bit ignorant…
#11 ME TOO. Falling in love with Manchester United after visiting London….huh? Makes me sick.
As someone who lived in England from the age of 6 months to 21 years, I am obsessed with football. Oh, how I miss it. I’m allowed to like it though, I’m technically “European” (ugh, hate that phrase – English!)
It annoys me to no end when people here talk about soccer and European teams as though they are the fount of all knowledge. Just, no.
This is the fastest growing blog ever!
sebaunited…um, YES if you are American and you went to a Brazil vs USA match and cheered for Brazil then you ARE a traitor. REAL football fans don’t give a crap how amazing the other team is, they cheer for their country or team to the death (literally, to the death in some places). Brazil does play amazing football, and it is good to realize that and appreciate it – but if you are not from Brazil, you shouldn’t support Brazil unless they are playing another neutral team.
Wow, I guess I was really pretending to like soccer when I traveled to Germany for the World Cup. Or became a season ticket holder to my local MLS team. Or travel to England to see my favorite European team play. Or spending over $3000 in following my MLS team last year.
Brilliant, just brilliant. I find it highly entertaining to see the defensive posts. Really, people, if a post doesn’t apply to you, just smile and laugh inside at the fact that you know who is targeted. If you find it offensive, as you are the target, haw haw! Poor white person!
There are two reasons I watch soccer & tennis. Because the guys are HOT!!! Esp. the Italians!!!! And yeah–I can watch it on the Spanish channel…who cares what they’re saying?! It’s the shorts man…the shorts;););)
126 Elizabeth Stolfi
“The more i read this blog, the more it starts to sound like it would be better as “Stuff That Hipsters Like” or “Stuff That Liberals Like.” You’re missing the target on the majority of “White people” on a lot of these.”
True, but since they’re so into identity politics / racial essentialism and using ideological code / crypto phrases (say ‘wanting ID to vote’ = racist attempt to disenfranchise people), it’s another level of irony to just tar them with the ‘white’ brush… it’s both identity politics and code / crypto speak (re: for white liberals)… then watch sit back and watch the meltdowns. 🙂
Yeah #251 Mike, I agree with you. I must have been kidding myself to think I was a soccer fan. Going out, buying a jersey for my team with money I saved up from working must have been something I did on a whim. As is the trip I’m taking to watch the Wizards play Handball United later this month. I mean, wow! Soccer? What the hell is that? [/sarcasm]
“The author is an elitist. He or she probably thinks it is lowbrow to watch Major League Soccer and call yourself a soccer fan.”
Oh, so I’m not allowed to cheer for my local team? I’m sorry, I didn’t know that you set the universal rules for being a *REAL* soccer fan. My bad. [/major sarcasm]
Don’t assume things like this. It makes asses out of you and me.
I finally have to disagree: Every good white person hates soccer! (unless they are whimpy white people). White people are a football lot.
Here is a great link if you are +35 years and like to PLAY soccer http://www.emg2008.com
it is NOT a nonsense cup! but fun!
I like the idea of soccer because it puts me in touch with my inner minority, makes me feel brown all over.
Soccer is kind of my life. Been playing since I was 4. Played in high school, played in two colleges, played overseas a bit. Travel 3 hrs to Columbus MLS games all the time.
And I’m white. And I hate American football. 🙂
I found out about this blog while at a football pub after work on a wednesday night watching a taped matched from earlyer that day! While in colledge I was going off to get drunk some where, something I did very offten, and while waiting for the tain I heard a bunch of fellow collegde students chant a “united” song, which united I am still unsure of as they never mentioned a city, I just figured that they had just seen Green Street Hooligans and were being, well white kids. I got on the train got to my stop and to my dismay they got off at the same stop and started singing again. I got really pissed of at them, I am white and I love football I have no shame of saying it, which is why this post made me laugh, also I always want more footie scarves. So while wearing an abscure american scarf (Charleston Battery!) sang back a responce chant. The looked at me dumbfounded and waited till I was out of eye site to start singing again. As with most things that white people like, we all seem to want to be noticed for liking it even if we do not care about it at all. I think it has something to do with white guilt. Allez L’OM!
Hey Ryan, Columbus is for punching!
I’m a white American who now permanently resides in France. I hate soccer. It sucks.
http://www.wnbc.com/news/15481356/detail.html?rss=ny&psp=news
this is what white people do
I hate soccer and would never pretend to like it and I am white.
yes ! please do rednecks next ?
what about white people who actually played soccer growing up? are we allowed to appreciate the world cup w/o posing?
The most ignorant post that I have seen in a long while.
What a weak generalization. You’re only trying to insult the game, and I didn’t see any examples from your experiences.
No worries. I guess I’ll just go on being the ONLY white football fan in the States.
What a racist post.
Hey Lizelby,
You might be mixed up there. Manchester United is in Manchester, as the name might suggest. Not London. So likely those “wacky” white people you know who loved Man U after their trip to London are just idiots.
I used to wear Sambas until I was called out by a Soccer Mom, which led to a blank stare on my face revealing that “No, I’ve never played a game of soccer, I just like the shoes.” It was a very white moment indeed.
(white ppl like to use the word “indeed”.)
If I hadn’t read this I would never have believed it.
Judging by the stupidity of your post I won’t even waste my breath. You’re lost and really insignificant.
Good luck in life. You’ll need it.
Sadly, a grain of truth to this one. As a European-born white soccer writer in the U.S., most of the conversations I have about soccer with white people are simply excuses for them to blab about how much their little brats like AYSO or playing soccer at school.
Still, people of any color should check out the Web link here and if you’re from LA it’s virtually mandatory.
Hey Ryan, you have a girlfriend?
I just keep thinking of the Simpsons soccer episode: “Half back passes to the fullback, fullback passes to midfield, midfield passes to defense.”..shot of Homer and others nodding off.
Only in soccer do they talk about all the “near-scoring attempts.” I get hooked every four years and try to watch World Cup but I come away thinking, “You had for years to prepare for the biggest match of your lives and this is all you can muster?”
It goes to show you that writing a blanket article while having little to no knowledge of the subject matter will garner you massive responses. I’m sure the author is extremely proud that a few paragraphs of drivel have garnered some fresh eyes. Here’s to wishing your site is quickly overrun by endless fury.
Very true. I went to south america for 6 months and came back with 2 jerseys, and jerseys for my family as well.
Though I don’t follow soccer..i just like to pretend im cultured.
boringgggg. i hate most ppl, cause they all talk out of their ass to sound like they have a clue. soccer is the only sport i never gave a shit about. infact ill watch curling over soccer hahaha curl bitch curl/
This is so funny, and so embarrasing how spot on it is. I’m a white girl who loves modern furniture, speaks a little German but wishes she was fluent (so I could get that job at the UN of course) and likes soccer but admits I only know what my British husband has taught me about it. I just bought a FIFA “England” jacket the other day too. Heavy sigh….
And BTW, any white girl who tells you she loves David Beckham because he’s so amazing at set pieces is lying! And they don’t really care about the LA Galaxy either, they’re ony watching for the eye candy.
I’m an upper middle class white person who wears scarves and pretends to support Chelsea FC after I lived a year in Kensington. Blow me.
If you posted what Black people like you would be called a racist. Racisim comes from all colors or cultures. Your site is very offensive and I think you should watch your step from now on.
Not funny: Shut the fuck up.
Other stuff white folks like:
– streaking
– skinny-dipping
If you are being sarcastic, good job.
If you are serious then great job on completely misreading the game and the fans here. You don’t know anything about the US soccer fanbase because you aren’t a part of it I’m sure, and this article is probably based on about a dozen of your own “personal” accounts that feed into your incredibly ignorant generalizations. I’m sorry, but this is piss poor writing.
Mostly americans comment here so here we go. You are the dumbest people on the planet. soccer as you call it is a FOOTBALL to the rest of the world. and your stupid american foot/baseball is a CRAP that nobody likes except stupid lazy fat asses. foot/baseball is an oversized commercial for americans to brainwash them to buy more chinese crap.
This site is awesome. Awesomely true!
Dear lizelby,
you said:
“Hahaha, so damn true. I have so many friends who say they love Manchester United ONLY after visiting London for the semester abroad.”
You are a dumb cunt, Manchester United is not a London based team. THEY ARE FROM MANCHESTER!!!
If you said maybe Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham, Fulham, Charlton, Milwall, and many more. your comment would have made some sense, but you are the manifestation of a moronic American twat that knows nothing of the world.
#284
now thats funny 🙂
AmericanfootballSUCKS: You raise a compelling point, but at least our teeth are statistically straighter than those in your country. And if you’re from Newcastle or Glasgow or something, at least we’re intelligible to ourselves and to the rest of the world when we speak.
hilarious! having played soccer for almost ten years I do claim to love the sport, but i’ll never say i know anything about leagues outside what i play – it’s a sport i’d rather play than watch!
Stop all this feuding or go settle it out on the “pitch” over Capris Sun and orange slices….
This one seems a little weak.
White people love silence. They are extremely noise-sensitive. It’s almost like they’re collectively on the autistic spectrum.
haha. its true. soccer sucks so much ass.
…but i think if a white person actually goes so far as to JOIN a soccer league, chances are they might actually like soccer legit…or their taking their charade really really seriously
well its a cute idea, this site. unfortunately there is an extremely practical reason for Americans to have a dabbling interest in soccer. When you become a parent, you will find that soccer is far and away the best team sport for children ages 5-12. The amount of exercise, the simplicity of the rules, the basic skills are easier to introduce and master, the small chance for injury…and its cheap too.
As kids get older tho they tend to get more into the sports they see played professionally here.
Suggestions:
-saying they don’t like fast food
-salads
-bragging about internships
-dressing cats in clothes
-being punk/goth as teens
“The more i read this blog, the more it starts to sound like it would be better as “Stuff That Hipsters Like” or “Stuff That Liberals Like.” You’re missing the target on the majority of “White people” on a lot of these.”
With responses like this one, and many others to the extent It appears you’ve developed a magnet blog for middle America to lap up your never ending flow of piss.
Anyone who uses the term “liberals” to describe one who wants to fit in… Is an uneducated doof.
“Note: Europeans are…exempt from this entry”
That pretty much describes this entire blog.
This is such crap. I think someone’s jealous…
All the talk about how white Americans like sports which black folk don’t like is really ironic.
Soccer happens to be THE most popular sport on the continent of Africa. Guess where the next World Cup is going to be held?
So much for many of our proud “African-Americans” we’ve got Stateside who adopt more from redneck southern culture than they do from their own heritage.
-Sorry some of us were raised on it,around it ,enjoy the sport extensively wear scarves proudly and will soon have family playing overseas…
American “Football” is a fucking farce lets see those fat bastards go 90 minutes.
MLS will have its day(eventually)
Fuck hipsters wearing teams jerseys and scarves for the fit
Hoops lost to Barcelona today so fuck Man U whilst im at it
i love soccer……………………………
I’m a white guy who has played soccer since just after I could walk. There is nothing more fun than playing against euros or latins who assume they are better than me because of their culture. The look of frustration and embarassment that burns in their eyes after they just got “skinned” by the white yank is nothing less than priceless.
Can I please borrow some other white chick’s American soccer-pretending fool of a consort? Because being married to a tea-stained fan of the Beautiful Game is just NO FUN AT ALL. He’s not even English or anything. He’s a Yank, just like most of you here. I have no idea where he got his passion for it.
It wasn’t that long ago the guy came home and detoxed after a couple of weeks World-Cupping it in Germany, and now here we go again: with that Euro 2008 thing right around the corner this summer. One of my guy’s insane friends is planning some kind of tiki-torch Euro 2008 luau business, with the plasma screen outside and the stuff, for whatever the first game is in June.
Doesn’t matter, really; it’ll be this year’s version of THE MOST BORING PARTY EVER. Final score: 2 – 1! Winner: Albania! Stop the freaking presses!
Soccer fans on this board, please consider this: without soccer (or “football”), Victoria Beckham would still just be Posh Spice — and her fame would have died a nice natural death a decade ago. Christian Ronaldo’s sex life would be his own damn business. You’d still have a lot of brain cells you’ve since lost to whatever 20 – 50 times you headed the ball, or got in some horrible pub argument over whether your team belongs in the Champions League, or whatever.
Does soccer make the world a better place? Really? This widow’s said her piece. Thanks for listening …
“europeans are exempt from this rule, however when in america they can use it to their advantage”
bahahahahaha
Really 294? You win for whitest response….You will no doubt raise excellent white children and apologists.
I love it how whenever the subject of footy is brought up anywhere, by anyone, in Europe or stateside, the tribalism kicks in and folk start going at each other’s teams and calling each other twats.
The other thing that will always pop up is that ManU fans are never ever from Manchester. Invariably, this will be brought up by other Americans who profess their hatred of the Premiership “big four” and their support of small teams they’ve never seen play from cities they’ve never been to. Picking an obscure team just because the Prem big four are mainstream now, and all because of the need to ensure everyone knows how counter-cultural you are – now that’s definitely something White People Like!
Oh, and then someone will invariably foam at the mouth about Americans calling the Prem “EPL,” because that’s really the most important thing, right there. Just goes to show that football is all about anger and a sense of superiority coupled with a constant sense of despair over one’s team past, current, and future failings (why hello there Newcastle!). So it really seems to me that many Americans do get what footy is all about!
football/soccer is a bunch of people chasing a ball…
on the other hand:
american football is a bunch of people chasing and hitting the person carrying the ball
baseball is a bunch of people hitting and chasing and throwing a ball
basketball is a bunch of people running around with and throwing a ball
hockey is a bunch of people chasing a puck
i have no f’ing idea what cricket and rugby are about
Toronto FC…
Two consecutive sold-out seasons…
Generally, the more obscure the club, the better…however, the following also holds true:
Italian surname/background: Juventus jersey/AC Milan
German surname/background: Bayern Munich jersey
Scottish surname/background: Celtic jersey
English surname/background: Arsenal/Chelsea/United
No other teams exist.
This blog gets exponentially more ignorant every time I read it.
sports suck.
funny too.
http://stuffsouthernerslike.wordpress.com/
the comments are funnier than the blog. congratulations. zomg! I’m white! hate me! 🙂
why is everyone freaking out? if it’s so offensive, don’t read it.
good job with the posts, though the modern furniture one was a little lame. but that’s okay. i can’t wait to travel abroad and pick a soccer team to root for. 🙂
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/blog.php?b=435
Haha its funny.
I love football scarves and collect on all my travels, and love obscure scarves in my collection.
Except I am half white/half european, and Ive played and known soccer since I was small, and followed my local Athenian team for a long time. But on my travels and study abroads I pick up new teams I support as well…
A lot of Americans (whites) are really into watching it, but are only familiar with the new generations of players and tournaments.
You are also right that many dont know very much when asked. Many even new followers of the sport don’t have a clue about the old generations of players from the 90’s and 80’s, great clubs and dynasties fallen in Europe……
nothing to do with the topic of this post but this is a perfect example of something this blog makes fun of:
http://www.blogto.com/toronto/the_best_splurge_sushi_in_toronto/
LOL!
There are so many of those white people in Toronto.
You really don’t get it, do you?
How many white people do you see at soccer matches, even big international ones — never mind the Pirates-Chiefs derby?
Very few, because they’re all watching rugby.
Scotland and Ireland.
Debate over, you are a retard, thank you for trying.
There is so much hostility here.
http://www.ninjatickets.com/?ag=110
You obviously have no clue what you are talking about when it comes to footy in this nation. Please do the world a favor and shoot yourself in the face. We dont need anymore stupid people in this country. You are clouding the gene pool.
There is definitely truth in your humor.
“In fact, the main reason white people like soccer is so they can buy a new scarf. As you may or may not know, many soccer teams issue special scarves, and white people cannot get enough of them!”
This is the funniest thing I have read all day.
Soccer is the #1 sport in two kinds of countries:
a) England, where it was invented; and
b) countries that need to import their #1 sport
[Note that English is not the #1 language in any of b).]
Soccer is the “world game” everywhere– but Japan (129m), Bangladesh (137m), Pakistan (168m), Indonesia (224m), the United States (325m*), India (1,150m) and China (1,350m). That’s 3.5bn, or 70% of the world’s population. What happened to the “world game”? (And don’t tell me about the J-League; it’s just MLS with better club names.)
Look, I enjoy the game too, and grew up with it, but like progressive rock, it is basically a proletarian enterprise with an awful lot of pretention among its boosters.
And it’s the only sport whose white fans ever riot.
The * in #324:
If 325m for the US seems a bit high, rest assured it’s not braggadocio. It’s just a safe assumption that our Census Bureau isn’t counting everyone who’s here.
Huh, who knew?
People are packaging trite, half-witted half-truths as humor? And slack-jawed slow-witted sluggardly yokels everywhere are nodding in dim-witted dullardly agreement? Ain’t it great to be alive in the twentyfirst century?
I’m white and I really do love soccer. It’s the only team sport I watch, except for the NFL Super Bowl. My wife and I moved to Florida, so I will finally go see a Mets game. Over 20 years in NYC, and we never went to a baseball game. Now, I like the idea of just sitting in the bleachers, eating hotdogs and drinking beer, while nothing happens out on the field most of the time. Soccer is a sport; baseball is a pastime.
When I was in college, friends asked me if I really liked classical music or did I just listen to it because it was ‘good’ for me. Classical music: the breakfast of champions. The scary part is these people would go on to be our leaders in business, science, the arts, politics.
Chelsea, West Ham and the Spurs all play in London. But don’t take my word for it, I have never been to England. Now, I’m off for a kick-about with the ‘lads’ next door — in their 20s, and Mexican, I do believe. “Nessun Dorma” will be singing in my head.
I love Schefchenko…… he is the best Soccer player ever, lets here it for Schefchenko and his team… the Netherlands…. he is the best! Yeah!
(I know it is Shevchenko, and I know he is really from the Ukraine)
PS
Do only white people use the internet???
stuffblackpeoplelike.wordpress.com
hilarious. so true
can you please talk about google products, graphic t-shirts, converse, california?
Finally one that doesn’t apply to me! I am so very white, but I legitimately love football. by the way Arsenal is London to respond to an old post. It would be as big here as everywhere else around the world if there were opportunities to watch top flight football. The only time someone without a pay channel can watch it is champions league games on ESPN 2 at 230.
I could not care less about soccer!
Enjoyed your blog!
Very true; I remember when I could name 8 active professional soccer players. Now, it’s only David Beckham.
You are one of the least-read bloggers I have ever seen. Has it ever occurred to your peabrain that maybe white people say they like soccer because they like to PLAY it, not sit on their butts and watch it and spend more time thinking about pro players then getting better themselves!? My WHITE soccer mate is going to Georgetown on a soccer scholarship. Top 10 in the nation.
Have you ever been to the US of A? White people don’t wear soccer scarves here in Texas, we’re too busy sweating our fat white butts all over the dry field.
I’ve never had cable while growing up, and still don’t. The only soccer I get on TV is in Spanish and plays at obscure hours during the night. It’s pretty hard to learn about standings and teams that aren’t even aired where I live.
Normally I’m not chewing people like this, but your sheer ignorance pisses me off. If you’re going to try and be funny, don’t even think about getting between a white man and sports. Is this honestly what we’ve come to in this world? “Hey, lets crap on America because they’re not tea-sipping mini-cooper driving stereotypical idiots like us” (hey an oxymoron!)
exit, stage left!
YNWA.
In LA there are so many immigrants we don’t need college people showing off. When you rise at 4.30 am to watch Liverpool draw a relegation team at a pub, you are not wearing a scarf. Rather, you are wearing a Carra shirt.
This is a great blog and people who don’t get it are stupid. Not entitled to their own opinion. Stupid. Thank God I don’t know you.
@sdot, dude and rob — hahaha, thanks guys, you made the comments worth reading — oh, and that hisvalkyrie girl — she’s on target!!
anybody below that..sorry..too many comments. i doubt anyone is reading this one!
anyway..this was really funny. it’s so fun to make fun of yuppies! i can’t wait to drive my suv to starbuck’s in the morning to talk about this site with my small-dog-owning friends!
i played soccer in high school and watched the world cup when i had my wisdom teeth removed. ever since then, i’ve considered myself a soccer aficionado. that was a decade ago when that michael guy played…and that huge red-bearded dude.
i haven’t read all the blogs, but i sure hope there are posts about pottery barn, silk flowers, stupidly expensive candles, miniature things (like those adorable little ketchup bottles or salt shakers on the airplane), farmer’s markets, making fun of people who spend exorbitant amounts of money on clothes/shoes/purses/etc while carrying around fake vuittons and fake jewelry to try to look like they have enough money to waste on ridiculously expensive things.
Coming from the same point of view of mattpc, have you , the author, ever actually looked at an all american soccer audience? Or have you ever seen the high school soccer teams down in Texas and up there in past new england territories?
Most Americans who say they like soccer are indeed telling the truth. But i have no idea what kind of air headed, “must have been dropped on the head” people you have been hanging out with , but this is wholly untrue.
and wow…just wow…scarves?
seriously?
have you been to America lately? Sure you’ve got the scarves up in New york but that’s because it’s cold, sure you’ve got the scarves in California, but that’s only a few counting on the fact that the only people who follow fashions trends there are rich people who have nothing else to do with their money.
I am over all appalled at your misdirection and sense of so called “white people”
And that’s great that they go on vacations but i know for a fact that MPC over here, nor have my friends, or their friends…hell i live in a community of soccer players/lovers who’ve never even been out of the country.
You tell us that the white man researches his soccer!!!!
well you’re being a hypocrite by showing us YOU HAVN’T RESEARCHED THIS YOURSELF.
What amazing following you have. i love your blog title,its very cute.
Let’s be honest here- soccer is popular with white overprotective parents because it’s very difficult for their miserable kid to look like the lone a-hole. In soccer everyone gets to touch the ball and it’s usually impossible for a goal against to be blamed on 1 person.
Take for instance baseball. If your kid strikes out looking with the bases loaded in the last inning everyone knows your little rodent is a choker. But soccer? Nope! Can’t blame a loss on 1 kid. Soccer is used to protect the egos of kids that should be playing piano.
Wht plp like fruitcake.
I can’t stand soccer. Just saying. I mean, I pretty much cover about 60 out of 80 of these posts – thusly I’m like embracing 75% of my whiteness. So does that fact that I am likely to be a soccer mom at some point in my white career make me eligible for this post? Just want to make sure. I’m trying to up my quota to 76%.
Two more things white people like that you may want to include:
Ranting on blogs because they don’t understand tongue-in-cheek humor.
Being angry to look and feel superior.
If you need a basis for the thesis, see above…
During the 2006 World Cup, I pretended to like France because it pissed off my roommate. She had become a rabid Brazil fan while she was studying abroad, of course.
Funny. Try taking a geography class. Manchester United is in MANCHESTER not London. Superdestroyer perpetuated the myth the black people don’t play soccer. Actually 17% of Major League Soccer players are black (and American) but only 8% play Major League Baseball. As for white parents protecting their kids feelings it partially true but one person certainly be blamed for a goal. Ask Pablo Escobar.
this site’s pretty funny but it should really be called “what educated, sheltered (from poor people), affluent, urban white people like”
most white people don’t like the idea of soccer….they like football…the American version…I’m talking Bret Favre here
….white people like Bret Favre and are sad he’s retiring.
This post is inaccurate, nobody outside of Spain likes Barca.
white people love the book: “How Soccer Explains the World,” I think that is the title… anyway, it is true. Soccer does explain the world. White people also love travling about to play soccer in other countries, especially “developing nations” because the soccer there, while lively is not completely organized, which offers a unique opportunity for white people to develop opportunities for the “non-white” people to become more like themselves!
White people who like soccer LOVE assists. Any white person who likes the idea of soccer doesn’t care about the goal, but rather the passes leading up to it.
I had a seminar with a guy who wrote his thesis on the soccer team from where he went abroad, in Europe. We were in the class all semester and all I could ever figure out about his topic was that it was about sport….and how it’s important in…politics.
Hey let me spoil what the final post will be on this blog- it will be a blog post about this blog.
@Rob
Love the Pablo Escobar reference.
@Everyone who thinks NFL is tough
They are a bunch off girls. Who needs to wear body armor and a helmet when playing football? Check out rugby league, rugby union, or AFL to see real men playing football.
That said, Soccer is the only real FOOTball, seeing as in every other variation the ball spends more time in your hands.
The post was mildly amusing, but being white and loving my football, its kind of not relevent in my mind
Soccer sucks.
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How do you know Andy? “Go Real Madrid.”
douchez
This is bogus. North American white people don’t claim to like soccer. That’s why it’s not popular.
im american and forzaaaaaaaaaaaaaa juve.
i know more about european football than most europeans
I disagree, I think that soccer (football) is more so enjoyed by brown third world peasants than white people. Soccer sucks.
alessio, sounds brown. americans speak english, usually.
Let me see if I understand the theme here…blog after blog…
Some white people travel…are most often interested in learning about other cultures…occasionally take back a pleasurable new influence (beer, football, etc)…and return with a new way of seeing the world and perhaps their own.
Yeah, what a bunch of wankers.
Soccer sucks.
While in Japan, I lived 20 miles from Shin-Yokohama stadium, site of the 2002 World Cup Final. Did I attend or watch it on TV?? No way. Soccer is horrible.
I was too busy eating sushi, reading manga and finger-banging my Japanese girlfriend.
I am a white North American who likes soccer, but try to stay in the closet about it, lest I be ridiculed by my other white friends and lumped in with those bastards that try to pretend they are European and wear those dumb ass scarves while talking about how the other Americans are too culturaly brain dead to enjoy the “beautiful game”. Can’t wait until MLS paychecks increase and entices some NBA thug type youth to get into the sport and onto the rosters, then those faux Euro trash ass hats can go and watch cricket or something instead.
#357, I agreed with you up until you said “wankers” wtf?
#358 finger banging? did she have some STD? drop the shorts buddy
To the little jew adam in #189
Tottenham is liked by racist Yids. The EPL isn’t even English anymore, and they invented the game of soccer.
White people would rather live in Spain or Italy these days as England is turning into a turd-world cess pool, like much of America also (esp. SoCa).
I utterly hate soccer, actually. Not the sport itself, but the huge brainless following and the false idolatry they commit to. What’s so fantastic about watching adults chase a leather ball across a lawn? It’s not just soccer, it’s basically any team sport, but soccer is so hideously BORING.
someone wrote: “Let’s be honest here- soccer is popular with white overprotective parents because it’s very difficult for their miserable kid to look like the lone a-hole.”
Hilarious! They are even trying to outlaw “heading” the ball, so their precious brats won’t get “concussions”.
#346 white people love the book: “How Soccer Explains the World,” I think that is the title… anyway, it is true.
TOTALLY WRONG. That book is the anthesis of White. It is a jew book written by “Franklin Foer” who is an anti-White liberal jew.
That book is pathetic and many Europeans who read it, laughed at how stupid it was. Foer write for the New Republic, an anti-white political journal.
Foer states in that book that he started to “like” Barcelona solely because their fan base are communists.
#342 During the 2006 World Cup, I pretended to like France because it pissed off my roommate.
Of course you noticed that there weren’t any real Frenchman on that team, right?
If Real in Spanish means “Royal”, then someone explain to me the name in MLS: Real Salt Lake
What kind of racist piece of shit blog is this?
I’m white. Hell, I’m as white as they come. And I’ve played and loved soccer for most of my natural life. I play. I coach. I watch and study the game.
Favorite team: The Crew, sadly. For you idiots, that would be the MLS team in Columbus, OH.
Favorite European team: don’t have one. They’re in Europe. Having one would make me a eurosnob. But if I had to lean towards one, it’d be Fulman due to their propensity to hire Americans.
Favorite National team: The U.S., duh.
Jesus, someone should make this blog die in fire.
#155, Luca Toni has been playing for Bayern Munich since last summer. So do a couple other obscure no-name European soccer players that don’t play for Man U or Chelsea, such as Oliver Kahn, Lucio, Ze Roberto or Franck Ribery.
Cheering for Luca Toni at Fiorentina would be about the same as saying “Go Eagles! Go T.O. #81!”
However, it is also true that white Americans are not aware of the existence of lower league unknown European teams such as Bayern or Inter since 90% of white American “soccer fans” only follow the EPL in a half-ass manner because it is closer to their presumptive Anglo roots.
Sure, white American folks might be familiar with Man U after their last school trip to London or the latest Beckham gossip, however they couldn’t tell which team is which if Bayern played Juventus for example or which country these two obscure European soccer teams hail from.
The EPL sucks because it’s not even English anymore.
You’re an idiot!!! How can you say that when you don’t know what the majority of “white americans” think. I happen to be white and an american and I love soccer. I’ve been playing since i can remember, recess during the spring we’d play soccer and I’ve even played in a county league when I was 12. Granted many say they like soccer and don’t know much about it. Soccer isn’t as well publicized in America, so its harder to get info and many people don’t care to know that much about the history of soccer. They just want to know about it from the point they start cheering for a team. This however does not make them proverbial “posers”. It just means that they are a little less dedicated. In conclusion I must ask, ARE YOU A RACIST?!! I mean seriously if we go by your logic skinny people don’t like american football because they’re not fat. Do yourself a favor and grow up.
I’m white and grew up in the suburbs and played “soccer” since I was five.
I’m also first-generation Italian and my parents grew up with the game. I’ve loved playing and watching it for as long as I can remember.
July 11, 1982 was one of the best days of my life. I still get chills thinking about Dino Zoff lifting the world cup trophy…it was a magical summer, and a magical day. July 9, 2006 was another one.
This is a post written out of ignorance of the sport. Many Americans who don’t understand the sport feel a need to denigrate soccer. It’s your opinion, you’re entitled to it. But it’s nonetheless an opinion based on ignorance. If you’d go to a game in Europe, you might become a fan yourself, because the passion inside the stadium is unlike anything in the US.
There is a beauty and subtlety to the game that Americans don’t understand. *It’s a sport for countries that don’t play hegemony.* Most of the rest of the world understands it though…we’ll just keep enjoying the game, laughing at those who knock it (95% of them being Americans).
By the way, I don’t find any wit or insight in this post…it’s amazing the stuff people call “funny” on the internet. If the blogger is as intelligent and funny as people claim he is, I’m sure he could do better than this.
Be flattered that I even responded to this.
there’s a lot of really edgy people reading this blog
Clandery, we must have never crossed paths. I’m your mid 30’s white male caucasionm, and I’m a proud soccer enthusiast, and a former player of the most dispised sport in the United States of America. I’ve always been baffled why my peers have always felt so much animosity towards the sport. It’s probably the most simple of team sports and the most non-prejudice sport that exits. You don’t have to be excessively tall (although height can be advantagous as a player) as required by basketball. You don’t have to be grossley overweight (running for 90 minutes during matches and practices has a tendency to play partisan against obesity) as recommended by American football people. And it’s rather difficult to chew tobacco and play simultaneously as is suggested in the rules of baseball (Although is baseball really a sport? It’s a 4 hour contest where the participants only exert energy for 4 minutes during the entire 4 hours.)
Real football (or as you would like to call it soccer) requires speed, quickness, agility, balance, stamina, and intelligence. You can be 5’5″ at 140lbs or you can be 6’6″ at 240lbs and be an exceptional “soccer” player. Weight training may be advantageous, but is not essential for success. If an athlete is defined by the circumference of a bicept or shoe size, then you may find that “soccer” players are not athletes. Do you consider Joe Montana, Darrell Green, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Chris Paul, Isaih Thomas, etc. exceptional athletes? Of course.
Soccer requires no expesive gear or equipment. Gear and equipment provides no advantage to the individuals talents and skills. Special shoes do not help you kick the ball further (bats for baseballs). Gloves don’t help you catch the ball better (wide receivers). Players play the game without interuption from commercials. Players must play the game without interference from the coaches. In “soccer” you can’t call a timeout because you don’t like the way the play is set up, or because you’re running out of time on a possession. The coaches have to coach prior to the games. But when it comes to the game, the players determine the outcome, not the coaches.
I love football (soccer) for every reason why you probably don’t. Please do not watch the games on television; Please, do not attend the matches; Please do not let your children grow up to be “soccer” players; Please do not embarras yourself by trying to kick a soccer ball – because it is just so easy to do; Please try not to embarras yourself by writing such childish articles
This made me laugh.
Like many of your commentaries, it might be true of Americans generally, as opposed to white people, since it certainly doesn’t apply to Europeans.
But it was still funny. And just like you said, I’m white and I like soccer but I sure as hell don’t watch it or know anything about it. I do like to play it with my little cousins.
I studied abroad, enjoyed soccer and now support the USA national team…I am so white!
If we support an MLS team does that make us “white” as well…I’m confused. This site is awful.
*checks skin color*
i play soccer/football.
christ almight i’m never gonna be white enough for this list!
almighty*
one word, racist >.>
A C Milan 0 Aresnal 2
That also rules.
I agree with the part about Americans not being into soccer much, but the most of the rest of it doesn’t make any sense to me, personally.
The reason I got into soccer so much was from playing FIFA 08 on XBOX, I’ve never left the North America, but I now have Setana and FSC, and fancy myself as an AC Milan Fan…I doesn’t destroy me when they lose though. So I guess this is dead on.
Im not sure its people who like soccer that are stupid. In response to one reply here what the hell does supporting man utd have to do with visiting london. Thats like saying I visited Miami and became a buffalo bills fan. thats moronic
man, I’m English and have the dubious pleasure of having football streamed at me every single day of my life, and yet strangely, I’ve never found the time to care. It sounds like ‘soccer’ is a suburban, family activity for you guys, when everyone over here knows that the true way to experience a match is to
A: drink tea that has gone cold,
B:eat a pie of unknown origin,
C: spend the 8 hours previous to the match drinking and shouting and finally
D:Have a big fight.
These bits are awesome, the sport itseelf is just overpaid primadonnas (and in Argentina-actual Madonnas) faffing about for 90 minutes.
Great piece, and, believe it or not, as a football* fan I fully endorse a lot of what you’re saying!
Here in Ireland we have far too many people posing a soccer supporters wearing Manchester Utd, Liverpool and Celtic shirts. (Not all of them are necessarily white either, and you’ll notice that these clubs are also courting ‘fans’ in the far East).
Of course, the real supporters are the ones who follow their local clubs, like the Bohs! Our season is just about to start, but , for most Irish people, it might as well be gridiron.
(*This refers to the football that is played with, well, feet.)
After traveling to Europe there is only one thing i noticed differently about europeans and Americans.. european guys dress like faggots
This is crazy nonsense, and publishing it is unbelievably stupid. And racist, of course.
Shin
Go Arsenal!! Love me my Fantasy Soccer!!
I think one reason why white Americans go so gagga over the World Cup is that it’s the only soccer they really get on a broad level. I mean, unless you have dish and get Setanta Sports, FSC and GolTV, you aren’t getting a lot of soccer year round minus the Champion’s League on ESPN2 (which…what’s the point in watching if you can’t follow the individual country’s leagues?) and MLS (and while it’s definitely gotten much better over the past few years, it’s no where near the excitement of a game at the Emmirants or White Heart Lane or something like that).
Hey Bohs fan,
Isn’t Gaelic Football a much higher attended sport there? I tried watching a couple matches but I didn’t really understand the sport. I think I watched a Donegal Vs Kerry game.
The professional Irish football league, isn’t it the Eiricom League or something? It’s pretty small still right?
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“The English invented it, the Brazilians perfected it.”
CUNTS
I am white and and love soccer and have never been to Europe and don’t really follow any soccer teams, even MLS. I’ve played soccer my whole life and love getting with some guys and playing a pickup game. I also coach high school soccer, which would be easier if their earlier coaches knew anything about the game.
But, I also love basketball, baseball, and football. I’ve never understood why people try to compare them and bash the ones they don’t like. They are all very different from each other and don’t really compare. What I like about soccer that’s different, is that it’s all on the players. There are no time outs where a coach can pause the game.
Yes Andy. Gaelic football is much, much bigger all right, which is a pity, as it wouldn’t be my choice. Like you, I don’t understand it either! (In any case, the genuine Gaelic game is hurling.)
Eircom League is the professional Irish football league. We’re struggling against the total dominance of the English Premier League and Gaelic football, and crowds are relatively small. But the fans know their football, the atmosphere can be electric and sometimes we have some pretty decent games.
We even have our own scarves!
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I’m only half-white and the co-author is technically hispanic, but we sort of count.
There’s two types of soccer/football fans to me:
1. Those who think Clint Mathis is the coolest player that ever lived
2. Everyone else
I remember the old NASL.
The anti-white racists, multi-cultists, liberal/jewish media, and all the “people of color” were salivating over getting Pele as their front to brainwash white kids and push integration etc. etc. (ad nauseum).
Boy, were they pissed he was upstaged by a white player: Giorgio Chinaglia. In Pele’s last game Chinaglia scored the winning goal and again the anti-white racists cringed.
Im a white american but am a die hard Rangers (Glasgow) fan cuz of my Grandpa. Growing up all i heard was him singing rangers songs and telling stories about when he was younger back in scotland. Now every chance i get we talk “football.”
There is so much passion and tradition in soccer its unreal, it puts american football and baseball fans to shame.
Also,
“Football is played by real men in shoulder pads and helmets. ”
-So what are rugby players like myself called??
you know who else likes soccer?
Terrorists.
I’m white and I have no interest in any professional sports. I do like soccer though, but only because it’s a great sport for kids. My son played for five seasons and it was, I think, a better experience than football or baseball could have ever been.
I went to a Liverpool-Everton match years ago at Anfield in northern England. What amazing atmosphere that place has.
i’m from Barcelona and yes. Here the sport king is soccer. And whats the problem???
I don’t speak bullshit about baseball or american football ( for me and all the people that i know are boring like no other sport on the world)
😀 RogerHaus!!!
I will have to say that sadly. 90% of the people who posted here are more ignorant than a rat.
First of all the article talks about WHITE people as if white people where from the USA.
What the hell is that? Remarks as “white people imitate Europeans” FYI Europeans ARE WHITE people if you have SOME white in the USA is Thanks to your the immigrants of all other countries.
Why do Americans talk to them selves as White? Germans and Russians are white and guess what. Italians are white too. and to tell you more about a world that Americans don’t know shit of.
South America has 40% of White population as well. That means over 45 million people.
I have never seen ANY BODY so ignorant like the So Wrongly called Americans, because FYI America is NOT the name of your country; it is the United States. (of where?) of the “American Continent”
You have the idea that you invented Everything, including whites. You think starbucks is the inventor of some great coffee? well again All you did is TRavel to Europe, copy a menu from ANY place in Italy and then brought it here and you Think you invented the shit. The same with Millions of things that you Believe are yours, but non of them are.
That is why you are being fooled by your government, because you don’t know anything and you are just so Busy making money for the next size up TV.
wow barpaza…if south america total has 45 million white people, and thats 40% of the world’s white population…..that would mean america & europe would contain about 60million white people (combined)…good math there.
#402 great post
Europe is the home of the indigenous Whites.
#383 your post is distressing:
“Here in Ireland we have far too many people posing a soccer supporters wearing Manchester Utd, Liverpool and Celtic shirts. (Not all of them are necessarily white either).”
WHY is Ireland following in the footsteps of the UK which is overrun with Turd Worlders and kids named Mohammed?
SAY NO TO A BLACK IRELAND.
SAY NO TO A NON-WHITE IRELAND.
You guys better wise up fast. Nigieria has 130 million people, Ireland has 4 million. The numbers don’t compute.
If WW2 had ended differently, then Whites would still run Europe.
‘WHY is Ireland following in the footsteps of the UK which is overrun with Turd Worlders and kids named Mohammed?
SAY NO TO A BLACK IRELAND.
SAY NO TO A NON-WHITE IRELAND.
You guys better wise up fast. Nigieria has 130 million people, Ireland has 4 million. The numbers don’t compute.
If WW2 had ended differently, then Whites would still run Europe.’
Uh-oh… I don’t think this is about ‘soccer’ any more.
Last!!!! (morons)
But seriously (that sounds white), I see rugby in the same way as soccer/footbol. There’s always been something terminally white about the rugby fans/players I’ve known. Not the hooligan-types mind you, but the liberal arts fratboy type who gets into nature and playing Indigo Girls songs on acustic guitar cuz they think chicks dig it (or thats their excuse at least).
Uh, white people in Europe like soccer… maybe this blog should change its name to “Stuff American White People Like”
Yeah…
Soccer v. Rugby, check it out…..
LOL HEY GUYS THIS ONE’S FUNNY TOO. ROFL ROFLR FOLR
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barpaza
good point, now go throw on your Nikes and grab a big mac with a coca-cola, you must be famished from dissing America.
Sorry Barpazza,
That should have read:
you must be famished from dissing the “United States of the American Continent”
You’r an idiot.
white people dont know ish about soccer, europeans exempt.
I think you should be more specific and say white Americans. There are lots of “white people” in Europe AND South America who are die hard soccer fans and don’t do it for the scarves.
@ #7
Us leet types support Arsenal and feign attitudes of hooliganism at Manchester United supporters.
Even though I’ve only seen a few matches, hardly know anything about the club members or the positions they play, I still have the scores sent to my mobile. Also I used England getting kicked out of the cup last year as an excuse to go down to the pub and get hammered.
Did I mention that I bought the England World Cup CD off of iTunes and blasted it from my car?
After that I pop in some Goldie Looking Chain.
@ #65 What about Chelsea and Westham Untd?
Manchester United actually plays in Manchester, not London. By the way nonwhites actually enjoy soccer too. The whole world watches this sport. You think the Super Bowl gets ratings? Check out how many people watch mid week Champions League matches. By the way, the worst thing you can bring back from your study abroad in London is a fake love for Arsenal.
Oh… I get it. White people is shorthand for White, Middle classed, Americans with dellusions of enlightenment….. for a while I just assumed you were demented, but now I realise you’re refering to americans it’s starting to make sense.
Keep up the ..um… good …um…. work?
“#80 The Idea of Soccer”
soccer is just a worthless word invented by usa.
the sport played kicking a ball with feet is FOOTBALL.
usa people use “football” instead of “american rugby”.
“Rugby” is short for “rugby football.” Rugby (in all its forms) is just a different code of football. So are American football and Canadian football. As a result, Americans (and Canadians) had to call the game you just call “football” by its proper name, “Association Football” because it is not the most popular or widely-played code of football in those respective countries.
American Football and Canadian football are NOT rugby. The rules are very different. And they are much more exciting to watch than any rugby union or rugby league game I’ve ever seen. But that’s just a matter of opinion, I suppose.
but soccer isn’t the correct name for football
No… but “Association Football” is.
And, that name was shortened from “association football” to “soccer.”
wait! what?
how “association football” became “soccer”?
it’s a non sense abbraviation
OK… whatever.
What is a common abbreviation for “association?”
soc?
so also association tennis can be soccer?
“Assoc.” is a form of abbreviation for “association.” Seeing that, one can (hopefully) see how it mutated into “soccer” as a casual/slang way to refer to “association football.”
Since a different code of football (one where you can use your hands) ended up becoming the dominant form of the game in the US, “soccer” ended up being the de facto “name” for the game lots of other people commonly just call “football.”
It’s similar to why rugby is called “rugby” instead of “football” in England, etc. If it were more popular than association football, it would probably just be called “football.” In fact, a lot of club names use “association football club” or “rugby union football club” (or, indeed, “rugby league football club”) when the town has teams for multiple codes of the game of “football.”
As far as your question about tennis, I am not familiar with a game called “association tennis.” But, assuming such a game exists, I would still have to say, “no.” “Soccer” is a name for a specific sport… the sport of association football.
And, contrary to popular belief, the word “soccer” is used outside of the USA. It may not be as popular, but it is used.
Role (#420)
So I did a little more investigating and found out that the term “soccer” was invented by the English. And they invented the modern game. So, I guess your arguments are worthless.
I have a question though. “Soccer” jerseys aren’t really the cheapest piece of merchandise at least here in the US.
Do poseurs really go so far to spend between $60-$80 to buy a jersey of a team they never watch or don’t know anything about?
I went to a Flogging Molly show in Philly in the fall. I was surprised how many Celtic FC jerseys there were. One of the guys had the name of Caldwell on the back of his Jersey so I went to talk to him. I figured if he paid extra for the name, he probably knows the game.
I was wrong.
You should do one about how all white people pretend to be Irish and go ape shit on St Patrick’s day but don’t know shit about the real culture of Ireland.
This is true. I went to Madrid and one of the girls bought 2 scarves. She does not watch football (soccer).
Yeah but you know, scarves are like, $20. Jerseys are most times close to $80 for a new home jersey, $60 for a new away. I mean, that’s a lot of money to spend on something you know nothing about.
@429: I actually don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day because there’s the whole Catholic v. Protestant thing happening and I’d rather do as little as possible to encourage it along. Of course I don’t oppose the holiday either, or the rights of the Irish to celebrate it, but I just don’t touch it myself.
And I was woundering myself why someone would get a love for Man U out of London.
hahahahah this is soooooooo true
Too many emo kids cut themselves and think its smart.
You know im right.
Well you know, since there was no protestantism when St Patrick came to Ireland, all of Christianity can celebrate it guilt free!
Hi! I’ve just discovered this site and haven’t browse through it properly…I think it refers mostly to United States citizens, right? Because…in Europe people who say they’re into football (aka soccer, so that everyone may grasp the concept) they’re really into football! And some not onlt watch it but also play it whenever they have some time…Anyway, Americans not even changed this sport’s name, but all the terminology is twisted and adpted for American ears…I’m not sure how to take this, I guess they needed to make themselves understood…
Hi! I’ve just discovered this site and haven’t browse through it properly…I think it refers mostly to United States citizens, right? Because…in Europe people who say they’re into football (aka soccer, so that everyone may grasp the concept) they’re really into football! And some not onlt watch it but also play it whenever they have some time…Anyway, Americans not even changed this sport’s name, but all the terminology is twisted and adpted for American ears…I’m not sure how to take this, I guess they needed to make themselves understood…
In case someone still doesn’t get it, the “white people” referred to in this blog are USAers, that’s obvious in all the topics – so all the Europeans can relax, it’s not about you.
Ok, now back to arguing which kid’s game where a bunch of people chase a ball around is “better” than another.
@435- Well, I’m an atheist anyway, and I think it reminds one of the conflict, what with Belfast banning celebrations of the patron saint of Ireland, and the IRA getting involved, and the English killing Irish nationalists, and all kinds of nastyness. I respect the right of Irish to celebrate whatever they wish to and even though I have some Irish blood, it’s a conflict that I don’t want to be getting involved in or taking sides on because that opens up all kinds of doors annnnnd it’s not a battle I choose to fight.
Awesome. This one is so funny it hurts me. Oh my side.
Me not like soccer. Me not know any Americans who like soccer. It very boring. Me like 1) NFL, 2) Boxing, 3) Ultimate Fighting, 4) COOKIES! But, other whites also like Hockey and Baseball.
Europeans are relaxed, thank you very much…butt I guess not white enough, right?
I haven’t said football/soccer is better, you just assumed that I did, Moreofthesame…Good grief, all sports are more than welcome…so maybe you shouldn’t make such a big deal about it and crack your mind a little bit? And by the way, this isn’t the only sport I’m “into”, so back off!
I did a study abroad in London but I support Partick Thistle in the SPL. But then again, I’m not white.
I also support (and have the scarves of) the Brumbies. Do Black people like rugby?
stand up if you hate stuffwhitpeoplelike.
i’m in my 10th season of winning eleven with watford…. lulz!
Did Tom Hanks really ask what part of Italy Aston Villa were from?
I hate soccer. Have never claimed to like it or have ever been the least bit interested in it.
My son will play Football! (Not Soccer)
http://hotlard.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/football-rules/
Soccer Sucks.
The only reason the whole world does not play USA style football is it is too expensive. It is much more fun to play and watch. Rugby is great too.
Jesus H. Christ, I’m a cartoon of a white person. By the way, I like Roma and Bayern Munich, but can’t name any players who aren’t from the past year or so. Ahhhhhh!
The fact that so many people can not lay back and just enjoy the joke, after all this time….it’s just mind boggling. I love the posts that say “Well I am white and I don’t like (insert topic here).” Like that some how invalidates the joke, or stereotype.
If you are unfortunate enough to watch Oprah or any tv talk show, and they discuss race, someone will always stand up and say something to the same effect. It’s hilarious, and sad at the same time.
You are a racist.
I was going to post…
But it looks like you beat me to it at the end of your post!
I love scarfs as well… spot on!
I am so white!
Great blog
this only applies to americans
I am black and I love this site!Everytime i come on here I can’t stop laughing.
This is so true. I’m half-white and I if I were to pretend like I cared about soccer I would totally bullshit about some team from Brazil since I went there on a study abroad program. This entry is spot-on!
The authors of the site should visit Africa. Soccer is as big there as in Europe.
You make exemptions for this but not all the other posts. That’s irresponsible.
and here I thought it was cuz white ppl love acting European. lolz, great read.
This has to be a joke. Speaking as a white person who lives and breathes soccer, I only know a few people of any color who love the game and a whole lot who couldn’t care less. Americans aren’t pretending to like soccer….. They’re all too busy pretending to like American Football.
There are many white people who like FC Barcelona and love that they made it to the quarterfinals of the Champions League unlike Real Madrid (Yes I know the SPL standings.)
At least Barca is owned by the people. Something that Green Bay fans might appreciate especially since that is something white people like.
I also follow the Colorado Rapids whose owner also owns a big chunk of Arsenal (He’s white and rich). On opening day for the Rapids new stadium, they did however run out of scarves.
Lots of white people.
To all the soccer/football fans. Are you ashamed of being white or liking a sport that most white people don’t like? Personally, I’m not ashamed of either. I do want the scarf in the picture though.
I am SICK of deranged and traitorous Whites. Arsenal would have been unlikely to have a single Englishman.
Is this why Churchill fought?
In December, the Italian and European club champions AC Milan became the first European club to win the official FIFA Club World Cup held in Tokyo when they beat South American club champions Boca Juniors in the Final 4-2. Among the 14 players they used, 11 were White and 8 of these were Italians. If it had been a top English Premier League club representing Europe, it would have been a different story. Arsenal would have been unlikely to have a single Englishman, Chelsea perhaps 2 or 3, and even Manchester United, the Whitest and most British of the big teams last season, would have had only 3 or 4 indigenous British players according to recent team selections.
It is for this very reason that Italy is World Cup champion and favorites to win the European Championships, while England will be spending an uneventful summer.
460 Barca Fan–
What does the SPL have to do with Barcelona and Real Madrid?
#460 Barça “fan” from Colorado or Wisconsin or something
What des SPL have to do with Barcelona and Real Madrid regarding the CL quarterfinal standings?
Typical American white tool
Don’t forget people accurately referred to a soccer team as a “side.” Remember that’s the lexicon of cultured people that have seen the “real world.”
LOL! That is so true. I am a Bayern supporter (different from a fan – if you actually really like soccer then you’ll understand the difference) because I did a study abroad in Germany. Kahn was the only player I knew back then, hence why I started following Bayern. Anywoo…I have a quite a few scarves…and kits for that matter. I have definitely been converted into a lover of football. I played (American) football in high school and college, but (soccer) football has become my other favorite sport. I go to all the DC United matches (local team). I love american football, but the soccer crowd is much more fun. Drinking, singing and sometimes dancing while watching a great sport. Good times, good times!
i actually do like soccer quite a bit. i dont really have a team or anything. but i do have fox soccer channel and goltv and i love it. every sat and sunday i just watch soccer all morning. the problem with americans & soccer is they dont appreciate the game for what it is. i always hear people complaining that theres not enough scoring. go watch a damn basketball game then. ive watched games that ended 0-0 or 1-1 and they were still amazing games. the beauty is in the game itself not how many goals are scored…
Soccer sucks.
Gimme Rugby, NFL or MLB anytime over that nancyboy crap!
All my white friends become soccer fans only during World Cup. They are not as advanced as New York white people.
this site is really just a list of things that most black people DONT LIKE.
not the other way around.
F minus.
http://www.garbarrassing.com
now there is a site that everyone would like…
I am white (American) and I love soccer. I grew up watching it in Europe and following the game. I support Aston Villa. I 100 percent agree with the fact that people love to immerse themselves into the European culture when studying abroad and it is funny on how little they know about the teams they support.
Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan, Roma, Inter Milan, Juventus, PSV, Ajax, Bayern Munich are all teams people learn to love when they are studying abroad. These are the Yankees of the European Football Leagues and therefore the easiest to jump on the band wagon.
All this being said, to actually go to a football match in Europe is quite an amazing event. The fields are amazingly green, the crowds are intense and there is chanting going on constantly. It is truly a great time.
Americans in general lack the passion to be true football fans. Boring fucks, go eat a hot dog and yell “Lets go “.
ya football in north america is not very popular and its great to make fun of people who fake like they love it
I grew up in England (but am American) and lived there for 9 years. I’m white…i support Ipswich Town FC (lived in Stowmarket) and love Terry Butcher…does that make me a douche bag?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…soccer…….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
#473….
“i support Ipswich Town FC (lived in Stowmarket) and love Terry Butcher…does that make me a douche bag?”
Yes, it does!
I’m white and I think soccer sucks! Doesn’t even compare to American football…not even close. The only reason soccer is popular around the world is because it’s cheap to play. American football needs equipment, has a bunch of rules and takes brains to play.
dm60462 wrote:
“Football is played by real men in shoulder pads and helmets. Futbol is played by lawn fairies in silky short shorts.”
No no no. Rugby football is played by real men without shoulder pads or helmets. American football is played by lawn fairies in shoulder pads and helmets.
Association football has no shoulder pads or helmets, but given the nature of the game, why would it?
Most of the football fans in America hate soccer because they don’t have the ability and(or) knowledge to play it or just ignorance. They see soccer as a threat to their sport. Because you don’t have to be tall, strong or big enough to play it. Soccer “any body can play it “.
Soccer(football) is a culture, is a people sport, therefore; is a passion.
Way too many “Italian-American” kids at my university were sporting Italia jerseys soon after the World Cup ended; I don’t think a single one even watched the tournament whenever I would bring it up to them. None of them seemed to like me referencing to their team as a bunch of diving prima donnas, either.
None of these kids know what an AC Milan is, either.
Tell that to my white husband. The t.v. has been on Setanta all day featuring the FA Cup. He is just finishing up the Chelsea/Barnsley match. It’s 1- nil with 3 minutes left. We both love it! And that’s the truth (*raspberry* for those Laugh-In fans).
white people dont know crap about soccer.
Well, the Barnsley/Chelski match was good in that it was fun to see Chelski get their snotty noses rubbed in it. But other than that…
I have yet to meet an American Palace fan…
Idea for your Next SWPL.
LESBIANS!
MIDGETS!
LESBIAN MIDGETS!
Later. 🙂
Modern football was invented and developed in England. Today, you’re lucky to see an Englishman on an EPL side. The kike owners and coaches in the EPL will never do any favors for the native English players or Whites. You’d be stupid to think so. Sure they keep a few tokens around, but the game has totally sold out.
In Israel, they don’t allow open teams without native players because of racism (which is smart). Supporting the development of players at home is a duty, but England and their idiot drunk White fans, and their lackey weasel yuppie fans, are totally clueless.
http://castefootball.us/viewarticle.asp?sportID=8&teamID=0&ID=23264
“Here in Europe, too, there is growing consciousness of how economic forces and connected political agendas have been undermining the vital role that sport has always played in national culture and identity.
Nothing has made this clearer than the continuing decline of England’s national soccer team at a time when the English club game has become by far the biggest in the world in terms of salaries and revenues. It now generates around $3 billion a year. “
England has had bad results in the past and occasionally failed to qualify for major tournaments. But what makes this different are two factors.
First, the failure to qualify is now being seen as part of a long-term decline of the national soccer team and the level of indigenous talent, and, second,
commentators and people at the top level in the game are now starting to link this decline with the economic growth and increasing globalization of England’s top Premier League, which has seen major English club sides increasingly relying on imported talent. Indigenous English players now make up just over 30% of the players.
Hey 480. Barnsley/Chelsea was on FSC. United was on Setanta. I smell a rat!
Has anyone pledged support for JuyJuy in Argentina yet? Cuz I want to claim them. If not, I’ll claim Grasshoppers or Genclerbirligi. Or maybe Willem II (which I can actually snootily pronounce correctly).
George Best don’t care about Black People.
I detest soccer, but a great movie about English soccer “gangs” is Green Street Hooligans. Now there’s some soccer fans!
@448:
Yes, it is terribly exciting watching three seconds of play (normally resulting in a man-orgy), and then watching the players walk around for twenty seconds before repeating the process.
American football is a good sport for Americans; the action is quick, which keeps their simple minds focused, allows for plenty of adverts in-game, and gives the fat Americans time to get more food without missing anything important.
The proper name is “football”, not “soccer”. Any cultured person knows that. Uncultured people, on the other hand, reserve the word “football” for an activity that involves neither ball nor foot but rather an oblong inflated pig’s bladder and lots of hands and helmets.
I am so happy to be European!
I Europe, intellectuals are well aware that soccer is a sport for the uneducated. Unless, of course, you are hyperintellectual and want to do a one-up on mere intellectuals. A hyperintellectual cane often ame some obscure but very talented footballer.
Soccer is a great sport for Europeans and the rest of the world. It doesn’t take much thought and all you need is a ball and a few idiots to kick it around. The strategy is perfect for all the Euro trash that don’t understand American football. It’s also long and boring so there is plenty of time to riot and kill one an other.
Partick Thistle forever!
i hate soccer
http://thestuffihate.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/soccer/
What about white Americans who move to Europe permanently? Do they get special “talk about football/soccer” rights to be a more authentic authority on the subject?
Soccer has no serious future in the US. And if you’re European and this fact upsets you, I suggest you change your mind. If N. Americans didn’t play football, baseball, basketball & hockey, and put all our resources into soccer instead, we’d just dominate you at it. Then you hate us for that too.
But we wouldn’t be annoyed by phony American Manchester United “fans”, forced to cringe by pretentious Whites describing Brazilian soccer as “poetic”, and told time & time again how it’s actually the world’s most popular sport, as if that is reason enough to abandon a century of our culture and be more like rioting, drunk, racsist European soccer fans.
Soccer isn’t liked in America because you mom wanted you to play it instead of football. Soccer isn’t liked in America because things that are done well by South and Central Americans aren’t worth doing. Soccer isn’t liked in America because pretentious White People pretend to like it, and tell us how we should every four years.
Yep, this one made me laugh it is so true. Futbol wont fly in North America for so many reasons, I have to admit they finally have a decent national squad. But the fact that they are unable to jam pack 2 hrs worth of commercials into 90 minute gameplay will keep broadcasters from airing the matches.
Just was shopping at Whole Foods and saw a little kid in a Manchester United jersey. It was awesome.
IT’S FOOTBALL!!!! FUCK SOCCER!!!! WHEN WILL YOU EVER LEARN THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
American football is for poofs if they are so tough why do they wear pads even rugby players who are almost exclusively white and middle class don’t bother with it,if you are of Scottish ,British or Ulster/Scots heritage Glasgow Rangers is the team for you,No surrender Lamh Dearg Abu
White people also love football (American) and love proving how tougher it is compared to all other sports.
What the facking ‘ell is going on ‘ere then? You facking cants.
When will you goddamn Yanks stop saying “Soccer”? It’s FOOTBALL OK?
The concept being that apart from the Goalkeeper and during “Throw-ins” the game is played with your FOOT and a BALL!!!
Then you numpties (UK term for IDIOT) steal our National Game’s name for an unrelated game played by poofs in armour and played largely by carrying non spherical item in your bloody HANDS?????
Oh and btw…..CHELSEA ‘TIL I DIE.
Carefree wherever you may be
We are the famous CFC
And we don’t give a f*ck whoever you may be
‘Cos we are the famous CFC
Chelsea is jew. Loser.
Get a clue. Sucker.
The poster of this doesn’t know much about the real American soccer fans and sure doesn’t know me. Soccer is equal to people of all races and backgrounds. The reality is that the popularity of soccer/futbol has been steadily growing in the United States since it hosted the World Cup in 1994. I have been a soccer player and fan for a long time in the U.S. and understand the emotions that soccer generates with those that love and hate soccer both. Even though Americans that don’t know much about soccer may feel that people are being pretentious that are into it, I can asure you that there is nothing snobby about soccer. Once you have played it, you will understand. Sure there are alot of soccer moms that don’t know much about the game, but i’m glad they are taking there kids to play…maybe they will introduce the game to the next Ronaldinho someday. Soccer will continue to grow in popularity in the United States. It will probably be several decades before we win the World Cup. It will take us a few generations to build our youth and professional developement infrastructures. The United States also needs a better system of mining our most talented players from such a large country.
#488
Did you see last week’s Bayern vs Anderlecht game? Great, fantastic game!
Funny to see how some Americans always have to struggle if “A” is better or worse than “B” all the time. Even if they obviously just don’t know what they’re talking about.
How can you say football (“soccer”) is boring and watch NASCAR instead. Never heart of Formula 1? Or athletics, what’s the point running in circles?
And oh I just LOVE football. And I mean the real thing that you can play with your friends on a lawn without using kevlar armour and walkie-talkies in your helmets. I mean, be honest, real men can even play “American football” without all this fancy equipment. It’s called rugby. Could it be Americans are simply not tough enough for that sort of game??
Let’s hope the football (i.e.”soccer”) movement in the US will ignore those kevlar-sport fan ridicule and remember that only fairy queens need kevlar not to get hurt on a lawn.
I like soccer, American football, baseball, basketball, ice hockey, rugby union, and even don’t mind cricket.
I don’t see why it has to be an either/or proposition for so many people.
474 likes it in the ass
I’m pretty sure this applies to North Americans more than the rest of the world. Also, calling it soccer is just wrong. It’s football.
The football that the North Americans play is a misnomer since they mostly use their hands. I’ve never understood that.
Put your best rugby players against the smallest NFL players and what you have is a bloodletting. Rugby’s cool, but dont fuck with the biggest and badest. My dad played in the NFL and he talks about how many of the players like the pain.
All white soccer fans secretly loved Paolo DiCanio’s facist slautes. We are also fans West Ham, Lazio, and PSG. We like our soccer with a good dose of racism.
yes i agree that white people only like soccer for the cool scarfs. i have been playing since i was six and have gotten many cool scarfs out of it.
What about the white people who really do love football and have never even been outside of the US? I am talking about loving European Soccer, not the not even worth mentioning MLS.
I’m sure if we Yanks played Rugby, we’d splatter you Euro-weenies all over the field. Look at what Mayweather did to your BritTwit boxer, Ricky Hatton. He came over here with all this hype and was splayed out on the mat in Vegas in no tme. Apparently, the loads of drunken, brittwit losers, complete with the ususal cringe-inducing sunburns and brown socks with shorts, were so out-of-control, the casino had to close down.
Be thankful we don’t play your sports. If we did, with our resources and population, we’d win them all the time, and you’d hate us for that too.
Let me be the first person on this thread to say Manchester United are from Manchester.
Nope. Soccer sucks. I refuse to apologize, even though I am white. If I want to watch a sport that ends in a 1-1 tie, I’ll watch hockey, because at least you get to watch the players beat the crap out of each other.
Matt, you ROCK!
Soccer:
Run around kick the ball and eventualy it lands in the goal. (MAYBE).
American Football:
Come up with a plan & discuss it (huddle) try it (play). If it doesn’t work, try three more times (down). Iff you can’t get it right give up the ball and let the other guys try. Fair? Productive?
matt! did you read my blog??? you kinda sounds like me.
http://thestuffihate.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/soccer/
Only in America is soccer not popular. Its the most popular sport of white people, unless you count outside-of-america as all not white.
@The Dude
lol @ how threatened you are. You don’t win shit in sports, thats why you are here talking like a bigotted faggot.
I think that white people in america wish they were as excited and had as much fun as soccer fans. All we have here is baseball and football….which when you compare to soccer lack atmosphere and excitement. Americans may say that soccer is boring, but billions of people get excited over it much much more than we get excited over our own sports.
There is no american equivelant of Fenerbahce’s fans:
And most england fans make the raiders and eagles fans look like a bunch of sissy boys at a tupperware party.
lol @ the NFL fans above who are jelously hating on soccer. You know that soccer dominates the world, and your american football doesn’t. IT DRIVES YOU INSANE!!! so you bash soccer out of jelousy and envy.
BTW, American football = Sumo Wrestling = A sport only liked by the nation that invented it for traditional reasons, played by fatassas. No one gives a shit about either.
Sorry. My blog is lame, and I am an idiot for “not realizing how much I hated soccer” until I read a Chuck Klosterman book.
Man, I really wish Matt would read my lame-ass blog. Maybe then I would get some attention, maybe a little internet buzz…. etc. Book deal, here I come!
There are two 24-hour channels in the US dedicated entirely to soccer: Fox soccer channel and GolTV. Each week, millions of white USians watch the premiership, but few watch the MLS. Nevertheless, the MLS has an average attendance equal to the NHL and just slightly below the NBA.
The last world cup final was watched by as many white USians as the world series. It was also more watched than the NBA finals and NHL finals combined.
Not to mention that it is the most popular participatory sport, it has become this in the last 15 years.
Americans like soccer, they just don’t like the fact that the best soccer isn’t american. THe best football and basketball are american, so they watch that instead. To say that “no one here cares about soccer’ is to completely disregard the current reality.
BTW, I wonder if europeans who come over to visit america end up going back and try to convert others to watch american football?
I think its unlikely, I once showed a NFL game to a italian relative of a friend and he laughed at the sport, then after 10 minutes got bored and started looking for something interesting to do…I don’t think he’ll be taking any NFL merchendise back home. NFL should make cool scarves though.
#456 It is?
Oh yeah, they play with a discarded skull.
#523 “Nevertheless, the MLS has an average attendance equal to the NHL and just slightly below the NBA.”
Did you ever think to compare the buying power or the incomes of those fans, on per capita basis? LOL!!! MLS is a bunch of illegal aliens mostly, at least the one game I went to.
How many Englishmen even play on Arsenal? The EPL is joke as England is also becoming fast. In 100 years, kids will barely even know Churchill’s name or who he even was, but Adolf Hitler will never die, and that’s just the honest truth like it or not.
SO TRUE. I´m currently abroad (hahaha another thing white people like) and found myself doing a majority of these things (ex: scarf, pledging to remain a loyal fan once my time here has expired). You caught me. Oh well, if you can´t laugh at yourself, someone else will do it for you. Keep up the good work!
To the “Anonymous” poster who said………
Chelsea is jew. Loser.
Get a clue. Sucker.
I know more about this “WEST LONDON CLUB” than you obviously think you do ya MORON. I have supported them for more than 30 years and live nearby.
Chelsea have a Russian owner at present and he has put Avram Grant (an Israeli and his friend) in charge after sacking Jose Mourhino (Portuguese) aka “The Special One” last year. Who in his 3 years in charge won us 6 trophies including 2 EPL titles the first one of which we won by a mile over Man U,Arsenal and Liverpool setting records for biggest EPL points total,least goals conceded to name a couple.
We also beat Liverpool and Arsenal in the Carling Cup,Man U in the F.A Cup.
Before Roman Abramovich became the owner Ken Bates (English) was in charge with Claudio Ranieri (Italian) as manager.
Chelsea’s supporters have never been linked as a predominantly jewish following (there may be some among us as there would be among most London clubs).
To say that “Chelsea is jew” shows that you haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.
The EPL club that has ALWAYS had a Jewish link is Tottenham Hotspur (North London and Chelsea’s hated rivals) and are known to their rivals as “Yids” (derogatory term for Jew). They have a large jewish following due to their location (Golders Green and Stamford Hill are VERY jewish areas in North London) and Daniel Levy the chairman is Jewish and Alan Sugar (owner of Amstrad) was formerly the chairman.
So you complete ignoramous…get your facts straight.
Golders Green is nowhere near Stamford Hill or Tottenham.
I would hardly call Spurs and Chelsea “hated rivals.” Sure, we hate Chelsea, but everyone does. Our “hated rivals” are Arsenal. Chelsea are a (previously) second-rate club that won the lottery when they were bought out by a Russian billionaire criminal.
I guess Fulham should be your “hated rivals,” but no one really hates Fulham, do they?
As far as the Jewish thing is concerned, I would wager that the percentage of Spurs supporters who are Jewish is not really much higher than most other major clubs these days. The demographics in Tottenham have changed quite a bit since days gone by. Stamford Hill hasn’t changed… but if you’ve ever been to Stamford Hill, you’d know that football is not high on the list of priorities!
That said, it’s certainly not an issue for anyone. People call us “Yids,” and I guess we call ourselves that (or some of us do).
But you can call us League Cup winners!
Hmmmm…..last time i checked there was no “S” in FIFA?? Football is football……and who made the comment about not wanting to watch people pointlessly running around? at least they do run around….in American Football the game never gets going. stop. start. stop. start. It takes about 12 hours just to play one game ha ha ha. love it. dont even get me started on all the padding they wear….real men?? pfffrrt. dont make me laugh. ever considered rugby??
Wycombe Wanderers are not a London team….they are the only Wycombe team….come on the “chair boys”!!!
Queens Park Rangers play at Loftus Road……there is no need for the extra “park”….
Love the blog, keep it up
Uhh . . Eddie Johnson is American, plays for Fulham, and is a black dude. Boom, end of story.
One thing you forgot, is that aside from the cool scarves, white people really like to sing songs.
We are Fulham
We are Fulham
We are Fulham
FFC
We are Fulham
Super Fulham
We are Fulham
FUCK CHELSEA
I dont like soccer.
Spurs Supporter…Golders Green and Stamford Hill are in NL as is Tottenscum you plank, and yes it’s true that Arsenal are your biggest Rivals but as you know Chelsea/Spuds fixture is always hotly contested and we HATE to lose to you more than any we would most other clubs.
Also the clubs “firms” love to have a tear up at these games.
As for history it was West Ham that we previously hated but things change.
BTW congrats on your CC win over us……your second minor cup in 9 years.LOL
That should keep you lot of underachievers happy for the next 9 years or so…he he he.
This is the most ignorant bullshit post ever. Soccer has more white fans than any other sport. This is a fact, not an opinion.
Hate soccer. Hate it. Boring. More boring than baseball.
Flame away, bitches.
my white black history teacher played and coached soccer.
I’m white and I liked soccer since playing as a kid. Was in Barcelona when they won the 06 Champion’s League. Being in there that night would make anyone a soccer fan…
#529 “ignoramous…..g-g-g-get your f-f-f-facts straight”
LOL!!! You and I acknowledge the same set of facts!
you wrote: “Chelsea have a Russian-jew owner at present and he has put Avram Grant (an Israeli and his friend) in charge.”
Where’s the confusion? Chelsea = jew
Buddy, you are in denial of your own facts!
The EPL isn’t even English anymore, and that’s why Enlgand’s national team is being squeezed dry and killed off. Why would the Chelsea jews care about England or the English anyway? or developing talent at home? or the country’s national team?
They don’t. Wake up buddy.
This post is so dead on! I’m white, educated upper middle class and I LOVE SOCCER. I watch Fox Soccer Channel for the English, Italian and Argentina leagues as well as MSL and MISL. I don;t pretend to have a favorite team though. Part of it I guess is that liking soccer and hating football is my contrarian nature, and not being being like Joe Sixpack. Football reminds me of cheap beer and pickup trucks.
Golders Green is northwest London, you moron. It’s closer to Holloway than Tottenham.
You probably live in Essex anyway.
Only in the former colonies (United States) would a player with as much finesse and talent as Kaka or Lionel Messi be called a “sissy”, and a large parolee in 30 kg of armour and a retard helmet be called a “real man”.
American football is a stupid “sport”. Fitting for a stupid country.
#530 “Russian criminal” (Chelsea owner)
Stop calling these crooked kikes “Russian”!! Most of these a-holes fled like cockroaches to the UK or israel. I have no idea why the UK harbors them, or accepts them.
I think the WASP English upper classes have so inter-bred with the Yids over the last 400 years that they have lost all instinct of what it means to be “English” and upstanding. The EPL sucks, it isn’t even English, and Arsenal is the worst of this decay.
#539 Anonymous Ignoramous……..SW6 is not and has never been part of Israel.
Chelsea may at present have a jewish owner and manager but that does not make it a jewish club you mutt.
As for English footie..Lampard,Terry,A Cole,J Cole,Bridge,Wright-Phillips are all Chelsea players who are also England internationals so what drugs are you currently on? Englands football problems are deeper than the perceived lack of quality players.Blame the F.A suits and their complete lack of football knowledge and putting moneymaking before the game for our lack of achievement.
There’s no chance i would agree with you as you are an inbred anti-semite (are you German?).
As for Spuds Supporter….North/Northwest? Who gives a f*ck?
My original point was that Spurs are the club that are linked with Jewish support and that there is a big Jewish community not a million miles from the club.
And you can include East Finchley as another place with a Jewish community which is also not so far away from Spurs..
For your info i have never lived in Essex and like a lot of genuine supporters i have a geographical connection to my club.
Fair enough. I was just pointing out that your original comment that “They have a large jewish following due to their location (Golders Green and Stamford Hill are VERY jewish areas in North London)” was not accurate. (At least the Golders Green part).
I would argue that I, too, have a geographical connection with Spurs (I live in Stoke Newington N16). But this area is kind of in a no-man’s land between Arsenal and Spurs. Either way, I can appreciate anyone who supports their local club… not just whatever club is fashionable or doing well at a given time.
You forgot about the cult of children’s soccer that white people put their kids through. A huge class of white parents are ‘soccer moms and soccer dads’ whereby they drive around whole teams of kids in uniforms to get more points from other parents. They also load their bumpers with stickers from the soccer teams. Then they spend every weekend of their adult life with children at a soccer game or two in their Patagonia fleece jackets:)
FC GRONINGEN!!
#544 Gianfranco: “As for English footie..Lampard,Terry,A Cole,J Cole,Bridge,Wright-Phillips are all Chelsea players who are also England internationals so what drugs are you currently on? Englands football problems are deeper than the perceived lack of quality players.”
You don’t see the big picture at all. The English national team LOSES, but Italy’s WINS the World Cup. Serie A is Italian, and EPL is anti-English. Your foreign owners will accelerate the issue. Sepp Blatter agrees with this. Perhaps you could consider a point-of-view different than yours?
http://castefootball.us/viewarticle.asp?sportID=8&teamID=0&ID=23264
Why does the English national team suck? The EPL is why.
“Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is wrong to say he does not care about the national team,” Blatter wrote in the article. “When you work in a different country you must also care about that country’s national team – football must be considered as a whole. I would also point out that there is no European law that says you must play with 11 foreign players.”
The situation in England, with a weak national team and club soccer based on a mass of foreign players, contrasts with Europe’s other top soccer powers – Italy, Germany, and Spain. All these countries have strong national teams in the European Championship Finals and club sides that use a far higher proportion of native players, making the connection between strong indigenous club soccer and a strong national team obvious.
PS Your whiny slurs are meaningless, as the Semites/Yids are more “inbred” than any people there are! LOL!!!!
One of the favourite myths of the multiculturalists is that negative behaviour by blacks is caused by deprivation. Just take away the poverty, ‘discrimination,’ and ‘racial injustice’ and – BEHOLD! – those who would otherwise become thugs, ‘gangstas,’ or thieves will be transformed into upright pillars of the community.
Because of the vast amounts of money that sport makes available to those with talent, it should provide countless test cases for this theory. Here in the UK, the latest in a long line of such cases hit our newspapers on March 9, when it was reported that two black Southampton players, each earning thousands of pounds a week, had rifled through the handbags of minimum-wage barmaids at a top Portsmouth nightspot, stealing cash and mobile phones.
Pictures published in the Sunday Mirror newspaper show CCTV stills of £8,000-a-week Bradley Wright-Phillips, the son of former England international and present-day BBC pundit Ian Wright, laughing as his team-mate £5,000-a-week Nathan Dyer and three friends go through the pockets, bags, and purses of girls earning just £5 an hour at Portsmouth’s Bar Bluu Club. The thieves then reportedly left the club by a private back door with three mobile phones, £145 in cash, and some stolen cigarettes.
“I work for just over the minimum wage,” barmaid Emma Parker told reporters. “I can’t believe they would have the cheek to steal from someone like me. They have obviously done it for kicks because they don’t need the money. They are treated like heroes but this shows they are actually scumbags.”
The incident happened after Wright-Phillips, 22, and Dyer, 20, visited the club for a free VIP night. Leaving at around 3am on February 27, they went towards a back door to avoid crowds, and entered an unlocked staff room where they saw the chance to supplement their weekly wage packets.
Last year we had an even more absurd example when another Black player, Portsmouth’s full-back Glen Johnson, then on loan from Chelsea, was caught trying to steal a toilet seat from a home fittings store.
Johnson, who was recalled to the England international squad this year, was spotted putting a toilet seat into a box with a cheaper price tag. He also hid a set of taps underneath a sink at the checkout to avoid paying for them. After being caught, he received an £80 on-the-spot fine, hardly a fitting punishment when you earn what Johnson reportedly earns – £30,000 a week!
November 29 2007 — Former South African cricketer Pat Symcox and Dutch sports journalist Van Nijnatten of the Algemeen Dagblad daily in the Netherlands both have warned that ‘South Africa was far too dangerous to hold the World Cup 2010 in’.
545 Spurs Supporter….i was only trying to explain to the Anon poster that his view that Chelsea was in his words..
“Chelsea is jew. Loser.” showed his ignorance of the club and it’s fans and history. And that in fact Tottenham had more of an affinity to that section of society.
I don’t just grab my opinion from “thin air” as not only do i work in NL (for the last 18 years now, Palmers green,Edmonton) but also ALL my male in-laws are THFC season ticket holders and a lot of our friends. Also my wife has worked for 2 companies over the last 10 years that had a large contingent of jewish folk who also followed Spurs.
What percentage there are versus other clubs i don’t know.
548 Anonymous…….
When the Italian league was the best in the world it also had a high percentage of “foreigners” but the national side was still a force.
I accept that it can’t be good that the EPL has so many but i maintain that our problems are not only because of this.
It pains me to say it (as i am a Fiercely Proud Englishman) that just maybe….we are not as good as we think we are.
After all, this mass influx only really got going after the EPL was formed and prior to that we were just as bad.
We have to stop looking for excuses and tackle this where there is real concern….the FA and all the non-football moneymen.
As for anything Sepp Blatter has to say, i reckon that he is one of the biggest crooks in the game. The sooner he is gone the better. Platini may be the one to put the game first.
The end note. How very gracious of you:)
Right now, I like Aston Villa 1) Because they have a cool scarf, which I bought on eBay and 2) because Amy Winehouse wears an Aston Villa badge on her necklace. Man United has a cool scarf, which I also own, but that’s been done to death …
I actually played, and was pretty-darned good at it too!
The cool thing about being white is we can take a joke.
Blacks have no sense of irony whatsoever. Which is why they will never be viewed as equals.
Finally one that does not pertain to me. I hate soccer and don’t understand why anyone cares about it when we have football and basketball. Brett Farve will be hotter than David Beckham any day due to his manliness and David Beckhams metrosexuality.
yes
the white people love their sports on television
to love soccer is to play soccer
to love sports is to play sports
if you watch sports on television
you are into television
what is your favorite television?
I like the Sony!
#551 “As for anything Sepp Blatter has to say, i reckon that he is one of the biggest crooks in the game. ”
care to back that up with anything specific?
“It pains me to say it (as i am a Fiercely Proud Englishman) that just maybe….we are not as good as we think we are.”
PS If that’s all you have to say about the info in those posts, then you don’t see the big picture, and are a cog in the caste and money system. It pains me to run into this kind of thought. Future generations of English will curse your generation as the biggest sellouts of all time.
Ouch! Okay this one hurts. I’ve never played soccer, I rarely watch soccer and yet I’ve bought four or five European soccer jerseys for my 3-year-old son, thus bringing together 3 things white people like– Europe, the idea of soccer, and hip child accessories.
558 Anonymous
#551 “As for anything Sepp Blatter has to say, i reckon that he is one of the biggest crooks in the game. ”
care to back that up with anything specific?
I remember seeing a expose on African FA’s corrupt leadership (something to do with tickets/money etc) and how Blatter was fully aware of wrongdoing but declined to talk/do anything about it.
Vague i know but i can’t be arsed to google it.
Also, Blatters reluctance for goalline tech to prove if the ball has crossed the line. Why? Is it so that match fixing (plenty of that has been documented) can continue unabated?
That’s the best i can do for now. But i have heard that he also has webbed feet,eyebrows that meet and a suspicious squinty eye!!
543 Anonymous
#530 “Russian criminal” (Chelsea owner)
care to back that up with anything specific?
PS If that’s all you have to say about the info in those posts etc etc etc………..
I thought it was an interesting piece and Georges Freche’s comments about the French national team are justified.
I do understand where you are coming from……..judging by that website.
Multiculturalism, diversity, all unworkable bollox but our leaders will persist no matter what you say and brand us racists to crush our arguments and concerns.
Further proof that Chelsea supporters are racists.
You can put quotes are football all you want, but that’s is its name, and people in North America should stop with that BS time-wasting sport they call football, and drop the word soccer completely from their lexicon.
It’s football, it’s a ball you move with your foot! Call it that!
The US needs to get in line with what the rest of the world does.
Liverpool!
The title should be “American’s Idea of Soccer”. The United States is one of a select few countries in the world where real football is not the number one sport. The World Cup is the most watched event in the world and always will be. More white people watch and support football teams than any other sport. I do agree with the statements if they were directed towards white American’s only.
NFL is called football because its a game where you run with your feet WITH a ball. simple as that.
lucky we dont call soccer Kickball.
The Brits and Aussies have also been known to call it Soccer as well.
I live in Europe and for all of those Whities out there who think it is cool to wear a soccer team scarf, I have some news for you: sporting your team’s soccer jersey or scarf, save at an actual sporting event, is incredibly red neck and “working class”.
Seriously, it is not something you see from a person with a high school diploma anywhere across the UK or the Continent. I suppose that would be kind of like someone wearing a Yankees’ ring or Eagles’ jersey.
BTW, I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!! Helps me keep in touch with my paler roots on the other side.
561 adam
“Further proof that Chelsea supporters are racists.”
Shut up you mug and read my post properly.
Zola-
“Multiculturalism, diversity, all unworkable bollox but our leaders will persist no matter what you say and brand us racists to crush our arguments and concerns.”
Yeah, prick. You’re not a racist, huh? If you’re not a racist, then you’re a fucking idiot who cannot format a message so it doesn’t look like those are his comments.
Fuck off back to Chelsea or Fulham or wherever you claim to be from. I’m sure you’ve ALWAYS supported Chelsea, too. Just like everyone else, who will all be Man U or Arsenal or Liverpool supporters after Chelsea win fuck all this season (and probably next season as well).
You guys STILL don’t get it.
The “racists” are the anti-English, the non-English that are running your teams and league!!!!
WTF?
Why are the EPL fans so stupid????!!!!!!!!
569 adam
“Fuck off back to Chelsea or Fulham or wherever you claim to be from. I’m sure you’ve ALWAYS supported Chelsea, too. Just like everyone else, who will all be Man U or Arsenal or Liverpool supporters after Chelsea win fuck all this season (and probably next season as well).”
Very articulate….:-)
I went through enough years where CFC won nothing,got relegated and came close to going out of business and if they win nothing this year it won’t change my support for them.
“Yeah, prick. You’re not a racist, huh? If you’re not a racist, then you’re a fucking idiot who cannot format a message so it doesn’t look like those are his comments.”
Why would i need to format my message…..just because i don’t believe in the concept of diversity and multiculturalism.
Maybe they aren’t the best ways to integrate people.
And there you go…just another gobshite shouting RACIST as if this makes other peoples beliefs invalid.
This is a great site, but it could use a button for reporting racially offensive comments.
Gianfranco Zola,
wtf? Some ageing nazi, apparently posting from the USA, comes on baiting English footie fans with the vilest racism and after several reasonable posts you give him a free ride? How do you oppose diversity but support integration? You do need to be clearer if you don’t want to be lumped in with this nutjob, but I might advise you have complex views on the various subjects “anonymous” raises, best discussed elsewhere.
Try panaryan.com, they love that kind of stuff. Loads more “anonymouses” there.
This is a pro white site. what else would you expect?
You’re either kidding or stupid.
Dom: I’ve read tons of anti-White racist comments on this blog.
This attracts alot of non-white bigots that think they have insight or something.
Don’t let them bother you, censorship is for the intolerant types.
Dom: by the way, your hostility seems to indicate that you might be an anti-White racist and bigot. Are you?
No, I’m an anti-white-racist, not anti-white. I don’t know if you’re too stupid to understand that this site is satire or if you’re just trolling, but I know I don’t like you.
Dom: I think you are stupid. You cannot just call people you disagree with or whose opinions you hate, slurs and names.
If you lack critical reasoning skills when critiquing others ideas and thoughts, then don’t post. It shows ignorance to simply use epithets.
You can say you’re not anti-White, but I think you are, and I don’t like that.
Fuck off, I am a white american that plays and enjoys talking about soccer. I know my history and I have been playing soccer since I was 5. I didn’t study abroad in Europe, I don’t own any of those lame ass scarves and you obviously don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.
Anonymous,
Of course I can call you stupid. Same as you can call anyone who disagrees with your stupid racist opinions “anti-white”, but more valid. Given your self-evidently nasty agenda I don’t even have to support myself, see? I don’t want a conversation with you.
I think this blog would be better titled “What rich white people like.”
That’s good Dom. Take your trolling elsewhere.
Not everyone in life will agree with you, have you never figured this out? Learn to respect others, and diverse opinions, and you’ll have less hostility in your life. You won’t be able to change everyone.
572 Dom
Gianfranco Zola,
“wtf? Some ageing nazi, apparently posting from the USA, comes on baiting English footie fans with the vilest racism and after several reasonable posts you give him a free ride?”
I had Anon sussed pretty quickly…i did ask if he was anti-jewish.As for the free ride…what can i say?Very stupid of me.
As for my views on diversity/multiculturalism….
to put it simply, i’ve only seen it work to show people their differences (which can divide people) and not that basically we are all the same. Just my opinion…no-one has to agree with me.
“I do understand where you are coming from……..judging by that website.”
This comment was my attempt at being sarcastic. I obviously should have been clearer.
No offence…accept my apologies.
Anonymous,
“Learn to respect others…”
Quite, and you might get more respect from me. Racist idiot.
Gianfranco Zola,
No offence meant and no worries.
Dom, you simply hate someone that has a different point-of-view than yours! I don recall that anyone was even speaking to you in the first place.
If you cannot add something constructive to what someone else says, then don’t post here. Name-calling and using slurs is really quite weak, the refuge of the low intellectual.
Either address my points in earnest, or don’t engage with me at all. Whatever you do, stop the names.
“Racist” (again)?
1) “It takes one to know one.”
2) Whoever uses that term on others is the true racist.
That’s you Dom.
Let’s see if “Dom” is capable of thinking critically, respecting others POV, can refrain from slurs, etc.
Dom: Why do you think the English national team is failing?
Joseph Lewis, owner of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (that’s the Yid- team as JohnnyFrank has told us eariler), was owner of 10% of Bear Stearns.
He bought in at $100 per share, and today it’s being sold for $2 per share. Big trouble for him. Lost over $1 billion.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a.kwMtvHsOL0&refer=home
Look here…
This site is mediocre at best. It is mildly entertaining. Half of the items on this list are garbage. The effort and thought put into this list is pretty embarrassing.
if you want some actual funny entertainment/blog/writing/insightful/great stuff
http://www.garbarrassing.com
go for it.
I’m suspicious of comment 3. “cultural hegemony” seems like a term especially likely to be used by whitey
I’m an hispanic male, and I lived a few years in South America, which helped me discover soccer (real football). and yes I play and extremely well thank you.
now any white person who is clueless about soccer and goes to England and watches a live game will be impressed with the atmosphere. The only fans that die-hard are college football fans.
http://www.poeticmotherlover.com
Note to any white person visiting England – don’t say you love Manchester Utd.
Only the fans of Manchester Utd. love Manchester Utd. – everyone else hates them with rabid passion. Say you love any other team and you will be much more likely to elicit a favourable response (or at least a neutral one).
I recommend Newcastle Utd. (respected, but completely unthreatening team).
It’s called football you idiots learn to speak English!
“One of the guys had the name of Caldwell on the back of his Jersey so I went to talk to him. I figured if he paid extra for the name, he probably knows the game.”
As a bhoy of twenty-five years and counting, all I can say is that I wish Caldwell knew a bit more about the game too. Maybe then we wouldn’t give up two crappy goals to Barca and all the part-time Barca fans here in the US wouldn’t have so much to crow about.
“It’s called football you idiots learn to speak English!”
In fact, “soccer” is an English (remember them? They invented the game!) term, not an American one. It used to be in widespread use in the British media. It’s a contraction of “association” and was used to distinguish the game from Rugby Football. Association Football is still the game’s official name in the UK.
So no, he doesn’t need to “learn to speak English”; he already is.
I never watched soccer in my life back home (in Canada). Then, I moved to Japan and started following J-League. Then, it was off to Australia and I kept up with the A-League. Now, I’m living in Korea and I’m still watching (K-League) matches… The biggest change this has had on my life is I now use words like “pitch” and “match”. Ha!
football is the people’s sport!! perhaps even the way to revolution…
If they came back from Europe and say they like Manchester United, feel free to hit them. It’s like liking the Yankees. They just picked a team that they heard of and said they like it. For bonus fun, ask the name of one of the midfielders or defenders. Only a fan knows, a faker just knows the famous strikers.
I fell in love with soccer during the 2006 World Cup. It is the best sport ever!!!!!!! The guys are super hot, hotter than the dudes in any other sport! The game isn’t too, it’s easy to follow, the uniforms show off their awesome bods instead of hiding them behind bulky pads and sometimes when one of them makes a great play or scores an important role they RIP OFF THEIR SHIRTS!!!!!!! Cristiano Ronaldo always takes his shirt off!!!!!!! I can “talk soccer” forever. I live for hot guys!
omg…!!!!! totally. i was totally “into soccer” after my study abroad in Italy. Wow. I’m a white person stereotype. Damn.
Most whites are white trash. They dont even live in the cities . Most whites leave in the outskirts of cites in trailer courts.
Heh soccer/football sucks. I’d rather watch lawn bowling.
There are lots of white soccer fans who genuinely pull for a team. Who cares why or if it has to do with some girl they banged in their clubs hometown while on summer vacation in college. Id rather talk soccer with a fellow fan then another white person who is a football fan who claims to be a New England Patriots fan. Atleast white soccer fans stick with their team. The other sports is full of bandwagon jumpers and they know less about their teams then the soccer fan.
Stupid post.
Soccer is the whitebread thing au courant to “play” at, but the uppercrusties’ children are tilting toward rugby ( a much “whiter” sport, Jonah Lomu notwithstanding) when it comes to spectating.
For playing, everyone knows the elite uppercrusties prefer that ivory of ivyish league sports, lacrosse (see “Duke”).
People just love football (soccer) because they love it.
it is the worlds greatest game! I came to the game later in life as a result of my kids playing it since they were 5, but that does not mean I love it any less.
I love Chelsea FC because John Terry and Joe Cole are my favorite players and Chelsea are the first English team I ever saw play a few years ago in an exhibition in D.C.
I have not made it to London (yet) but when I go I will head straight to Stamford Bridge.
Come on you Blues!
White people are funny!
I know because I are one.
Black folks are a hoot as well.
Just take a stroll down the main boulevard in Anacostia some balmy spring evening, you’ll see what I mean.
This site is hillarious, all it lists is stupid yuppy crap. Soccer is a lame sport. White people, in America at least, don’t like soccer. Well, maybe some do, but thats probably because either they or their kid couldn’t make the football team.
You want to know what sports white people really like:
Football
Hockey
Baseball
Motocross
NASCAR
Skating
BMX
Surfing
Snowboarding/Skiing
Paintball
Not F’ing soccer
As a serious soccer fan here in America (Los Angeles Galaxy fan since 1996) I applaud you for putting up a link to Major League Soccer! Bravo!
What about those who love and play the game or attended schools so small they could not “suit up” for American football. American football is rough but come on, you wear pads. Many of us played when shin guards were worn by catchers only and there was no such thing as canceling a game because of weather. Lots of “gum flapping” in #80. I’d rather watch soccer than most any popular TV sport, even if its in another language. The game speaks for itself and I assume you were jockless as a lad…? No offense intended…how many white people actually drive an audi or volvo anyway…?
SOCCER?!?
FUCK THAT SHIT!!!
NFL FOREVER!!!
In the USA soccer is a game for kids with no talent. All they have to be able to do is run and kick a ball. Kids with talent are playing baseball.
This should be a “stuff americans like”
I’m French and we think Americans playing soccer are hilarious xD
you’re all talking about going to london and falling for manchester utd —-> people in london hate manchester united
good thing u said that thing about european, because we do LOVE football, more that you could ever imagine.
fuck, every of u fucking piece of shit talking like that make me understand that americans are sooooo different from every other white people on earth
you don’t get the point of sport, you just want a “show” something u can drink a beer in front
NFL ?? fucking pussies, at least play rubgy if you want some contact
While having grown up with and around soccer my entire life by way of my ethnic background (Irish Catholic) in metropolitan New York City – it stands to reason that a couple of factors are lost on me. I never picked up on ‘fans’ enjoying soccer becuase it was fashionable. Frankly soccer was either liked because it was part of our hometown’s subculture or hated by people who thought soccer was for fruits and fairies. The latter never so much bothered me, because I grew up liking other sports as well. I almost embrace the fact that not everyone likes it – I can walk around signing offensive songs and no one has a clue. There are enough fans out there that you can get to a bar for the big matches and Finals and be elbow to elbow and really get that good feeling. I don’t know if that’s the kind of soccer that’s being referenced in the article; the kind of soccer I’ve been exposed to. I think a more important question to ask with regards to sports and white people is – why do white people love New England sports teams so much? How did the Red Sox become America’s darling? They were the most comical losers in baseball history for nearly 100 years and do they honestly beleive that becuase they’ve had the better of the Yankees for roughly the past five that they are some how defenders of the free world? You got to be kidding me. Thank God the GIANTS set Boston right. I walk around Atlanta where I live now, and everywhere I go I get asked ‘OMG what part of Boston are you from?” People hear an accent and they immediately think you must be from Boston. Because they WANT you to be from Boston. Why? Because white people love it. Fuck that – LET’S GO YANK-EES!! “Oo, ah, up the ‘RA, say, “Oo ah up the ‘RA!!” ‘MON THE HOOPS
Please note, Europeans are not into soccer.
We are into football.
A fake “soccer” fan is easier to spot than a toupee.
But what really gets me is that every time someone mentions “soccer” all the simpletons come out defending their beloved baseball and American football as if they would feel threatened by something. Comparing “soccer” to baseball or A. football is pointless, as it is a completely different sport played by completely different types of athletes watched by completely different types of fans.
By the way, only these simpletons can call a 400 lbs fat ass offensive lineman and 250 lbs fat ass shortstop an athlete in the first place.
Simpson
Making fun of the fans and the athletes of other “lesser” sports is a sure sign that you’ve achieved a higher level of whiteness than the average white person. How’s that Saab treating you?
OK, I’m an actual American soccer fan (after football and hockey) and some things you guys should know:
1. According to the Sporting Goods Marketing Association, more American kids age 6-17 play soccer than play baseball.
2. Basketball is number 1, in case you wondered.
3. Loving Man U after visiting London exposes a BS soccer fan – the London teams are Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and West Ham.
4. US soccer is inferior (MLS) because it has so much more competition than say, Europe. That is, we have super-established leagues in other sports – baseball, hockey, football, etc.
5. What soccer enthusiasts don’t want to admit is that is takes a generation to change things. In the US we just got to the point where there are adults who attend soccer games because they actually played as kids. We also need to “americanize” the game. It’s a FIELD, not a PITCH!!
6. Baseball is probably dying in the same way. I have never seen any kids playing baseball in my neighborhood. There not outside much at all but when they are its soccer and street hockey (or skateboarding).
7. Soccer in America will probably never be what it is in Europe. Here we have HS and colleges that have sports teams. There they have schools focuses on academics with “clubs” outside the schools. The result is that England has FIVE DIVISIONS of professional soccer clubs – I think over 100 teams. No sport in America has that many. Italy has 4 professional leagues with even more “semi-pro” leagues – over 300 teams. And we worry about over-expansion in sports with 30 teams!!!!
Ok, enough for now. Gotta get back to the NCAAs
Soccer is a yawn. If my kids want to play it I will sign them up but I am not going to encourage it. Baseball in the summer and/or hockey in the winter.
Soccer is loved by kids who grew up playing it and didn’t switch to football, or basketball, or whatever else, which is a decent sized segment of the US.
Anti-American socialist tree-huggers take up supporting soccer. Usually in the form of Manchester United, Barcelona, or AC Milan – teams that even a down’s kid from Wyoming has heard of, as a way to show that they like an international sport, not a stupid American sport. These same muppets usually also support England or Brazil every world cup, instead of say, their country of birth.
While I rather enjoy this list, it really only applies to educated/rich lefties. Red-necks and republicans fit almost none of these categories. In any case, go gunners.
I tell you what’s white, constantly pointing out how this blog doesn’t apply to all white people. We get it people, it doesn’t take an advanced degree in humanities to understand that.
Soccer. The only sport in the world that celebrates “ALMOST” doing something.
This is why America is the global hegemon, and the rest, fading empires or never weres, never will bes. We play football. People win.
Amazing. This guy is SOOO right.
Eirinn go Brach:
Marrying a mestizo is a sure sign that you’ve achieved a lesser level of whiteness than the average white person.
Does it count if you’re white but you’ve stood on numerous English 3rd-division terraces in the freezing cold watching even colder players tromp around on the pitch with your damned obsessed English boyfriend. Or gotten horribily drunk with a bunch of Portuguese fans in Newark after they made it through to the finals in the World Cup? I’m pretty sure you get a pass, too, if you understand the offside rule.
Well she’s not a mestizo but thanks for playing. I’m proud to be the wrong type of white person because you lilly white people are boring.
I’m just waiting for someone to argue with an “American Football” fan about which name makes more sense: “Football” or “Soccer”.
I play in a band with 4 other guys. Three of us play soccer and the other two play “football” Now whenever one of us soccer players finds a soccer jersey thats says “Football”, we buy it and wear it to band practice. Then one of the “football” players will try to explain to us how american “football” makes more sense that the rest of the world’s “football”. Its HILARIOUS!!!
But seriously, which makes more sense? Let’s see: American “Football”: You throw the ball with your hands, you run with the ball in your hands, you catch the ball with your hands and every few minutes, you either punt the ball or kick a field goal/extra point. Then there’s the Rest of the World “Football: You pass the ball with your feet, you dribble with you feet, you shoot (most of the time) with your feet and every once in a while, you throw the ball in from the sideline, or the keeper catches the ball.
That would be like calling “soccer” “handball”! it makes no sense! neither does calling “football”, “football”! They should call it handball or something.
But, the blogger does make sense. Many soccer “fans” have never been to a match in their life and probably could never name any team for mexico, brazil, spain, france, etc.
I’m a white American. I saw Fulham play Blackburn at Craven Cottage in 2000 when they were both in the former first division (now the League Championship). It’s friggin impossible to see games from the bigger teams in the Premier League unless you know someone. I remember when Prime Sports Network (eventually became Fox) used to show Bundesliga highlights. The first game I can remember watching was Cameroon’s 1 – 0 upset of Argentina in the 1990 World Cup in Italy. I have been a Liverpool fan ever since I saw the 4 – 3 94 – 95 classic between them and Newcastle (Fowler’s second being my favorite). I love to play in the hole behind the strikers. I’d rather be the one with the cutting pass than the goal scorer. Cristiano Ronaldo (a badass he may be) is a greasy Portuguido. American football… the five seconds the play happens is cool, but then you have to watch them all waddle back to the huddle while Madden blathers on. If aliens from the other side of the milky way landed on earth today and they wanted to know what game earthlings like the most….
I humbly submit this as my soccer fan credentials to the powers that be.
I am a 50 year old, right-wing, upper-middle class native born american who works in the media business, listens to Limbaugh every day, reads every right-wing blog he can get his hands on, thinks Obama is a certified racist who will get creamed in the general election (but will get nominated despite Hillary’s best efforts), loves college football, watches NFL, basketball and hockey in the playoffs, golfs fanatically, likes about any type of ethnic cuisine (lately I’ve been big on south American cooking, especially Argentine) and….am an absolute soccer/futbol fanatic…
to the point that I have been to 2 world cups (including the last one in Germany), the USA/MEX game in Mexico City…and would prefer to watch any USA game over the first round of the NCAA’s, like I did today…and may go to England to watch the USA/ENG game at the end of may….
Who do I root for? The USA first and foremost; LA Galaxy (before Beckham-started going to games when they opened up the HDC in Carson, the best place in LA to watch ANY sport); any Euro club team that hires Americans (the better to see us win a WC before I die)…and I root against Mexico (despite the fact that my wife was born and raised there) and for anyteam they play against (my wife didn’t talk to me for a week when I rooted for the hated Argies against Mexico 🙂 )…in fact, the two teams in sports (the Boston Celtics and Mexico’s national team) both wear green…which makes it real hard to find an item of clothes to wear on St Patricks Day!
I guess this makes me a walking contradiction in terms in terms of being a certified white man….
Soccer/Futbol is ok for a white person to claim an alliance with but… The ultimate white trendy sport is RUGBY UNION. I could rattle on about its “white” roots but it is a great sport to sit at a dinner party mentioning rugby plays and player positions. Ruck, Scrum, Pace and of course the hooker, winger, front pack. See how cool is that! Let alone tournaments, 6 Nations, 14 Nations, Hieneken Cup. It is a non-stop sport, when there is an injury play does not stop as long as the injury is not in the way of play. Oh the ulitmate the number of refs, 3. That is it 3, the main ref. is on the field with 30 men, 15 a side. No specific player for a particular play 15 men usually with a max of about 8 replacement per game, maybe.
RUGBY
You East Coast Liberals are a different species. I have never met a single white American soccer fan in my life, and I’m over 50.
And out here in the heartland, I doubt that, even if one existed, they would be willing to admit it. As a sport, futbol is a loser on so many levels. Boring.
I hate soccer and I’m from the East Cost.
The column is overall white on. But there are a few of us who enjoy soccer simply because it is so un-white in many ways. And because all other American sports really suck.
Alot of humorless stuffy types seem to be pissed off by your blog. Get over it, you losers. Go back to your art classes if you can’t take a joke.
David, you forget one thing about Rugby Union: in a number of it’s major countries it is associated with the snooty upper classes (england, france, australia,argentina) or with the white oppressors (south Africa and the protestants in Ireland), and is therefore not a game of the people (great game to watch BTW, especially in the WC)…
In contrast, it’s sibling Rugby League (different rules) was and is the workingmans game in it’s hotbeds of Australia and parts of northern England…
I do admit as a right-wing soccer fanatic I keep a low profile on it…easier to fly below the radar.
I also agree with Chris that the boring nature of other American sports (except college football) is one reason my TV is turned to soccer…the best part of it is that you can watch live soccer games on Saturday at 7AM or so, then switch to that day’s college football without missing a beat!
As for entertainment value-of the worlds major leagues, England and Spain are the best to watch, Italy is ugly…MLS is improving and the addition of international tournaments and changes in playoff rules to keep teams from half-assing their way through games help keep interest in the doldrums of the long hot summer… when MLS teams play teams from south of the border, the intensity level goes way up…
Colin-remember that AC Milan is owned by Italian prime minister Berlusconi, a big-time right-winger
Agree that the average American would think all soccer teams are for commies, though…
Hey New York Yankee, it’s funny how a one letter change in a team’s name makes a team go from gods to the devil…
I was at a funeral for a buddy of mine’s dad-they were originally from Glasgow, with accents and all, and were/are still Celtic FC fanatics…but when their cousin came walking in the room in a Boston Celtic t-shirt, the boos came cascading from the rafters….the catch here was that this family moved to LA and became equally fanatic about the Lakers….and the Celtics are still the devil even though they haven’t played in the playoffs for a long time (let’s hope this year!)
Damn! I got busted on this just last week. In my defense, it’s hard to get into soccer when you don’t own a T.V.
Frank – if we want to get into the Right wings roots in football, there is Lazio and their right wing history and Ultra’s which are committed fascists – I believe Lazio was Mussolini’s team.
Bayern Munich players pop off with uber racist comments and it only seems to improve their status – I actually lived in Germany and witnessed some monkey chanting, something I have never seen in the US.
Real Madrid was Franco’s team.
Liverpool is co-owned by a big Bush backer. Plenty of right wing links to football.
You are a walking contradiction or strangely open-minded.
I love how people take swipes at the Serie A. They must be doing something right if Italy won the World Cup, and the English national team cannot even win a European game.
Frank, the problem with the EPL is that they don’t support the country, or the English, and that’s racist.
Sport is strongly linked to political and economic issues. Here in Europe, too, there is growing consciousness of how economic forces and connected political agendas have been undermining the vital role that sport has always played in national culture and identity.
Nothing has made this clearer than the continuing decline of England’s national soccer team at a time when the English club game has become by far the biggest in the world in terms of salaries and revenues. It now generates around $3 billion a year.
This decline was underlined by the English national team’s failure to qualify for the finals of the UEFA European Football Championship, to be held this year in Austria and Switzerland. While all the other major soccer nations of Europe will be among the 16 finalists, including a French national team that was humbled by home and away defeats to a resurgent Scotland, England, the country recognized as the birthplace of soccer will be absent.
Of course, England has had bad results in the past and occasionally failed to qualify for major tournaments. But what makes this different are two factors. First, the failure to qualify is now being seen as part of a long-term decline of the national soccer team and the level of indigenous talent, and, second, commentators and people at the top level in the game are now starting to link this decline with the economic growth and increasing globalization of England’s top Premier League, which has seen major English club sides increasingly relying on imported talent. Indigenous English players now make up just over 30% of the players.
To the fore in bringing these links to the public attention is Sepp Blatter, the Swiss-born President of FIFA, the international governing body of association football with its headquarters in Zurich. As the Swiss showed in last year’s federal elections, they are not overly susceptible to political correctness and the blandishments of mass immigration and multiculturalism. In that election the highest scoring party, the nationalistic Swiss People’s Party, increased its vote by running a campaign on the slogan “deport foreign criminals” with a poster that showed White sheep kicking a Black sheep out of the country.
Some of the same down-to-earth common sense and healthy belief in racial solidarity can also be found in comments made over the past few months by Blatter and his close ally at UEFA, Michel Platini. In a recent article for the BBC’s website, Blatter made matters clear, calling England’s setback and what it reveals “High Noon for English Football.” In the same article he also sharply criticized the Premier League’s main offender at displacing English players with foreign talent, Arsenal FC. Managed by Frenchman Arsene Wenger, the team has become famous for fielding predominantly Black teams, often without a single White British player.
“Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is wrong to say he does not care about the national team,” Blatter wrote in the article. “When you work in a different country you must also care about that country’s national team – football must be considered as a whole. I would also point out that there is no European law that says you must play with 11 foreign players.”
The situation in England, with a weak national team and club soccer based on a mass of foreign players, contrasts with Europe’s other top soccer powers – Italy, Germany, and Spain. All these countries have strong national teams in the European Championship Finals and club sides that use a far higher proportion of native players, making the connection between strong indigenous club soccer and a strong national team obvious.
In December, the Italian and European club champions AC Milan became the first European club to win the official FIFA Club World Cup held in Tokyo when they beat South American club champions Boca Juniors in the Final 4-2. Among the 14 players they used, 11 were White and 8 of these were Italians. If it had been a top English Premier League club representing Europe, it would have been a different story. Arsenal would have been unlikely to have a single Englishman, Chelsea perhaps 2 or 3, and even Manchester United, the Whitest and most British of the big teams last season, would have had only 3 or 4 indigenous British players according to recent team selections.
It is for this very reason that Italy is World Cup champion and favorites to win the European Championships, while England will be spending an uneventful summer.
Against the vested interests of transfer agents, globalized sports media, and those clubs that have turned their backs on their traditional duty to support local communities and the national game, Blatter is lobbying for a change in European Union law to introduce a “six plus five” plan – a quota of six homegrown players per team and a limit of five foreign players.
Even with this reform there is still plenty of scope to abuse the system through naturalization laws. Some countries only require players to be resident for two years before handing them passports, such as Arsenal’s Black Brazilian-born striker Eduardo da Silva, who now plays for Croatia!
“If we don’t stop this farce, if we don’t take care about the invaders from Brazil towards Europe, Asia and Africa then, in the 2014 or the 2018 World Cup, out of the 32 teams you will have 16 full of Brazilian players,” Blatter told reporters last November.
But no country has done more to discredit the idea of national soccer than France, who routinely field teams of up to nine Black players most of whom were born outside France. Although the French “national” team remains strong, French club soccer remains weak, with little support among White sports fans. In January last year Georges Freche, the Socialist head of the Languedoc-Roussillon south-east regional government, was expelled from the French Socialist Party because he commented on the preponderance of African players over French players in the French national team. “I’m ashamed for this country,” he complained. “Soon, there will be 11 black players.”
At least England’s national soccer team still represents the majority of the population. But both the French and English examples show the dangers of dividing sport from the healthy sense of identity, both at the local and national levels, that it should engender, in the service of short-term interests of profit-driven global sport.
With someone as prominent as Blatter making these noises, more and more people will become aware of the Caste Football analysis: that sport has been hijacked and used to demean and exploit the very people that created, supported, and built it up.
In his recent BBC article, Blatter acknowledges England’s unsurpassed contribution the World’s greatest sport. “I have been at Fifa for over 30 years – I know the contribution England has made to world football,” he writes. “So please, England, do not abandon what you have helped to create.”
Soccer blows… Only Americans that watch it are of Spanish Heritage…. If you watch Soccer you an @ssh*ole in my opinion.
Portnoy I hope that you clipped and pasted that comment… Honestly, anyone who spent time composing that for a combox this far down in the comments….
dont forget rugby! white love rugby and love telling you how much more dangerous rugby is than american football.
My concern with this blog is that there are people reading it who don’t get that it’s a joke (as is evident by the hundreds of comments with people saying “Man, this is so true! I know this white person who…)
Therefore you’re merely perpetuating stereotypes and contributing to prejudice at a time when our country needs to come together and heal racial wounds.
Soccer and it’s ice bound equivalent hockey both blow ass in a major way! I don’t give a damn if SOCCER (not football) is the world’s most popular sport, it just means the rest of ya are ignorant.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to put on my NASCAR hat and watch me some got-damned football!!!! REAL FOOTBALL! YOU KNOW, THE KIND WITH LITTLE TO NO KICKING IN IT!
#643 yeah I pasted it.
this is the key part:
In December, the Italian and European club champions AC Milan became the first European club to win the official FIFA Club World Cup held in Tokyo when they beat South American club champions Boca Juniors in the Final 4-2. Among the 14 players they used, 11 were White and 8 of these were Italians. If it had been a top English Premier League club representing Europe, it would have been a different story. Arsenal would have been unlikely to have a single Englishman, Chelsea perhaps 2 or 3, and even Manchester United, the Whitest and most British of the big teams last season, would have had only 3 or 4 indigenous British players according to recent team selections.
It is for this very reason that Italy is World Cup champion and favorites to win the European Championships, while England will be spending an uneventful summer.
the failure to qualify is now being seen as part of a long-term decline of the national soccer team and the level of indigenous talent, and, second, commentators and people at the top level in the game are now starting to link this decline with the economic growth and increasing globalization of England’s top Premier League, which has seen major English club sides increasingly relying on imported talent.
i know maybe 5-6 people who are really into Arshnel (british pro team) but i don’t know why. They’ve never been to Europe. I guess they just want the scarf
Soccer is hell-a gay, not that there is anything wrong with that…
American football is just Rugby for wimps, for some reason you feel the need to hide under 10 inches of padding…???
Football (soccer) is the beautiful game, rugby is for the tough and American Football is ugly, boring as hell and for fat pansies. 🙂
To the individual who left the comment #650. Soccer isn’t beautiful, it is slow and boring and always ends in a tie, which is communistic.
I have played Rugby and Football, and each are violent in their own way. If you think football is for fat pansies, then you have never been the victim of a pulling guard or a safety in zone coverage. You were probably in the band. Tuba? Flute?
Soccer sucks ass.
FYI, Man Utd is not from London but from Manchester.
So how come them ‘real men’ need shoulder pads and helmets?
This posting was funny. Relax, white Americans- learn to laugh at yourselves. I know some of you are passionate about soccer but this sums up the poseurs who come out of the woodwork for the World Cup every four years or go abroad and need to assimilate for that duration. That is comical.
But what is not funny are white American poseurs buying up English clubs as cash cows. George Gilett and Tom Hicks at Liverpool, the Glazers at Man U care nothing for the history of the club. Stan Kroenke wanted to do the same thing at Arsenal. The only American owner who loves this sport is Randy Lerner, at Aston Villa and it shows.
Portnoy- The influx of foreign players began in 1994 when the Prem was formed. But England’s best moment came much before, in 1966 when they won the World Cup and their third position in Euro ’68. Since then they have been in decline. Blaming the ‘foreign players’ for the current situation is too knee jerk a reaction. How about club commitments taking precedence over national ones? Too much money? The league plays far more games than the other top leagues without a breal leading to many injuries to their top players? The absence of real play makers?
Since then they have been in decline. Blaming the ‘foreign players’ for the current situation is too knee jerk a reaction.
I think dismissing it is knee-jerk. The concerns are being made at the top of the English football world. The key word there is “English”.
The non-English owners will go wherever the talent is cheaper to find and develop. They don’t care about the national team, and why would they? Some of these owners would cheer for israel or Russia deep in their hearts over England and you know it.
Serie A plays many games too. I think England is selling out its own kids with the EPL whores.
$5 says that dm60462 would get clobbered by a football hooligan.
I love the word ‘tools’ there. Well employed, though I disagree.
Actually, We should just include White from the US….
“Hahaha, so damn true. I have so many friends who say they love Manchester United ONLY after visiting London for the semester abroad.”
“FYI, Man Utd is not from London but from Manchester.”
If only people could see the irony…
You (the author) are a complete idiot. First of all, it’s not soccer, it’s football; secondly, white people around the world do not like the IDEA of it; they like the to play the game and to watch it. Unlike you, they actually understand it.
Football is by far the biggest and most important sport in the world. Not jaw-droppingly boring baseball, not grotesque American football with its clown-like outfits, not even basketball with its endless pauses and time-outs. But that’s too much for your little silly American head to understand.
F for the post.
Firstly Eugene is right, but one the other hand its great that some americans enjoy the sport.
at the time when european fotballfans of most of the mayor fotball teams i europe mostely incorrectly but sometimes fully correctly associated with violence and racism. The only club that is considered clean in the fascistdepartement is Fc St Pauli and that is a not a mayor club att all
Oh god yes, I love the football vs. football talk. Meatheaded Americans fighting with foreigners re which is the better sport. Let me say, for the record, that I am a woman and I hate sports unless it is the Olympic Games or street ball. However, I attended a football match in Norwich with some English friends and enjoyed the hell out of myself. Best sporting event ever. The tension, the overwhelming support of the fans, the chanting and singing. I have never been at a sporting event where everyone is so charged up that they chant and sing hilarious songs the entire time about how the opposing team are all a bunch of wankers. All we do at sporting events in America is clap sometimes or sing “Take me out to the ballgame.” Yawn. Football (i.e. soccer) is played by people all over the world, rich and poor, and it unites communities. What American sport can say the same?
Make no mistake, I think the snotty antiAmericanism among many Europeans and the rest of the English-speaking world is ignorant, pure and simple. But I do have to admit that their football is way WAY better than ours. And, being white, I do have a scarf for Norwich (a gift my friends gave me), but I don’t wear it.
It’s Arsenal, you wanker. And they’re the best team in Britian.
I haven’t met those white people who like soccer. Most of us think it’s the most boring game on the planet. Seriously, you watch a bunch of long haired freaks running back and forth for about 800 hours, doing nothing, and then the whole crowd kills each other–that’s the only good part. For me, it’s the same thing as hockey or golf: until the violence makes its way into the mix they’re about as exciting as, well, nothing. Red blooded, white bread, Americans are all about Professional Footbal, the NFL–and we’re not the only ones into it. The other “sports” only exist to fill in the gap between seasons, and that’s all there is to it.
Red blooded, white bread, Americans are all about Professional Footbal, the NFL
You got that right. There is nothing more pathetic than the drunk White NFL fan cheering on a bunch of negroes.
Ha! Second!
I hate soccer. “Ooh, look I’m running! Hey, I kicked a ball!” Whoopie. Those players need to grow some balls and find a real sport.
Lol. Cheers.
lol @ how threatened americans feels by soccer. Lol @ them taking the time and energy to insult the most watched and successful sport on the planet. lol @ some of the comments on here on “Red blooded, white bread, Americans hate that communist sport”. Ugly americanism at its worst.
I love this site, but let’s get this straight: Upper-middle class like Chelsea, the world’s bandwaggon always hitches to the Man U, the weak yuppie tweeners heart Arsenal (’cause everyone likes the cannon logo), and Liverpool are just “wankers”.
I, however, follow the Cleveland Browns soccer club. We are a northern steel town, with some bad weather, we were excellent in the 50’s and 60’s (but haven’t won the big one since), we have rabid fans that pack the house no matter how bad the team is, the city shuts down on game day, we utter phrases like “being a Browns fan is a birthright”, and we believe we are a “big club”, we are the best! If I was English, I’d apparently be from Newcastle. But I’m not. Go Chelsea, Pittsburgh suks…
Being a big soccer fan from Australia there are so many people i know who pretend they are really into soccer but can barely name one player from their favourite team or the team their favourite player plays for. Its such a joke especially when they wear around their soccer tops pretending they follow the club or know so much about it when they know nothing and just wear them becuase they match their khaki pants.
Uh…anyone ever heard of Pele? He was only one of the greatest soccer players of all time and he was black.
Soccer is not a white thing…it’s just not a black thing…the brothers only want to put their childrens in what America told them they should put their kids in…high paying pro athlete deals…soccer in America doesn’t pay well.
The best player in the NASL was Giorgio Chinaglia, and he is White.
Pele was a great player, but his “promotion” worldwide was really just more “diversity” indoctrination, etc.
There are more black people playing soccer than any sport in the world. It is easily the most popular sport among blacks in ALL of africa, brazil, jamaica, haiti….etc.
In fact some of the best players in the world are black, Didier Drogba, Emmanuel Adebayor, Micheal Essien….etc
Wait, did you say black people don’t play soccer?
Garr, no one is playing baseball anymore, at least fewer American-born. Look at the rosters, all Dominicans and Latins.
It might be America’s past-time but it’s nearly as tedious as soccer.
What I like about baseball is going to a game, getting ripped and reading a novel–all without missing any “action.”
Baseball and soccer–two entities flying in the face of: It’s popular, it must be good. No, not really…..
I know Arsenal and Chelsea do.
Wow, everyone takes this so seriously! Why does everything have to be so dead serious? This blog is definitely “Stuff young middle-upper-class white Americans like” but it’s funny.
I admit, I am a white American who likes futbol (a.k.a. soccer; you see how white I am? I want to be cool and call it futbol just like real Europeans or South Americans, lol) I just like to play it though…it’s a sweet game, like none other, and it should be called futbol here too…ban that nasty american football, ya know? I play it because it’s fun and I can get in shape for track. For the people who say futbol is for fairies, have you ever tried to play? Have you seen Christiano Renaldo or Yogo Bonito? They are literal beasts!! Don’t diss futbol, it’s sweet. I do hate the people who just pretend to like it, though. But there’s nothing wrong with a white American who truly likes it.
Nice blog, by the way. Everything I’ve read is so true—wish I would have thought of it.
Go Man-U!!
Any game that can end in a tie is not a real game. The same is said for any game in which you cannot use your hands. Are you kidding me?
Lots of people love Manchester United for the same reason they love the NY Yankees: they always win. Me, I’m a bit different. I am not anywhere near wealthy, did not study abroad, but have on two occasions spent thousands, following months of drastically trimmed expenses, to fly to Manchester and see the Red Devils play. Not to blow my own nose, but I think I can safely claim to be a bit more than your average glory-hunting, trend-chasing white yuppie. Feel free to congratulate me at your leisure (fishing for compliments is another thing white people like).
you forgot to mention that EVERY white person played soccer as a kid
Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, West Ham, Fulham, Burnett, Milwall, Queens Park Rangers, Brentford, Charlton, Crystal Palace, Sutton, and I’m sure there are more smaller teams in the area too.
Also, I’m from Wisconsin and grew up on Brett Favre.
http://www.tucc.org
Couldn’t they have studied in London, but visited Manchester, where they acquired a taste for European foozball?
“What’s not to like?”
Liberalism
It’s better then fricken baseball.
Nothing beats ice hockey.
HAHAHA This one was funny. It’s odd because soccer moms are typically white yet when it comes to watching it on TV, no one does.
I blame it on the newscasters. For the 2002 World Cup, I tried staying up at 3 to watch the final game (Germany v Brazil) on the Spanish language channel but fell asleep, so then later I watched a repeat on an English language channel and the newscasters are so dead!!! It’s like they’re commenting on a golf game or something. Soccer is the most exciting sport ever in Spanish, but in English it just falls dead.
Yeah, but you can use your head.
I’m watching a UEFA match right now between Liverpool FC & Arsenal FC (1-1 in the 56th minute) on ESPN2. I’ve got to agree on the drivel that comes out of the English (and they are English) commentators – it’s dreadful. My ex-husband, who is an Irish national, would watch the English league games on Spanish language stations (he also spoke Spanish), which was a hoot. Just the way they scream “GOL…..” made it worth watching.
I’m gald this catagory is included. I used to work w a guy (white and “knows” everything ’bout someone else’s culture) who have been playing soccer for years and of course belong to a local league. The thing is…if he’s been playing soocer for so long, his legs look like girls legs, skinny and flimsy. If you ever seen “real” soccer players (and i don’t mean professionals) they have huge legs. That’s soccer player!!!
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Justice, and Equality?
http://www.survival-international.org
What should you do if you are a white guy who actually played soccer professionally? Do you fall into the European section of the Venn Diagram?
I know Manchester United is from Manchester.
And yes – I was referencing my friend who had studied in West London, went to one football game, and automatically became a “huge fan”.
This blog is so great…my favorite thing is that I find myself thinking “I LOVE THAT!” for half of the entries hahaha. Thanks for this!
Soccer is a sport pussies play.
Tottenham Hotspur!!!!
As England’s Premier League soccer season nears its climax, we can happily report that White players are continuing to dominate all positions, despite the continuing influx of Black players at clubs like Arsenal, Chelsea, and Portsmouth.
With their superior stamina, all-round strength, mental discipline, and ability to read the game, it should come as no surprise that White players continue to dominate the goalkeeping, defense, and midfield positions, but this year we have had the added bonus of Whites reasserting domination over the forward positions.
This has become more obvious as the season has progressed. Following last weekend’s games, Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo is now seven goals ahead of the highest placed Black player, Arsenal’s Emmanuel Adebayor, who is two goals behind yet another White player, Liverpool’s Fernando Torres.
A look at the those players who have scored ten league goals or over this season also reveals that White goal scoring dominance is in depth, rather than dependent on one or two high flyers.
Out of the 14 goal scorers who have netted double digits, 8 are White, 5 are black, and one is mixed race. Another interesting fact is that half the White players on the list are not out-and-out strikers, but play wider supporting roles – midfielder, holding forward, or winger – helping other players to score and in the process unselfishly diminishing their own goal-scoring tally.
Preserving White dominance at the top of the goal scoring charts is vital because, as last season showed when Blacks dominated, the striker position with its pace, aggression, and single-mindedness, is one area where the very best Blacks are capable of matching Whites. Last season Chelsea’s Didier Drogba, a hard-working and physically tough Ivorian striker, and Blackburn’s pacey South African, Benni McCarthy, dominated goalmouths and headlines with their ability to hit the back of the net. This gave the globalists who run the game the perfect excuse and encouragement to bring in yet more foreign Black talent.
As American Football fans know, under the sports Caste System, once Blacks start to dominate a position, a silent understanding arises between media and clubs that the position now belongs to Blacks. Any club manager who thereafter continues to select Whites for that position can expect a bumpy ride in the media and the boardroom when occasionally his White players fail to deliver, while Black shortcomings are generously overlooked.
Also, any White player chosen to play in a position that is then considered a ‘Black’ position at a club will face opposition and even intimidation in the locker room and on the pitch. We had a little taste of this on the 22nd of January, when Arsenal’s Emmanuel Adebayor and Nicklas Bendtner, clashed on the pitch during the second leg of the League Cup semi-final against Tottenham. Bendtner, who is Danish, and Adebayor, who is Togolese, fulfill the same role in the Arsenal team – both are tall, fast, rangy strikers who aim to get on the end of crosses or use their pace to create gaps in the opposition’s defense. This was at the root of their clash. In an Arsenal forward line that has been heavily dominated by Black players under manager Arsene Wenger, Adebayor clearly feels entitled to the position, not only on the basis of his talent but also his race.
Despite Adebayor’s good form this season, the sight of a White striker who is physically identical to him and just as fast must be particularly threatening. For this reason, Adebayor takes every chance to insult and demean Bendtner. In the game against Tottenham, Arsenal was 0-4 down when Adebayor came on and scored. After this, he repeatedly said to Bendtner, “I’m only on because you’re s**t.” When Bendtner responded by showing Adebayor the finger, the Black player clearly felt dominant enough to go over and head butt his teammate square in the face, in front of a stadium full of White fans. This caused a nasty gash on the nose of the Dane, who manfully controlled himself and refused to back down.
The media and the club quickly downplayed the incident. Instead of blaming Adebayor for an arrogant assault, the spin was that “frustrations had boiled over” and “tempers flared,” and that both players were equally accountable and equally apologetic. To the readers of Caste Football, however, this incident has all the hallmarks of attempted racial bullying, aimed at creating a ‘micro-culture’ of Black domination on the pitch and in the locker room.
As social scientists have observed in American cities, when Blacks are a tiny minority in a neighborhood, they tend to behave relatively well, but once they become a sizeable minority they start to ‘act up’ in a way that asserts their dominance over an area. If they are not opposed, the process is escalated until all who do not wish to live under their control or put up with their constant threatening or assertive behavior are forced to move out. A similar phenomenon is seen in sports teams or certain playing positions, although, in this case, the percentage of Blacks required is normally higher.
In the case of English Premier League, the past success of Black strikers, like Drogba and Thierry Henry, have helped create a ‘micro culture’ of Black dominance at certain clubs and positions that has reinforced and aided the rise of Black players, regardless of merit. This has been further assisted by the Premiership’s politically correct ‘macro culture’ and its wholesale adoption of White America’s race guilt mentality. This can be seen in the recent high prominence given to the Marxist-inspired “Show Racism the Red Card” campaign and other politically correct campaigns. These have basically set up a straw man, accusing almost every club of ‘institutional racism,’ and insinuating that all White football fans are inherently racist.
In this fantasy universe of political correctness, the fact that Asians are unable to cut it in the game as players while Blacks are almost non-existent as managers is taken as damning proof of widespread White racism. This is because all races are supposed to be equal in terms of mental and athletic ability, according to the Liberal/Marxist view of mankind – although, incongruously, they are quite happy to countenance the unproved notion of White athletic inferiority.
The real reason for the dearth of Asian players and Black managers is not racism but simply the athletic and mental deficiencies of the two groups involved, compared to Whites. Also, anyone watching the Premier League can see that English fans and clubs are remarkably tolerant and accepting of foreign and non-White players. Indeed, this is one of the reasons why indigenous English players have now been reduced to a minority in their own top league, just as White Americans are in the NFL.
Racism does exist in soccer and other sports, but it is mainly directed at White players and fans, and seeks to create a Caste System giving less talented non-White players a secure, comfortable, and glamorous living as the price of social inclusion for ethnic minorities who often find success in other areas of society beyond their talents.
Luckily, this season, a resurgence of White goal scoring talent has reversed this racist, anti-White process in the one area where it threatened to gain a foothold and make the biggest impact, the forward line. In the process, fans, players, and managers alike, have seen that the road to soccer success is not always the loud, flashy, and aggressive Black striker.
It’s kind of funny, I watched a soccer match (Inter Milan vs. Fiorentina) while reading this post.
I bought A Real Madrid scarf at a game in Spain. I am such a douche.
we’r not stupid some people do like them a lot on the first visit but they can’t now every thing at first you have to be a fan for a long time to know every thing there’s a lot of stuff to learn so so shut the hell up
Are you kidding?! This is brilliant. Now I know what to get John and Brad and Katie for Christmas.
Your a twat mate. Oh yes i’m very impressed with your statistics and long words, but what your saying is utter tripe. You need to get a grip on reality.
I’m not even gonna comment on the racist drivel througout what you’ve just said, but your understanding of football seems limited as well. Every position dominated by white players? You’re having a laugh aren’t you. Have you taken a look at the England squad lately?
Crawl back in your hole.
I love talking to Americans about football. Its fucking hilarious. ‘soccer’, ha!
ok so true… but manchester is ont of the best or the best u.k. or european team but they suck anyway if ur gona pretend like u like or kno alot about soccer dont waist ur time by saying u like european or ECSPICIALY u.k. teams cus u just sound like a fool!!!!!!!!!!!! If ur gona try and act like u kno what ur talkin bout at least pick a good team so actual soccer players or fans wont b laughing at you ion their heads african or south american teams could beat any european team (other than mayb ITaly) any day
ok so true….
manchester is one of the best if not the best u.k. team BUT they suck anyway i dont care what you say… plz if ur gona act like u kno stuff bout soccer or ur a HUGE fan or u even like it the tinest biut dont b stupid and say the best teams or ur fav team is a u.k. team cus then u just sound like a fool and all real soccer players r laughing in their heads at u while u tell them
p.s. real soccer players kno when someone likes or keeps up with soccer and they kno if ur lying and saying ur a fan so dont even go there and say u do cus then they talk bout u behind ur back or make fun of you
so those of u who do do that … haha
ok so in ur words im a “redneck” just cus of the class im in and where i live well ur wrong i dont like that stuf hardley and ur just a hypocritical #&@*!^ stuck up yankee like all other yankees in this country u judge us 4 no reason and i would like 2 add southerners and middle class ppl r nicer, have more heart, are nicer, and are more ginuine than all freaks are anyday but i guess thats bcus we dont have things handed to us and or husbands arent makin croocked deals in buisness to get us a couple more grand a week and we actually work 4 what we want and most of us dont waist our money on plastic surgery or any of that other crap and if u notice all of yall are mean, jerky, snooty, stuck up, big headed, and just dont care bout others or how they feel or if theve been havein a bad day or week or year or live ur just self consumed selfish impostures
y’know what’s wrong with the “favors” part? You can do all this stuff to a TEE, ask ’em about how they come to love their favorite soccer team and what region of chardonnay is the best, etc. then when you get to the favors part it only works if you’re not white. Cuz they love being magnanimous to not-white people but us people of the Caucasion blood lines who are not quite so “white” as them, its our own damn fault, we had all the skin advantage they had so what’s wrong with us, its so much more cool and hip to do the favor for the “person of color”
so true. Moskva Spartak!!!
Sutton? I was almost born in Sutton, but there isn’t a maternity unit there so I was actually born in Carshalton. I don’t think Sutton have a footie team worthy of note.
I’m a Limey, so I think all this ‘soccer’ stuff is hilarious. We British don’t understand American football, either, but you’ll still find wankers who think they do and will tell you all about it if you don’t stop them. I guess it’s an international problem.
I myself have a deep love of the Kazakhstani game of F’tang F’tang, which is like pool but played on horseback with a golf-club instead of a cue. The smell of horseshit still brings back happy memories of controlling my mettlesome stallion with knees alone as I swung my five-iron and hit a three-bumper shot to pot the black and win. Ah! Happy days!
Italian soccer is not fun or entertaining to watch.
AC Milan’s biggest stars who helped win the Champion’s league title were Kaka and Seedorf (not Italian). Not to belittle Gattuso or Maldini or Inzaghi’s contributions, but AC Milan got to the finals relying on Kaka’s midfield domination.
Inter Milan’s side which dominates the domestic league is mostly foreign born (South American).
I will concede that the Italian’s 2006 world cup side was successful, but they made it through on a dubious victory over Australia (fake PK) and never shone other than during the amazing semifinal against Germany.
So the point is that the success of Italian clubs is not because of an Italian backbone, but rather that it is founded on South American creativity and grit.
This year there are no Italian teams in the Champion’s league semifinal.
Criticize the English teams all you want, but Italian soccer is consistently unimaginative at the club level if you exclude the foreign players (this is true to most European teams, at some level). There is also less depth to the Italian league in comparison to the English or Spanish leagues or Argentinian or Brazilian leagues.
Screw boring soccer. Screw catenaccio and the Italian method of stifling entertaining soccer. It may win some tournaments at the international level, but the best teams that will be remembered for all time will always be the ones that implemented the true spirit of the game. We will remember Brazil ’70, Holland ’74-78, Argentina ’86, France ’98, South Korea ’02 for showing us how beautiful the game can be when teams play for more than just a tie.
Barcelona is NOT anti-white. It’s local fan base is, in fact, white and from Catalonia. Barca’s fans are not ideologically centered around communism or anarchism anymore, either.
I agree with the Lazio characterization — they are racists.
Anyhow please carefully consider your statements before you publish them online. Polarizing an entire team and its fans which make up a city’s identity is wrong if those polarizations do not hold water any longer.
1) The MLS is growing.
2) Soccer is the biggest participant sport in this country for people under 18.
3) It’s all a matter of preference. I won’t fault you for watching baseball (which puts me to sleep) because if you grew up with the sport and had parental encouragement you probably had fun playing it and watching it.
forza violaaa. Solo Fiorentina! Firenze regna
I almost got a mini-Liverpool scarf once in Prague. it was like 12 inches long. that was just after they won the CL in ’05…
but get a mini-one,
for your chihuaha.
Curbs suck c*ck
how about this?
Eddie Johnson is a black American who plays for a soccer team in London!
I am called Rob,
and I have previously posted this comment:
what are the chances?
“Satire (n.) – An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author’s enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are ‘endowed by their Creator’ with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a sour-spirited knave, and his every victim’s outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.” [Ambrose Bierce]
come on:
Van Nistelroy, Robben, and Schneider…
keys to success.
Yeah, the more I read this site the more I find I fit into the stereotype. I…studied abroad in Russia (does that count as Europe or Asia?), and got a scarf for the Zenit.
Of course, I never claimed to like soccer; the fans were unintentionally hilarious, but the game was dull.
You clearly haven’t seen Peter Crouch
ya but considering there are 5 top level teams in London its kinda sad
blair i think your proving your one of the “fans”. Italy are a bunch of flops and the teams in the uk are some of the best in the world provided your talking about club teams (the semis of the champions league prove me right)
wow thats impressive you know your english football cold- or at least the london teams
I think there are a lot of african players you would disagree with you on that
its better than american sports were you get to watch them stand around for one to two hours (and you call it sport)
well according to your definition of what a real man is Football is played by pansies “real men” play rugby which dosnt have the pads
Wrong. Too busy playing tackle, American football where if you “acted” hurt you had some coach injecting his shoe in your bunghole. Or did I confus that story with my Saturday night last weekend?
When I was studying abroad (yes, I am white and studied abroad, I also wore new balance shoes for most of the trip and drank a ton of bottled water) a group of students went to an Arsenal game (I went to the bar and got drunk). When they came back they all had scarves, and would not stop talking about the players, and the “premiere league” and how awasome “football” is. They kept going back and forth attempting to one up eachother on who had the most knowledge. It was obvious none of them had any f%&#ing clue what they were talking about- pathetic-
At least this is one I dont fit into-
This is the lamest post I have ever read in all my days of reading posts- seriously, you need help. I know a good shrink.
As for all you soccer bashers out there, I would think twice before disparaging the “beautiful game” as the dedication required to perfect foot skills and the level of conditioning needed to excel at this sport is beyond the scope of many NFL players who would be left on the field sucking wind due to their size and weight. I have cultivated a respect and love for the game of soccer even though I have only played it sparingly myself, and now follow my kids around New England for their travel team games. They have a blast and my knowledge of the game has grown exponentially. I guess the point of this long winded post is that you need to be true to yourself in terms of what you find personally compelling and avoid the false posturing that is common to youth, particularly white youth. I will admit though, that it does make for a fun read as we white folks have tried to “out cool” one another on many different levels.
More to consider.
I’m 30, have played soccer since I was 6, and I also coach. MOST of the high school coaches I know are white, and definitely the college players and coaches I know (both male and female) are white as well.
As previously mentioned, many kids, including white kids, grow up playing soccer. Later many in smaller schools are forced to choose between soccer and football. Many follow what their parents did in high school -football. (Volleyball or basketball for girls, depending on the season…) Fortunately, there are many who go to larger schools, where there are more opportunities to play soccer throughout the year. They play all year ’round in many cases. With all of these kids playing soccer, it is strange that they don’t have favorite teams right? There are a few reasons:
The MLS isn’t the strongest league yet, though it is approaching the strength of the Mexican league. Mexican teams still enjoy an advantage when they play MLS teams though. However, when the national teams play, the US is like 10-1-2 in the last few years vs. Mexico.. How? Well, Some of the best US players actually play their club soccer overseas…. So why aren’t those teams our favorites?… Only some of them are successful. Some of our best aren’t yet breaking into the top leagues, though we are in the top leagues…..Still the question remains -why don’t we really have favorite teams? Well, we’re starting to. It really comes down to air time. Soccer is only recently getting more of it. Fox Soccer Channel is only getting more popular, therefore, it is now getting included into cheaper programing prices (cable and dish). Also, ESPNs, spanish channels, and also the big three (ABC, NBC, CBS) are taking note… Because of this, more college, MLS, Mexican league, European leagues (Spanish, English, Dutch, German, Italian), and even S. American (Brazilian, Columbian, and Argentinian)…and then national games as well…. are being aired. Soon enough, more than just a few white guys will make this article no longer applicable.
P.S. Unlike former high school and college football players, who now are mostly overweight and/or out of shape… Soccer players can keep playing the beautiful game well into their 40s and 50s in some cases. So when a lot of Americans are sitting at home with their beer and pizza watching football, (Btw, I’m a huge college football fan), some of us soccer players are out playing. Thanks to Tivo and DVR though, -now I can go play, then come back and eat my pizza, drink a beer, and watch a couple of my favorite teams (Barca and ManU) play each other in a clash of styles, in the UEFA Cup Semifinals, nearly commercial free (have to fast forward..)
Also, regarding watching soccer vs. watching football…. Just less then half of the US pop. watched the Super Bowl. And some overseas watched it as well… don’t have those numbers.
MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLD WATCHED THE WORLD CUP. THE FINALS LAST FOR A MONTH (THE LAST 32 TEAMS).
What a concept, a World Cup, where every country in the world with a soccer team (204 I think) actually has a chance to win. (The “World Series” of baseball is kind of hard to take seriously.)
Okay, there are many fine sports in the world…. but none as great as soccer!!
So Much To See.
Actually we are into “football” -pronouced “fu-baw” with the “W” just slightly underpronounced – we don’t call it “soccer”. But then again all sorts of people like it and play it not just “white English people”.
Confusingly we call ” rugby football” – rugby and even more confusingly there are two types one is “U” and one is “non U” (as in Mitford). This is what English white people think of as a “joke”
But I suppose the British “white people” equivalent of “soccer” in the US is to talk about “rugby” meaning the version invented in our public (sorry “private” schools) Two nations divided by a common language…..
At these matches all the violence is on the field not on the terraces (bleachers?). Unlike “fu-baw” where the reverse applies and any player who just gets his tiny toes stepped in doubles up in agon-knee ( a special langage of “fu-baw” )needing immediate surgery and headlines in the sports pages with appalling puns.
But I don’t think white people here in England can live up to your white people’s standards as we have bad teeth and our house are so tiny…
Come on Americans Wednesday needs your support!
That’s “Barnet.”
And don’t forget the mighty Dagenham & Redbridge…through that might be considered Essex.
/Londoner, entitled to football snobbery
I’m half-white, and I love football (call it “soccer” if you like, but it’s football): the game, and not just the idea of it. What I love about it is the competition between countries. I agree with Nathan (see above): there’s nothing like the World Cup.
When it comes to various national leagues and international club championships, though, I lose any interest even in the “idea” of it. I really don’t see the point, unless you have a particular attachment to a particular city. But then most of the players aren’t even from that city.
But to watch two countries on the field, engaged in a rivalry of speed and skill while surrounded by tens of thousands of singing and flag-waving fans: now that’s a spectacle worth rescheduling your life for once every four years. Especially when it’s two countries with very few points of contact between them, such as Ghana and the Czech Republic during Germany 2006.
Not necessarily. There aren’t many Man Utd fans in Manchester. Most of them live in London or the south East.
Nice bullshit you have going here.
Guess what? That’s right, you’re wrong again.
I in all my over 6 foot, blonde haired, blue eyed, nordic looking glory HATE football.
They call it ‘the beautiful game’ here in the UK/Ireland, but to me it’s always been worthless.
An ugly, useless cancer.
Congratulations.
I came upon my favorite team indirectly while watching the ’98 World Cup from my couch in Champaign, IL during a summer off from college. Does this give me more or less cred than adopting a team while studying abroad? And I have stipulations:
1) I still support the team, in fact moreso now even though I’ve since married and can’t use it as an eccentricity to get girls.
2) I haven’t bought a jersey of my fave team in years, though do buy other teams’ (non-rivals) when the shirt price falls below what I’d normally pay for a Nike/Addidas workout shirt.
3) My one friend who did study abroad did not come back with anything from Rapid Wien.
Actually, it’s not irony, it’s ignorance – much like your misuse of the word irony.
Zola era un grande, tu invece sei piccolo, piccolo…
Ok guys, you won the last one, say thanks to Materazzi and stop being stupid: you don´t have black/brown players in the Italian squad, because Italy:
– didn´t have immigration until very recently
– doesn’t have DOM-TOM
France has both, and you can’t deny us our players.
I’m still waiting for an Italian fan requiring white-only French squads to explain me for which country Thuram should play.
His ancestors were French before Italy even existed as a country. Shouldn’t have MJ play on the american Dreamteam?
France won the Euro in 2000, and not by cheating, so deal with it.
For the american commentators: I didn’t take you to task so far, because you are not supposed to know the details, origins of the French squad and all the stuff. BUt it is not OK to think like Gianfranco.
If you want to be White, you need to study the details behind the TV-screen, and to be color-blind.
Peter Crouch is an exception. Check Roberto Carlos’ legs.
Dylan, you are either ignorant or have swallowed a myth. I am Manchester born and bred. 4/5ths of our city is United. True Mancs are winners.
Sawker sucks I’m ‘merican!!! American sports are better than sawker cuz they be ‘merican!!! Sawker is foreign sport terrorism from inferior foreigners who are too feminine to know that sawker isn’t a real sport.
Baseball = real sport.
Football = real sport.
Sawker aka foreign faggotball = not a sport, requires zero skill.
America is the greatest. down with sawker, up with capitalism and th american way. Sawker is a direct threat to americanism and all americans must be condescending and hateful anytime this eurofag fake-sport of sawker is mentioned. Yell it loud white america: SAWKER SUCKS USA IS SUPERIOR USA USA USA!!!
I’m hoping this is a joke…
I just watched the Champions League final in Denver, CO, between Man U and Chelsea.
The pub was packed full of yanks shouting and being lairy, but they got the whole rhythm all wrong. When the Man U supporters shouted Man U, the Chelsea fans shouted CHELSEA at the same time rather than adding a different rhythm so all it did was make the Man U chant sound harder.
I tried to teach them this CFC chant, but somebody pointed out that Americans can’t handle more than one sentence in their brains:
“Debt Free, where ever we may be,
We will buy everyone we see,
And we don’t give a fuck about the transfer fee
Cos we are the wealthy CFC.”
Anyway, me and my mate sang all day, but in the end, there was no understanding of the pain and effort supporters live.
Hahahahaha, sooo fucking true. The only player they know is Beckham and Pele and if they did a research in wikipedia they may mention Maradona.
They would always be fan of in the world cup even when they don’t know anything about the players or the other teams. And they always would be fan of a team in the League or MLS. But ask them about “Real Sociedad” or about a famous player like Ikker Casillas.
If you want to challenge an American who thinks he know about soccer, ask them about “La Libertadores Cup”.
He also forgot to mention that white americans love soccer, so they can wear the shirt and say they are multicultura without opening their mouths, and of course the pretty colors, designs and trendy european advertising.
White only love Formula One and their favorite Scuderia is Ferrari / McLaren or to be obscure Toro Rosso,
Can white people mention the name of a Team outside Europe or Mexico?
You Forgot about the tiny cars.
i find this interesting. i don’t think it’s as much about white people as it is about “soccer fans” from north america.
my friends in canada and usa are exactyl like you described, they went oversees and all of a sudden they love the beautiful game. they also only like the big teams, like ManU, Real Madrid, etc.
There is nothing whiter than an American insisting on calling the sport “football.” There is absolutely nothing offensive about the word “soccer”; it’s a completely neutral word. But white people love informing us that our own language is wrong and that the “rest of the world” (which strangely doesn’t include Canada, Australia or New Zealand) calls it “football.” (It goes without saying, of course, that White Law decrees that the rest of the world, by definition, is better than anything the U.S. does.)
I read this listing hoping to disprove the “Stuff White People Like” idea because I am a lifelong, die-hard football/futbol/soccer fan. I play, coach, attend matches locally and internationally, and convert as many other sports fans as possible, but I couldn’t read past the eleventh message because the urge to correct all the spelling, typing, and grammatical errors just became overwhelming. So, not only was my attempt futile, it provided confirmation of who I am. Oh yes, I am white and I am the epitome of #99.
Ah !
Nothing better than white people commenting on a blog making *fun* on white people !
You all are super sarcastic white people !
This is so funny. I’m a football(soccer freak) to most of my friends but to humor me they try to get involved with it. Although there are many fans that are white and know what they are talking about the amount of folk who cheer for a team and don’t know the first thing about it or it’s history is so prevalent.
For instance, one of my best friends claims to absolutely love Celtic. He’s got Scots/Irish roots, etc, etc. Has a shirt, has a nike cap he bought somewhere, but last week I said, “Hey congrats on Celtic.” He didn’t know why. They just won their third straight SPL title.
I laughed at him until I cried.
The NEW craze for white people is to assert support for a non top-5 Premiership/La Liga/Serie A/Bundesliga Club. So while our friend in the woodpile collects cool points from everyone, Manchester United adds a couple more trophies to cabinet.
***Bonus points are automatically given to people who swear allegiance to AJAX.
Like Paris Saint-Germain!
Soccer (in the USA):
“Sport of the future, always has been, always will be” I think the quote is from Frank DeFord, at least I recall hearing it on his NPR (yet another thing white people like)morning bit.
This is rubbish, I am fed up hearing that foreigners are ruining the English national team. Complete rubbish, this is one of the best England teams in many years, the fact that Steve McLaren made a mess of Euro qualifying is something else. Problem is people have short memories, remember the disastrous team of the early 90’s under Taylor, that was during a time when the Premier League (1st Division) was weak compared to Italy & Spain and had few foreign players. Nowadays our players are used to playing against the best and the cream rises to the top, the only difference is that now players that previously would have played in the Premier League now play in the lower leagues since better quality foreign players have taken their place, the players are there amongst the many leagues, just the standard is higher at the very top.
Maybe I am missing the point, I’ve read a lot of this blog and there are some pretty funny peeps here.
I love the blacks, I love the yellars, I love the whities, I love the human race. What’s a pain in the arse and a shame about society is that its fine to joke about whites, but when its done to any other colour, the sensitive PC buttmunches get all up in arms, when obviously they are more racist to see racism in everything and bring it to light when in fact it aint even there mofo.
Love yer loads dudes, keep it going for the sake of humanity. Lets have another site stuffyellarslike. stuffblackslike, stuffbrownslike oohh and stuffgreenslike so the irish aren’t left out. Bogtrotting, potato eating, girly dancing, nationalist numbnuts, so dey are dair you go dya see now dya dair.
Liverpoolllllllll till I dieeeeeee. Calcio test di cazzo.
Aldo the Italian Irish Black man
Los Angeles means the Angels, Las Vegas vegas’s place, Montana mountains, Montreal royal hill etc, etc.
What kind of stupid queston is that??? You’re a country of immigrants so why not use whatever language you like. Although Salt Lake Wanderers sounds better to me so I get your point a bit actually,Spanish & English sounds a bit crap. Jeessuuss why am I wasting my time writing this crap when I hav got a job to find.
Ta da
Its Fulham you tit! You obviously are not a Euro football snob as you dont have a clue my swankie friend.
This blog has a point about white upper class soccer kids. US footballers that play in the English League and abroad are clueless. I love the way the have no originality and mimic the celebrations and maneurisms of Latin players (religiously crossing themselves before going onto the pitch or when they miss a shot on goal etc.), you are in England you wannabe ponce, that aint our bag baby! It looks really funny on a white US guy who has probably not catholic and just thinks thats what all footballers are supposed to do, hee hee hee.
I also saw teh S. Korean Ahn Jung-Hwan and other clueless players (normally our asian friends) mimic the famous Raul celebration where he kisses his ring finger (no doubt in respect to his wife or a loved ones gift ring), accept they are completely clueless and kiss the back of their hand or the wrist since they have completely missed the point. You knobcheeses, sort it out and be yourselves. If you want to pretend youre latin go to the Spanish league and play there, better still be original and think up your own thang baby.
It’s true, American footballers tend to monkey see monkey do. I wonder though, when the British meat sacks get all fired up over a bad call or some perceived transgression by the other team, do the Americans follow suit and beat the ever loving snot out of each other? It looks real funny to see the drunken bastards in the stands smashing each other’s head in, to the point police have to shut the whole thing down. The game itself (note I said game not sport) is awfully boring; however, throw in some limeys getting their head cracked open and it becomes wildly entertaining.
Weren’t the British fans prohibited from attending matches in Germany for a while due to their drunken, brawling nature?
I grew up playing both soccer and American football, and I love both for different reasons.
Soccer requires a degree of creativity and imagination that is nearly unmatched in American sports. Basketball is probably the only one that is even close.
That said, I love all these ignorant Europeans calling American football players fatasses. You’re average American professional football player is up there as far as the most elite athletes on earth. You have to be truly physically gifted to play it as well as they do. When you’re 6’4″ and 235 lbs., and you can run a 100m dash in less than 11 seconds…you’re talented. When that train of a linebacker comes bowling at you, all the protection in the world still isn’t enough. There’s a good reason why so many professional football players have a terrible time with concussions and memory loss once they retire.
American football is also far more cerebral than just about any other major sport out there. There’s more strategy involved in just one quarter of American football than two matches of soccer. Again, I say that as a former soccer player and casual afficianado of the game.
Also, college football in the South equals European and South American passion for soccer. It is expressed in different ways, but Southerners live and die with college football.
I was wondering if actually liking soccer the game (not the idea) was too white. I’m black but I have a lot of European or ex-expatriate friends who introduced me to watching soccer, so now I love the international games. This is a very pressing question in light of the ongoing Euro 2008 cup – I want to be able to wear my Bundesliga jersey and cheer for my boys without risking becoming addicted to mayonnaise and hating corporations.
i like the idea of soccer because it’s imaginary. real soccer is for pussy-boys whose mamas are afraid they might feel pain. serious men play football. but real men play rugby.
it takes leather balls to play rugby, and it’s infinitely more homoerotic and white than the other two sports.
i bet 90% had vote for hillary stickers on their car.
I’m biracial…and my white mother came over from Ireland and loves soccer for real. I love soccer. So my question is…am I exempt because of my mom’s euro-ness, exempt cuz my dad is black, or am I one of them people you are making fun of in this article…a white person who really likes this sport? A brain buster, ain’t it?
Heh, I have always been generally sports-coordinated, and played soccer as a child(long before it was a requirement by white-suburban law). Yet I haven’t watched an entire soccer match on TV….well…ever.
But I do have a lot of white friends who profess their love for it quite often, and when our local MLS team is regularly in the news, will actually wear jerseys and other paraphernalia. These are the same people when at a picnic, I will surely be the first to deliberately kick one of their children’s balls at with vigor only to watch them cringe or flee in uncoordinated terror.
Football is the official religion of Texas. Folks will drive 200 miles to watch a high school game when they don’t even have any kids in school.
What color are most people in South America?
What color are most people in Africa?
What is the most popular sport in Africa and S. America (these ARE entire continents, mind you)?
Are French people white? What about people from Spain? How about the places like Yugoslavia and Russia who racially war amongst each other…they seem to be ALL white. Either way I don’t think this list has anything to do with those people.
They really need to change this to, ‘What White Middle America Likes’…but maybe that’s supposed to be implied….and probably isn’t as catchy or ‘cool’.
the World Series of baseball came from an older newspaper called ‘The World’, that’s why it’s always been the ‘World Series’. But you do have a point…NBA and NFL also say they are ‘world champions’…and with the past few years, even that’s become only half-right. A world Cup in any of those sports would be cool…but I think they do it to some degree, just usually amateur. Didn’t Cuba and Japan play in he last baseball World championship?
Soccer sucks. Nothing happens. It’s good for children I guess because it’s safe but weird to see those english getting so excited.
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Also, whites from California don’t count. The Hispanic influence is just so high, you’ll find at least one white being a fan of at least the Chivas. Bonus points if they’re fans of the original Chivas from Guadalajara, Mexico.
Stupid Title…
I guess Black or Brown people live in Soccer crazy Europe right? another example of the myopic American worldview..
Shut up.
I think it should read; Stuff White, Urban, College Educated, Liberals like.
AlphaPrime and the rest of you – this is a JOKE book – chill out!
I think, if you’ve read the rest of the entries on here, that that sort of goes without saying.
Especially considering the disclaimer at the end of the post.
If you play it, then you get to run around most of the time, except if you’re the goal keeper. Compare that to baseball, say; now there’s a boring sport, both to play and to watch! Gridiron is broken up by too many pauses and it seems overly sissy with those helmets and body armor. Basketball is pretty good though.
soccer sucks balls
suck soccer ballz
Talking out of our asses today, are we?
man. didn’t you notice by now that this blog is about a certain kind of white people. as if all white people go to film or law school. it’s about “white people”.
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If I am white and like basketball and fried chicken am I cool or accepted by your really cool club?
Not THIS whiter-than-white man. The only thing I hate more than soccer is the idea of soccer.
This is such a humorous site. It amazes me how some people get offended. They must be white. :>I especially like the comment, “Once they have finished talking, it is acceptable to ask for favors.
White Person
I’m not offended by this as a white person. I am totally offended by this as a soccer player/fan.
Then be offended by this –its satire, dumb ass!
Funny, and true. Unless it’s cool to like a specific team, white people won’t care. Like when FC Barcelona was big. Now Manchester United is big. I’m just glad Real Madrid’s time passed, and now us true Madridistas can get to work cheering from our couches.
Totally true. I was in Buenos Aires for two weeks for work (Traveling to South America – more white stuff and I am writing about) The Copa America was on every TV all time. I watched the finals in my hotel room for 15 minutes and fell asleep. Now I own three futbol jerseys. Soccer is still boring to watch but so is all sports. Watching sports is only fun if other people are watching and talking about it.
And in europe you can say the same thing about baseball…..
I am waiting for “White people like… Pretending that the entire world is American and has the same tastes, desires and outlook as Americans”
You’re missing the irony. “White people” don’t do what you just said… that would be the “other white people”.
For your information!!! that sport, Soccer, is dominate in the Hispanic Society!!!!!
AAAHHH!! You forgot hockey!!!!!
And that is my favorite sport!!!!!
Regards,
Frank
ahhhh…. who saw homer in the simpsons movie… “americans will never accept soccer”
Well Mats, since we have tha same name I just had to comment on this. We Europeans do actually have very little to say about baseball and we usually don’t pretend to like it since we don’t know zip about it.
Regards
Mats
C’mon, soccer is a bore ass, and we all know it. Wow.. another 0 – 0 game! Oh, the humanity.
American Football is boring as hell.
You gotta be kidding me if you guys are gonna constantly degrade and disgrace the sport of football by calling it by that stupid little name! The name if this sport is FOOTBALL. repeat after me F O O T B A L L Hmmm, how come football has never caught on in America? Let’s see, for starters, it is called by a ridiculous sounding name that was just meant to be a nickname for the sport. Not its official name! Yet Americans left and right love to misname the sport of football. “But there is already another sport called that” Don’t gimme that shit! Football existed for centuries before any other sport decided to call itself that. “But the media tells us to call it this little word” Fuck the media. Don’t listen to those idiots. The name of the sport is football. If you call yourself a football fan or a footballer yet call the sport by its bastard name, you’re a disgrace. “But my friends will laugh at me if I call it football and call me a wannabe Brit” Fuck that and fuck them. If you love football, you will call it football and your friends can go fuck themselves.
European soccer is gay – soccer is gay
If humans enjoyed all that hard work and low scoring they would stay single.
I’m an American and I like football. You ready for the Prem. kick off? Just hours now.
Completely pumped! can Man U be stopped this year??? There is no football like EPL football!
You totally busted me on this one. God, I am such a poser!
As a Londoner and lifelong Arsenal fan, let me tell you this: There is NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING that real English football fans hate more than discussing football with Americans. Seriously, people.
If watching a game with Brits, keep quiet, listen and learn the correct terminology BEFORE opening your mouth. American sports terminology is NOT directly (i.e. de-fense, assists etc) transferable.
PS – we’re not big on stats either – the only one that matters is the full time score!!
kuroishin you are stupid!
Then, why do you support that bunch of cheating assholes?
As a Barcelona inhabitant who is a FCB supporter, I can tell you that the picture of this post is just WRONG. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
Western White people really don’t like soccer. When you grown up with the beautiful brutality of hockey, trying to watch a game of low scores, low action and fake injuries is a bit of an insult to sport.
Real sports have fights, blood and fast paced action.(I do not mean in the stands.)
Soccer fans, here is a few tips.
1. make the Pitch/goals smaller
2. Encourage fighting on the field not the stands
3.Physically punish those that fake an injury.
4.Lose the pussy rules.
@Footballer
The word “Football” originally referred to any sport that was played on foot, as opposed to played on horseback. American football, rugby, Gaelic football, football (soccer–put in parentheses to protect your delicate sensibilities), Aussie rules football all derived from the same original idea, which was much closer to the idea of rugby/Am. football than the sport played with the roundball. The idea was to pass an object from teammate to teammate, eluding opponents and getting the object over an endline. That was the original football–it’s kind of a vague concept, which is why there are so many different offshoots of it.
The claim that football (soccer) originated long before American football is wrong. The original sport was much more like rugby/Am. football than football (soccer). Football (soccer) was an offshoot of the original on-foot sport and thus is actually shares a similar history and timeline.
The formailization of rules for each sport occurred right around the same time–the 1860s for football (soccer) in the UK/1870s for American football. I hate to tell you, but the two sports share a much, much more similar history than you’d like them to.
And because we have different cultures, it’s really okay to call the same sport by a different name. Enjoy your football, we’ll enjoy our soccer.
Here! Here! There should be a law banning Americans from discussing football (or soccer if they will); it is truly painful to be anywhere near an American discussing the beautiful game. You don’t know what you are talking about, so shut up and go back to your sports, and let the rest of the world enjoy our game in peace.
Football a gloabl sport? Bollocks! You have to earn the right to be considered worthy of entry into this game of games.
Actually, they all started at the same time, and it was just the rules were different. Rugby/Am. Football didnt start first. Football started out as kicking around for some ppl, while some other “universities” made up their own rules.
I worked at a concession stand, and boy let me tell you, I have never seen so many white people at a soccer field in my life. Don’t get me wrong, most of the white people were russians, canadians, or european, but there were little patches of homegrown american white people. I live up near Seattle, so we do have a big soccer fan base. I will agree soccer is better to watch than football, but I can only watch it when the announcer doesn’t speak english or live.
Sadly, I would prefer girls fastpitch over any other sport including mens professional baseball. What a bunch of pussy pitchers who cant pitch a full game anymore.
All the sports are going down the tube…. soon it will all be as boring as golf!
oh god.
I’m asian-cuban/black-american so there are already thousands of reasons why I should automatically like baseball more than football. Everyone mistakes me for a brazilian “mulata”, complete with speaking portuguese and everything.
So I spent my entire summer with my uncle’s wife and her giant loud “tudo beeeem” family visiting from Brazil (around Rio) and I’ve become obsessed with football and the transfers and Manchester United.
TO the point where football calms my nerves, I know every footballer by their victory dances and i’m shouting rapid portuguese at the television.
Football/soccer is great. The US should get better at it so we aren’t embarrassed compared to other countries.
If we got better at Soccer than we’d have to waste the natural athletes that would have been great at exciting sports….
Nobody except you finds your american “football” exciting. The only reason you like it is because you invented it, so its your sport. Its deafly boring, with 12 minutes of action in a 3 hour broadcast. 95% of time there is LITERALLY nothing happening. That’s why soccer’s viewership is 10 times bigger than american football.
Soccer on the other hand excites more people than any other sport on the planet. Fact.
Good to see that the white ugly americans still exists out there.
Lets change the rules of the most watched sport on the planet to make it more tough, like we are! Pussy europeans!
Europeans are gay. Sawker is European. Therefore Sawker is gay.
Bulletproof loggic.
Americans are tough, high scoring macho men.
Europeans are weak, feminine gays.
American football is the most exciting sport with all that tights and man on man grinding. Its so fucking tough, get the pads soldier! Make a blitz for that foreign territory! USA USA USA!!
Funny how its more watched than any other sport in the world. Seems “bore ass” attracts people to watching a sport. Since “we all know that”….
What sports you happen to grow up with in your culture is what sports you are going to find exciting.
Europeans grow up with soccer, rugby and handball and they love them and get excited by them.
Americans grow up with football, baseball and basketball and they love them and get excited by them.
NO sport is intrinsically exciting. Its all how you look at it and is mandated by what culture you grow up in.
Fuck Man U Fuck Glazer and fuck Ronaldo.
A-R-S-E-N-A-L this season all season long.
Sawker sucks. NOthing happens unlike in baseball! Foreigners suck. American culture is superior. Fuck you eurofags we will bomb you bitches.
Sawker sucks I’m ‘merican!!! American sports are better than sawker cuz they be ‘merican!!! Sawker is foreign sport terrorism from inferior foreigners who are too feminine to know that sawker isn’t a real sport.
Baseball = real sport.
Football = real sport.
Sawker aka foreign faggotball = not a sport, requires zero skill.
America is the greatest. down with sawker, up with capitalism and th american way. Sawker is a direct threat to americanism and all americans must be condescending and hateful anytime this eurofag fake-sport of sawker is mentioned. Yell it loud white america: SAWKER SUCKS USA IS SUPERIOR USA USA USA!!!
Actually, I can’t even argue about “Arse”nal, because I could really give less than a shit about them.
Honestly, I’m a Liverpool fan purely because Rafa signed the Gremista Lucas and I’ve been waiting for his career to take off. But since Lucas has only started/been used as a sub about 5 times, I’m getting back on the Man U bandwagon that I came off.
Can’t argue, Cristiano is a bit of a crybaby.
I second this opinion
This is why people hates americans
First of all Football “sawker” like you say it is the real and only football. How can you call something football if you play 99.5% with your hands you should call it handball. Your American Gridiron Football is full of criminals, gangbangers, drug addicts/traffickers dog killers. While football is played by European, Asian and South American people that drive expensive cars with model wags(wife and girlfriends for you stupid american). Baseball is freaking boring and Asians and Latins are beating you in a game you invented. Your gridiron handball is a modification of rugby who was invented by british immigrants. If football doesn’t require skill I dare you go try it out for at least 10 minutes and tell them what you said about the sport I bet you you will change your mind
“Sawker aka foreign faggotball = not a sport, requires zero skill.”
Ahah, I bet I can dribble with my feet and you could never ever take the ball of off me, even if you’re gonna use hands. Just to point out your “requires zero skill”. Like two californian guys last summer in Tuscany, they tried for half an hour and never get the ball. LOL.
And I swear that if football would give 3 points for a goal made outside of area and the matches would have ended with results like 11-7, americans would be die-hard fans of football.
Soccer is so much running and so little scoring. It can be frustrating playing and even more so watching because scoring is so hard and you almost have to be good and lucky at the same time to make a goal.
On the other hand that is what makes soccer great. It also gives a lot of players chances to get in the action. Another good thing about it is that people of all sizes can be good players unlike some of our sports where there are only a few smaller people who are actually good.
Face it: soccer or “football is a cool sport, in europe and Latin America. Soccer is cool to have the little kids play in the United States. Its a perfect game for the kids, but as they get older no one wants to continue. Hey its cool “over there” but not here. No big deal. scooooooorrrrrrrreeeee!
Soccer is not an American (white) sport. It will never be cool or accepted in America.
IMPO, the only reason American Football is so popular is because they were trying to be different from the mother land. This being said by an American.
I didn’t play it as a child (and that’s probably a good thing. my list of injuries from just playing basketball and softball is lengthy. imagine if i had played a semi contact sport.) but i fell into it after watching a movie about it (greenstreet hooligans). At first I just liked the hooligans, but then i started watching the games. and i liked it.
it might not be a lot of scoring, and yes, it’s frustrating when your team is doing well then WHAM. the ball get’s taken or stolen, or your guy falls and gets taken off in a stretcher, but, that’s what makes it so exciting when they do score.
Anyone who says that soccer is boring and takes little skill is wrong. If it was so easy to play, go out on a field and try dribbling the ball without tripping over it. Try scoring a goal on an experienced goalie, then come back and say it takes little skill.
I might not encompass the complete passion for the game the way they do in Europe, but I love my team (West Ham), till I die.
Foreigners sucks and so does soccer. America #1 our culture dominates the world so fuck soccer and foreign gay crap. You gay foreigners can have your gay-sex soccer all you want, america will always win and soccer always loses. USA greatest country in the world we hate soccer fuck u Europe!!!!
Millions of people in Europe, South America and elsewhere love soccer. Soccer is proof that millions of people can be wrong. Go Steelers!
Well, I guess we have at least one white guy who does not like the idea of soccer on this sight, or grammar, for that matter.
How’s that mortgage crisis going? Although living in a trailer you probably werent effected. lol
I think it is because it also lacks burly men trying to grab and pin each other to the ground in mock homoerotic prison sex fantasy scenarios.
White americans hate foreigners and soccer. Fuck soccer. Fuck u Mexicans. This is America, the greatest and most superior culture in the world. Soccer is for poor third worlders who can’t afford real sports like baseball and football. If those sissy brown towlheads ever saw football, they would drop fucking sheep and soccer and start playing a real sport. Fucking sissy foreingers.
USA USA USA! Soccer sucks!
wow….you’re ignorance is limitless, for your information soccer (called in Europe and South America “Football”) was created in Europe and 90% of the world enjoys football (or soccer as americans call it) and the Mexicans are not the only ones that play it.
Site not sight, Grammarman.
American Football keeps the slave era alive in the form of a Whitey/Negro dynamic lived out in a Gladiator-like spectacle that appeals to fat, conservative war-mongering white Americans and is the perfect vehicle for marketing to them (trucks, beer, more gladiator sports, tits-and-ass and high fat foods). It is particularly popular and more of a religion in the south where the majority of these males take great pride in these traits and values, if they can be called either.
Basically the plantation owner(s), the quarterback, the coach, and some other honky higher-ups fret out a quasi-intellectual “war” with “strategy” and employ the protection of an army of big black bucks (the slaves) to take all the heat, do the dirty work and get paid way less than their counterparts in much less physically violent sports like baseball and basketball. White Americans, particularly southerners, enjoy this as a wild religious experience, for it mimics a time in the past…a glorious, vibrant, bigoted reality that surely was a finer time for the superior white man. Look what a pussy he’s become, having to even read a “blog”, about SOCCER of all things, and choose between a black president or a pushy female VP…oh how the white man has fallen.
Rah Rah Rah….USA! Number 1….uh, where’d I set down that Frappucino?
So funny. My son, blonde-hair and blue eyed, has been asking to play soccer since he was 3. Never saw a game before. I think he just likes the idea of kicking a ball.
Also, almost all white people played soccer in grade school or high school. Those who played (American) football instead are the wrong kind of white people.
I, being white, really wanted to play soccer. But I was not athletic enough, so I had to do other white things like school plays and the school newspaper.
most people I know that are white, including me hate soccer. This is the ONLY thing on the list I don’t agree with.
Soccer is the devil, its unamerican and represents everything that the average white american hates. Fucking foreigners bringing their little fagball here and trying to get us to like it, go back you your shitty third world huts you inferior foreign sissies.
USA is #1!
Right on my white cuzin! We HATE soccer with a passion. We are actively against it. Soccer sissies.
I love how Americans find “soccer” (it’s football, you fucks) a sissy sport.
Er, what’s with all the padding in your ‘American football’? Did you know the Europeans play the same sport but without any sissy-boy pads? 🙂
Lol Most white people live in Europe where winning the World cup or Euro cup in football is far more important than winning gold medals on the Olympics. There is no armor and a lot of injuries so it’s definatly not a sissy sport (like basket :P) (if you don’t know what I mean try to do one of your kicks to put the ball over the bars between the posts and hit someone instead of the ball…. without armor but a thin protection for the tibia for wich I don’t know the english name. Likelly you’ll both be injured and it will be A LOT worse than a 2m tall guy jumping and hitting you on the head- that’s the worse injury I can thing of in basket and at most will knock you uncounscious for a while…. not kill you a football kick on the head however might do that. ).
I don’t even know the rules of baseball I just assume it’s as sissy as it looks….. at least you got hockey 😛
Yeah, but the scarves are so cool, and they remind me of when I was studying abroad in South Africa, and the fact that I used to drink so much Castle Milk Stout Lager, and of course you can’t get that in San Francisco…
The best soccer moment of all time, that Zidane headbutt, because it was kind of like the NFL.
us english love football woops sorry soccer because its a great game and we also invented it….up the foxes..in case u didnt known who i mean its…leicester city football club…
No REAL AMERICAN would ever like soccer, all of america is united in visciously hating soccer. Liberals who hate AMERICA tell us that we should accept soccer, but every AMERICAN knows that soccer is a gay, shitty, loser, boring, crap, fake, europussy sport that we must all unite in hating every time it is mentioned.
If you hear someone talk about soccer, we will ridicule them and call them fags for thinking about soccer. Proud white american people HATE soccer with a passion. Die soccer die you piece of shit liberal fake eurosport.
Are you a skin head? Your comment indicates white American supremacy. I look at this for humor and your comment has gone too far.
That was a hilariously amazing post.
Wanna be -fascist- patriots don’t like real football (soccer) because it requires real support, like standing a whole game…something most of them are incapable of….
Interesting facts.I have bookmarked this site. stephanazs
This is sooooo true!!!
Also, really, if they say their favorite “futbol” team is an MLS team, you know they don’t hardly know anything about soccer. The MLS is a joke compared to the rest of the world’s soccer.
Both soccer and Football are amazing sports. Im a die hard redskins fan ever since i moved to the states, but soccer has hooligans in other countries that do cool shit like drink together and cause chaos. i wish football teams here in the states had violent gangs associated with it. soccer has more die hard fans than football.
Funny… I went to a breakfast joint this morning, and saw a young white dude in a vintage led zep t-shirt sitting next to another white dude in a soccer shirt, reading a soccer news mag. This is some funny shit.
Well, there was I, quite happily whiling away a few hours chuckling at the illiterate ramblings and hissy invective, and you go and have to spoil it by posting something interesting, informative and well-written.
God damn you Sir, God damn you to hell.
Dude, I was just at the Canada vs Jamaica and the Canada vs Honduras WC Qualifying matches in Toronto and Montreal.
There was heavy drinking involved. There were gangs of us Canuck fans wearing read jerseys. No chaos like in Europe. The security held us all back after the games to avoid fights. But a lot of fun.
You call yourself Joe Smith, but we all know you’re really Hank Hill from Arlen, Texas. You have a son, Bobby, who’s dream is to become a prop comic. And you have a narrow urethra. 🙂
Didn’t you hear? The only thing “sissier” than soccer is baseball… America’s pass time.
The only reason guys like this hate soccer is because they become slightly aroused by David Beckham. That scares them! And the fact that there’s almost nothing to stop you from peeking at his nads in those shorts. 🙂
So far, America has 13 Major League Soccer teams (the 14th is in Toronto).
Two are in Texas! Can you believe that? Texas! Yet you say “it will never be cool”.
America likes American Gladiators and the Hulkster too. They like TNA wresting and UFC. All these “sports” require just as much or as little skill as soccer. Probably less in most cases.
To boot, they have lots of guys wearing almost no clothing getting really close to each other, and grabbing each other in places that are dangerously close to their packages. I think that’s just as weird. 🙂
Compare the action you get in a soccer game to that you get in a footbawl game: an hour of Am. footbawl has about 12 minutes of action. Do you know how truly boring that is Hank?
I work with a number of white guys who are serious soccer fans – it’s no ploy with them. I always ask what I’m missing. I just don’t get it.
I like watching my kids play soccer. I completely miss the excitement of the beautiful game. Give me gridiron ball anyday. Now that’s a sport…or LAX.
All americans hate soccer, its the patriotic white american thing to do. Sure we lets our kids do it because its wastes their energy, and soccer is a pussy fake unappealing shiity euroliberal thirdworldfag game. All americans will instantly say “SOCCER SUCKS!” whenever this eurosport is mentioned. SOCCER SUCKS AMERICA is the #1 GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. AMERICAN CULTURE DOMINATES THE WORLD FUCK SOCCER YOU FOREIGN QUEERS AMERICA WINS AND DESTORYS SOCCER AND YOU FOREIGN FAGS!
You see if you are a soccer fan and you name your local MLS club, as a favorite. That means, you are a fan of the game. You don’t have to only watch games from Europe. If you are a fan, you watch games from all over the world, it does not matter. But, the number one thing is to support your local team. Unlike, NFL or NBA fans, they just pick a new team, every year.
Hey Jethro,
Isn’t it time for your klan meeting now???
In case you weren’t aware, EVERYBODY in the world is playing soccer.
Do you know any Skinheads? They have a tendancy to love on British stuff in general… they typically idolize soccer hooligan antics. So, quin… maybe you should fact check a bit?
You use a lot of commas. You should get this checked out by a medical professional or English teacher
raj,
You’re all wrong. Not everyone plays soccer and they play futbol.
Please don’t interrup Average AMerican during his moment of abstract lucidity.
i wouldn’t tell you that i’m very into soccer but i do like it. i would be all about it if i lived in england and could be into the english premier league
I love watching soccer, but it my sister had to start playing to get me into it. GO NITRO! She gave it up for cheerleading and tennis.
And at every opportunity, make sure to explain to people outside your clique that soccer is actually called “football” in other countries, and as popular in those places as American “football” is in America.
SOCCER (its not called football) is a gay, effete, dumb, boring, shitty pseudo sport that comes from sissy U-rope. Soccer is a gay European sport that every patriotic AMERICAN!!! (USA is the greatest) hates with a passion!
Americans are superior to non-Americans, hence everything that is AMERICAN is superior to that which is non-American.
AMERICAN sports >>>> SOCCER
AMERICAN athletes >>>> SOCCER
AMERICAN culture >>>>> SOCCER
AMERICAN everything >>>>> SOCCER
AMERICA is simply the most superior country in the world. Every AMERICAN believes this.
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
Stupid white Americans : see below for an example
Why did you even bother posting? The point of this thread is to discuss why white people like the idea of soccer. That’s not an invitation to go on an anti-European Americana glorification campaign.
This goes to show you that white people who don’t like the idea of soccer (or soccer itself) are incredibly simple minded, obnoxious people.
I take pity on you.
americans, you are not alone. us filipinos don’t even know what soccer is. well certainly filipinos who have been to other countries other than america had began to love soccer. but still a lot of filipinos don’t really pay attention to soccer.
ask a typical filipino in the philippines. “do you play soccer?”
answer is:”is soccer another form of basketball?”
LOL. our world is crazy
PS: i am filipino
EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD?
Philippines is an exception. America, we are with you! LOL
TWKOWP
it makes me sad that people think like this
I am as patriotic an American as they come- I am serving my country in the United States Army – and I enjoy Football (or as you say Soccer). Go ahead, call me unAmerican for liking a sport that doesn’t involve tackling people or hitting things with a stick.
Perhaps you just don’t have the mental capacity to understand what is going on in front of your eyes.
People like you, sir, are the reason that the rest of the world hates Americans.
That’s it. I’m tired of all the incorrect assumptions about me based on all the Average Americans who are idiots. I’m moving to Canada.
Love it. Love soccer.. yet it’s actually “Futbol” in other countrys, not “Football”.
Um yeah except for in England where the game, and the language, were invented.
Don’t forget even 30th place get s a trophey in childrens soccer…so get your kids in there because they are all winners…or nobody really care and it is just cool (for white people).
Actually, no it isn’t. Unless you mean in every Spanish speaking country. Otherwise, it’s football. Do some research.
Hey douchehole; here’s a challenge. You put on your all-American college star linebacker jersey, helmet and pads, I’ll do the same, then you tackle me, once. Then you strap on a pair of flimsy shin pads and I take out your ankles with my studs. We’ll see who winds up in the emergency room.
Everyone who thinks soccer aka Futbol is not a sport and takes little skill is just ignorant. Personally i agree with the Europeans that say most Americans are ignorant when it comes to the way they think and talk…. people are saying that it is not a real sport and that nobody watches it. Soccer is the most watched sport in the world, more so than Football, Baseball, and Basketball combined. The soccer world cup had more viewers than the Olympics did. So grow up and diversify yourselves!!!!!!
Haha. Please continue to threaten to move to Canada
It’s football in the UK!
AMERICAN CULTURE DOMINATES THE WORLD ?????
america doesn’t even have an own culture you dumbfuck its a mix of europian and african cultures… loser
The point is that white-collar Americans who look down on basketball and American football often claim they like soccer. So don’t get your panties in a bunch. My favorite team is Red Star Belgrade.
And, of course, soccer is an excellent activity for children.
SOCCER (its not called football) is a gay, effete, dumb, boring, shitty pseudo sport that comes from sissy U-rope. Soccer is a gay European sport that every patriotic AMERICAN!!! (USA is the greatest) hates with a passion!
Americans are superior to non-Americans, hence everything that is AMERICAN is superior to that which is non-American.
AMERICAN sports >>>> SOCCER
AMERICAN athletes >>>> SOCCER
AMERICAN culture >>>>> SOCCER
AMERICAN everything >>>>> SOCCER
AMERICA is simply the most superior country in the world. Every AMERICAN believes this.
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
Don’t forget Tennis! I have racquet and balls in the trunk of my car, yet I suck and rarely play! But I do pretend to like it.
White people on like the idea of soccer, not the game? You already knew that soccer was phenomenally popular in Europe before you posted your blog entry.
So are we all faking it over here, or are Germans, Scots, Croats etc… not white?
The whole basis of your website is that white people go around living in a bubble, and they think that what they do is ‘normal’ when in fact its particular to their culture. And you’ve done the same thing yourself?
Email me. Go on, you’ve got the address. I would like to hear you justify this, but don’t swear. It won’t get through the filter.
Note: Europeans are actually into Soccer and are exempt from this entry, however they are free to use it to their advantage when in North America.
Wow, that was quick. And you didn’t even need to email me.
Someone better inform all those Mexican Americans I knew in Texas that soccer is stuff that white people like. Or is it OK that they like it too?
SOCCER (its not called football) is a gay, effete, dumb, boring, shitty pseudo sport that comes from sissy U-rope. Soccer is a gay European sport that every patriotic AMERICAN!!! (USA is the greatest) hates with a passion!
Americans are superior to non-Americans, hence everything that is AMERICAN is superior to that which is non-American.
AMERICAN sports >>>> SOCCER
AMERICAN athletes >>>> SOCCER
AMERICAN culture >>>>> SOCCER
AMERICAN everything >>>>> SOCCER
AMERICA is simply the most superior country in the world. Every AMERICAN believes this.
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!!
SOCCER SUCKS!!! AMERICA IS THE GREATEST!!! YEAH!
Stuff Imperialist/Snobby/American White People Like…there renamed the blog to be more accurate…
Anyone else spot the irony in the “Rah! Rah! America is the greatest” drivel being written by an “Average American?”
AMERICA, FUCK YEA!!!!!!!!!!
you’re an idiot. Its NOT soccer its football. American “football” has no right to be called football simply because the only time they use their feet for other than running is to punt.
America is not superior to everyone else, im an American but im not ignorant 🙂
Japanese cars > American Cars
Football > American “football”
Foreign food > American Food
Your stupidity > Everyone else’s
Now go ride your dodge truck with your camouflaged hat! 😉
oh yeah, because in soccer we get so many pads and time outs, football is such a touugh sport
“ooh im gonna run for 5 seconds and then take a break and slap a mans ass” wow you must be a tough guy if you like football. i would pay to see you last five minutes in a sport like soccer
Anyone else spot the irony of “MD” pointing out irony while missing the joke? For the benefit of slower readers: “Average American” was *mocking* stereotypical Americans.
And “v” seems to think the difficulty of running around for 90 minutes makes soccer more entertaining. It does not. That actually just makes it good exercise.
I don’t know why so many people compare soccer to American football (the name?) when it has so much more in common with Nascar – the same boring thing happening continuously until I change the channel.
In watching soccer, it helps to have played. Easier to see patterns and method behind what can appear to be random running around to a newcomer.
why do white people love to point out the irony?
americans only play gay american sports, whats that about
world series crap, only american teams in it hello world series there is a non clue in the title, NHL CRAP, NFL CRAP, DONT GET ME STARTED ON YOUR GIRLY SPORT OF NETBALL(SORRY BASKETBALL)
BOMBING COUNTRIES FOR OIL IS ALL YOU YANKIES ARE GOOD FOR
Get a clue: Toronto is still a CANADIAN city! Therefore, World Series. At least our sports ( BASEBALL, basketball, football, NASCAR) are straight, unlike, well – YOU!
If it’s not football, then feel free to contact Paul Tagliabue and inform him that he had been the commissioner of the wrong sports league (BTW, the name Tagliabue roughly translates to ‘cut the steer’. Tough man, tough name, tough sport, hmmm… am I the only one to see the links?). Anyway, most Japanese cars are made in America, so essentially Japanese cars ARE American cars. Soccer is not, and never will be, football. It isn’t even a p**s-poor substitute for it. Foreign food IS American food, as our cuisine is, like our population, a mix of other countries’ cuisines. And as far as YOUR stupidity is concerned, I agree that you are dumber than the average slug. Slither away, little slug, and go watch your SOCCER! 😛
the first thing that WPs do when meeting an English person is start talking about soccer and then laughingly call it “football” it’s annoying, but I’d do the same thing.
I don’t think thats why white people play soccer just to get a scarf because when it’s summer time they don’t wear scarfs so why would they play in the summer time if they only want the scarfs but not only white people like soccer because I use to love playing soccer and volleyball in the summer with my family.
I just can’t see how Europeans got the idea that soccer is somehow a sport for tough guys. It is completely illogical the only time there is any contact you get a penalty oops sorry a card (whatever the hell that means). Even baseball players are tougher than soccer players.
Soccer technically isn’t a sport. It’s a type of endurance exercise European ladies invented when the men went off to surrender to a foreign invader.
I play soccer, and its a tough sport
its straight running for two 45 minute halves, with intense playing at that?
football? you rest every 8 seconds
basketball? the game stops every other minute
baseball? sure you have to be strong but its not even a contact sport
socccer might seem like a pansy sport but wait until you step on the field and get busted in the eye
Americans hate soccer with a passion. We will always insult it no matter what. We will always question the masculinity of the millions who play it and the billions who watch it. We are superior because we are American, our sports are superior, foreign sports are inferior.
This is the mindset that no matter what you soccer fags will never change. America’s culture and sports dominate the world. Soccer is weak.
This is because Europeans are gay and effeminate. SO are Asians, Africans, South Americans and everybody else who likes soccer. Soccer = weak and sissy. America is right, everybody else is wrong. Plan and simple.
Sissy foreigners, we Americans are uber tough macho he-man. We watch uber tough macho he-man sports like football, not that gay foreign sissy lame soccer.
AMERICA FUCK YEAH!
If all Europeans were gay there wouldn’t be any of them left. Which would make the world an almost magical place, it would be so wonderful.
American sports suck! If you think American football is manly, try playing rugby–all the hitting without blockers to protect you, without breaks, and without being able to run out of bounds to protect your wussy arse without turning the ball over. Oh, and no pads.
As for soccer, it’s call the beautiful game for a reason.
Wrong. Grid Iron is less a ghey game than soccer, but if you read right you’d see they wear padding. FFS, what’s it for? So the little darlings don’t hurt themselvesAussie NRL is the real game.
Bundesliga is the bomb nigga
You get those whitey rednecks…so them who’s the top European traveler.
As for manly sports, I pick UFC, alot of white people like it too.
Ching chong bitches, don’t fuck with basketball since that is one of the fastest growing global sports, chinese like it and so do enlightened europeans: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2008/08/spanish-tennis.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/aug/11/olympicsbasketball.olympics20081?loc=interstitialskip
AMERICA FUCK YEAH!!!
SOCCER FUCK NO!!
SOCCER IS A GAY HOMO FAG SPORT FOR FAGS (FOREIGNERS) AMERICA IS SO MANLY BIG MUSCLES TOUGH BIG HITS MACHO BIG BALLS YEAH BIG TOUGH YEAH FOOTBALL IS SO BIG YEAH BIG MUSCLE.
hahaha, you’re being ironic aren’t you? Let me guess…you’re white? You like football (European) also?
BIG BALLS FOOTBALL HAS BIG BALLS!
SOCCER IS PANSY ASS PUSSY EUROFAGS!!
Soccer is for effeminate gays/europeans and real men are only seen in America they play real manly sports like baseball and football, YEAH BIG BALLS!
Dude, I love soccer. I play it and watch it and no I don’t own a scarf
AMERICA FUCK YEAH!!!
SOCCER FUCK NO!! FOREIGNERS/SOCCER IS LAME!
SOCCER IS A GAY HOMO FAG SPORT FOR FAGS (FOREIGNERS) AMERICA IS SO MANLY BIG MUSCLES TOUGH BIG HITS MACHO BIG BALLS YEAH BIG TOUGH YEAH FOOTBALL IS SO BIG YEAH BIG MUSCLE.
wow, thanks for representing the machismo of america so… eloquently. I’m sure allllllll the people out there who aren’t like you feel awful about themselves now. NOPE.
what community college do you go to? Did you “travel abroad” for your European Studies major? Did your mom help pay for that?
Wow, I totally did not like soccer until I got stuck in London with no other sports to watch for a semester. Spot on.
I did come back and play in an adult league, and I have a scarf.
But I also got every MLS game of my local team, made a trip to see team USA, and watch my euro team’s every game. Does this make me legit or not?
Its not about being legit. Its funny, it should be even funnier if you feel that it applies to you in some way. And if it points out that you’re a bit obnoxious you should glean some self awareness.
Why cant people just laugh at what is funny?
It’s quite obvious this article was written especially for you. You should probably counter with a comment that says nothing. Oh wait.
I think its common with other races too, for example – asians (or atleast desis, hope you guys know who desis are – indians, bangladeshis & pakistanis) pretend that they love american football though they don’t know a shit ’bout it. They just try to impress fellow american people.. Deep inside i know that I am a little bit like that too, though i try to learn and follow the game as much as I can.
OHH MY GOD, I DID THAT AFTER I WENT TO SPAIN!!!
Although, honestl, i did mean to follow it more afterwords, i just never got around to it…
I think people don’t like it is the scoring system, they can’t understand why 22 men worked for 90 minute, often resulted 1:0, 1:1, or sometimes even 0:0… it is unacceptable for most of American Whiter Guys, if they play, they would feel like a loser in the end, very unAmerican lol 🙂
Ok so if exposure to soccer abroad being a reason to get into it makes one a soccer phony, then how do you expect people to get into soccer?
*crickets chirping*
Well, I do like soccer, and follow it, and debate it continuously with an English friend of mine (he gives me total shit for following West Ham, and I duly give him total crap for being a “typical ‘I like Spurs or Liverpool / Chelsea Manchester / name your typically known team here’ knob / cockney wanker” all in good heart of course). You wanna rewrite this post with regard to people pretending to like Cricket (no, I’m not from the UK, I’m from NZ and at the moment we’ve got a shit team I’ll admit, but that’s another story altogether!) – that’ll twist some heads for those who don’t understand how a game can go for 1, 3 or 5 days and actually be bloody exciting despite appearing like people standing around doing nothing for long stretches 🙂 I, for my part, can’t understand how people can take a game like American Football and allow the flow to be dictated by TV advertising of all things for gods sake … but hey, each to their own I guess.
Don’t worry – we ‘fags’ outside the US don’t all hate people who reside there, only the knobs like him. American Footballers have to use pads, so in actual fact, they’re a pack of wusses by and large 🙂 Get them to take on our All Blacks in NZ and we’ll wipe the floor with them for you to make up for his comments anytime 🙂
Futbol is a great sport. Americans are playing more and more. Look at Landon Donovan,He is on loan to the Bundesliga. David Beckham has brought some recognition to our own professional league. It is not the dominating sport in the USA ,but it is making strides.We have to give it some time to grow and more Americans need to nurture our young talent.
Check out http://www.MLSNET.com or http://www.bigsoccer.com also http://www.coming to mls rumors.com
I think you missed the point, fella.
soccer?? are you serious? i hate it. and isn’t that a mexican sport anyway?
hahahahaha, people take this site way too seriously.
This post title is very apt, the idea of soccer. I find that most Americans are working very hard to like soccer, but when forced to watch an entire game (without commercial interruptions!) become idignant that the score is not 16 to 12, are particularly incensed that the clock goes upward, and are completely unable to comprehend the concept of injury time. They then promptly switch back to see Kobe or Allen Iverson go 12 for 36 and score 40 points!
Note: This only happens every 4 years when the World cup is actually on television and every white American feels obliged to better understand other cultures by seeing what the fuss is about.
This site should be called things that rich white Americans like. Last time I checked most of Britain, France, Germany and the rest of Europe were really into soccer (football).
Another thing that white people are said to like is moving to Canada, most Europeans would never think about that. What about Russia, Australia and New Zealand…….. Its only about rich white Americans….. so get the title right!
Everyone likes football. This should be called “What Upper Middle Class Privately Educated Urban White Americans Like”. Although I think that is actually part of the joke …
I think most people would get that from the context- all the obvious tells in every single example but it would be insulting to most people’s cognitive abilities to mention white Americans in every single list item.
Americans hate soccer with a passion. We will always insult it no matter what. We will always question the masculinity of the millions who play it and the billions who watch it. We are superior because we are American, our sports are superior, foreign sports are inferior.
This is the mindset that no matter what you soccer fags will never change. America’s culture and sports dominate the world. Soccer is weak.
You embody everything the rest of the world hates about America. We even hate your stupid name. Get a sense of humour, douche bag.
So what sports are “American” sports?
– Amercian football is pretty much rugby with extra rules (written by some guy called Walter Camp).
– Baseball was first played in England.
– Basketball was invented by a Canadian.
And “America’s … sports dominate the world”? Please. Compare how big the football (soccer) world cup is compared to world tournaments for American football, baseball or basketball.
call Vinnie Jones a fag and see what happens
Only problem i have with this one is i grew up in st. louis where soccers pretty big. You can go back awhile but the 1950 us world cup win (1-0 over england) many players came from st. louis. Still today many players come out of st. louis
Actually, only north-americans are not into football. Latin-americans, europeans and africans breath and sweat football.
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Of course most of the world does not have indoor plumbing so popularity is not always a plus. Soccer is a good sport for adults who know nothing about sports to pretend to like. Big net, big ball, not much scoring, minimal strategy, lots of exercise. It’s good for five years old kids who have not developed enough hand eye coordination to play baseball.
I like it when they tell you about the civilized nature of soccer as opposed to baseball. I get to remind them that whole nations of soccer fans are banned from attending games. For all the idiocies of LL parents and Red Sox fans I can’t think of a baseball riot since disco night at Comiskey. People don’t shoot baseball players like they shoot goalies who have a bad day.
With exception to aboriginals, isn’t all of North America of African (including Carribean), Latin, and European descent? Isn’t that why the MLS exists?
Are you Hank Hill?
Are you mad because Bobby started playing for a while? Or that his coach made you feel awkward when he came over, juggling the ball with his knees, and you accidently saw his nads? 🙂
By the way, football barely exists outside the U.S. And soccer is globally more popular than hockey, baseball, or basketball. Even the CFL plays with their own rules.
To further complicate your argument, Americans watch darts and bowing tournaments, golf, and tennis. By your own definition, these sports would be “weak” too.
I’m white. Soccer sucks. Never pretended to like it and never will.
have you ever played real soccer? cuz baseball isnt really a team sport and a pack of monkeys could play it with a degree of success, football(soccer) takes more co-ordination, skill, and athleticism than pretty much any other sport there is, the only guys tougher, i would have to say are rugby players. and your idea that baseball is more civilized is like saying cave men built ancient greece, baseball is a bunch of juiced up monkeys swinging sticks, and how can an entire nation be banned from attending a game? and its only the arab countries that harm their team for a bad performance, no other country would do that
Soccer has a great flow to it, the action doesn’t stop. Baseball is like watching puddles evaporate. Sloooooooowwww and booorrrriinngggg.
I’m a white American dude and I love soccer. And this F150 guy is NOT what we’re like over here!
How can a nation get banned? Back in the 80s, all English football/soccer clubs and fans were banned from European competitions for five years after the Heysel Disaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_Stadium_disaster).
Dark times, but English football has recovered and learnt lessons so crowds nowadays are (generally) nothing like the violent mobs of previous decades. (you will get a small group of nutters, but they’re more the exception than the majority these days)
So the Colombian who was shot in the head for scoring a self goal against the United States in the ’94 World Cup, that doesn’t count? Or is Colombia an Arab country all of a sudden?
And as much as I love the sport of soccer (I played it for ten years), soccer players are not better athletes then football or basketball players. Not to mention a great soccer player with his hands tied behind his back could still beat most other players. Can’t really say that for many other sports.
And yes, I still consider it the Beautiful Game.
I felt like rioting every time I was forced to sit in a ball park to watch a baseball game. It is sooooo darn boring.
Why would anyone want to watch a bunch of out of shape guys standing around for hours, scratching themselves is beyond me.
same here when i saw this list fro the first time i fully expected baseball to be here
I bet you also drink a real man’s beer like Coors Light, or Bud Light, while enjoying one of your favorite American sports, played by so called “athletes”: a bunch of out of shape, overweight dudes wearing tights. YEAH; that’s really macho.
No wonder they are out of shape, all they do is stand around for a what seems like…forever. There is no action that lasts more than 3-4 seconds in either baseball or what you call football.
They “dominate sports”. What a joke.
Perhaps they would like it better if both teams started with 10 points and each goal counted for another 10?
That way, after 90 minutes (which are actually pretty close to 90 actual minutes, not 4 hours like in American football) a 1:1 draw would be something like 20:20.
It’s a cultural thing I guess. If you grow up watching it all the time it becomes part of you.
Also, the big events are scarce (once every four years) and the tension builds up. By the time the final tournament rolls around, if your team made it, the pressure is suffocating.
You’re gonna blow a fuse dude. Relax
Yinzer
Cristiano Ronaldo is a prissy little pretentious “fag” who takes himself way too seriously.
Aussies and Kiwies call football soccer ?
I had no idea
Yeah, who else is into that NFL of yours ?
They get it. They just took advantage of the opportunity to bash each other’s favorite sports. It seemed like a perfect venue for it
Lazio is the team that Rome’s lefties cheer for. AS Roma is for those on the right
There is always an exception…
Your hegemony is dying
You’re not worth it
It’s a good thing that Americans don’t play rugby. Also very convenient: you can avoid being embarrassed.
Soccer isn’t liked in America, because your owner (the media) doesn’t want you to like it. It is more profitable to show you commercials only occasionally intrerupted by a couple of minutes of american football or baseball.
They didn’t like you referencing Italians as diving prima donnas, because that’s another one of those cliches that people who know nothing about soccer, but like to pretend, are commonly using. The main cliche is posing as ManU, or AC Milan fans
Gaijin,
I saw those fake Japanese fans wearing German jerseys. What’s up with that. They had the Americans beat at phoniness.
Going to one game doesn’t mean you understand it. Saying that nothing happens just proves the point.
It is also difficult to get into a game that has no meaning to you, where there is nothing at stake. Benfica played Porto (or some other portuguese team) in a routine championship game. It would be hard to get excited about that without any other point of reference.
I’ve been forced to go to a bunch of baseball games and I hated every moment. I understand the rules, but I just don’t like the game. Nothing happens. There’s nothing at stake
I like your logic, but the dude sure doesn’t look Asian to me
It actually did happen in Columbia after the 1994 world cup. I believe a player was killed. Anyway, generalizing that one instance is a huge stretch
haha are you being serious? How could you possbily say Soccer has minimal strategy and then go on about baseball as if it is an actual sport. Get John Rocker’s dick out of your mouth and get exposed to something that exists outside of the U.S.
Its no Bloody wonder that the rest of the world hates the USA with comments like these. The problem is that a lot of Americans think this way. So selfish of a Country, no wonder your economy is failing. Everybody is in it for themselves….
Soccer rules!!! The pace of the game is exhilarating, the level of worldwide competition is the highest it’s ever been, and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
I think we found a narcoleptic! Maybe you should watch less interesting sports like baseball or gridiron 😀
This one cracked me up! I fit right in with this story. I always had a respect for football (soccer), but it wasn’t until I was in Berlin during the 2006 World Cup that I fell in love with football (soccer) and naturally came out with Germany as my favorite team. And I don’t know if this is rare over here in th USA, but I actually watched each Euro Cup game Germany was in, and a few others like Turkey (Some of the most exciting games I have ever seen. That Germany v Turkey game was the most nerve racking game I’ve ever watched, because Turkey could easily turn the whole thing around at the last minute. That team did a fantastic job, I think they should have made it to the finals seeing how poorly Germany performed against Spain.)
I’d like to see American “athletes” out perform football players for 90 minutes, or maybe 120 minutes just to give Americans an idea how physically tireing it is to perform at your best for that long. Baseball players would just pass out with their chewing tobacco oozing out of their mouths.
‘It’s good for five years old kids who have not developed enough hand eye coordination to play baseball’.
Wow, you’re a real academic sports and exercise science guru! Sounds like you’ve never left USA or even watched any kind of sport outside of that country. In Europe, any many other parts of the world, most kids don’t even know what baseball is. But they sure know what football is.
I like sport, I’ll watch most except carpet bowls. It makes me laugh how people can be so into one sport and totally slag another one off.
Bloody hell.
I can’t believe someone claimed soccer was for 5 year olds and had no strategy. What a genius.
Then uses baseball as an example of a real sport.
Baseball is the most boring game in the world. It has a 7th inning “stretch” so you can stand up and stretch, because you’ve done nothing but sit and be bored for 2 prior hours.
Fat people can and do play baseball, ffs.
Why is it that someone (who sounds american) is obligated to write a post like this about every discussion of soccer anywhere, anytime.
Is this some unknown constitutional amendment?
O.K. we all get you love the SEC et al. Fine, but what the f makes it so important to you to share your loathing for soccer?
It is so predictable and so boring – such a waste of space. (No I did not mean soccer, I meant your comment!)
This white person argument inevitiably begins with 1) It is the most popular sport in the world 2) It is the worlds game 3) Soccer is more complicated than american sports.
Sorry, I just cant watch for over an hour and a half and not have a score. Whats the score tom? Um…there is none.
for someone critiquing arguments yours is flawed….yes it is the most popular sport in the world.
Hopefully this changes in 50 years
“soccerlover”, read the “About” section… the whole blog will make alot more sense to you, apparently.
Meanwhile, I think this can be said of all “white people sports” — How many white people marathoners know who holds the world record in the Marathon, or who Kip Keino is? Per soccer, we whiteys will say “Pele” or “Ronaldo” or “Beckham”… which like assuming understanding of the roots of American Football by saying “Walter Payton”, “Randy Moss” and “Tom Brady”
The most popular sport in the world dictates that participants cant legally use their most useful appendages (read arms/hands – opposable thumbs!) – this is tantamount to forcing the worlds most spectcular athletes on the planet to participate in the special olympics.
I gotta go- its halftime and I want my orange slices!
– ‘merica
Americans hate soccer with a passion. We will always insult it no matter what. We will always question the masculinity of the millions who play it and the billions who watch it, nothing will change that. We are superior because we are American, our sports are superior, foreign sports are inferior.
This is the mindset that no matter what you soccer fags will never change. America’s culture and sports dominate the world. Soccer is inferior, for weak people of lesser physical and mental stature to Americans. Soccer sucks.
While this section is applicable to many white people but people who actually go to MLS games more than likely do like soccer. The “coolness” of europosery doesnt really work when telling a friend that you went to see The Columbus Crew beat Kansas City last weekend. Most white people who also hate soccer do so because they dont understand the game and dislike the idea of a “foreign” sport.
Soccer is the most effemanate, unmanly/unamerican, pansy foreigner thing ever as the great patriot Frank Hill said “Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking.” No real man (ie. American white non-hispanic male) would ever dream of even thinking of soccer without telling others how much soccer sucks and how its a pansy sport played only in europe by sissy french and that its inherently more boring than real sports like baseball, football and nascar.
no, everyone hates soccer because it sucks. its as simple as that, inferior sport, inferior “athletes”. real sports are american anyway.
while I agree soccer is pretty crappy, it is a sport, while nascar on the other hand is an excuse for rednecks to get drunk, watch car accidents, and beat their wives.
The whole world agrees that soccer is crappy. Nascar is ten times more manly and cool than soccer.
I think you are an idiot have u ever watched a Futbol game. It is by far the most athletically demanding sport there is, and if u see the violence that goes into it and the futbol fans you would realize that. Futbol is very more physical then pansy ass football people wear pads and tights and run around grabbing one another. Nascar is just funny as hell cause its one big circle and a left turn. I salute you you stupid under educated american
Perhaps your post is absolutely accurate. Too bad it is insufferably boring. Zero-Zero (nil-nil for you Mark) is not a score. It decides nothing other than a reason to get drunk while watching sweaty men run around a grass field without being able to use their hands (See my previous post regarding the special olympics). And the partons that attend the game are uncaged animals. So lets recap:
1)Watching handicapped sweaty men run around outdoors
1a) And flopping on the ground at the mere suggestion of any contact whatsoever.
2)The distinct possiblity of the game being completely meaningless
3)Drinking (possibly the only redeemable trait here)
4)Getting the shit beat out of you by an intoxicated mob that got so fucked up they wont remember the next day that they spent a gazillion euros and the last 90 minutes of their life watching a meaningless “match”.
Awesome.
I do agree on Nascar however. The crashes can be interesting. “Futbol” can be on the same level of Nascar if they placed random land mines on the field.
You are and absolute dumbass. NASCAR is not even a sport you moron. The comment the whole world agrees soccer is “crappy”, may be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard considering it is by far the most popular sport in the world.
soccer is the most meaningless and nihilistic sport ever, totally worthless unlike our sports which have high scoring and are therefore superior. in nascar there in advancement and scoring, soocer has no scoring, its the third world socialist belief that reward does not result from effort and that effort does not equal reward. Soccer is communist, its for pansy commies who want Obama in office and to watch the boredom of no scoring, real sports have high scores losers.
Soccer is inferior to REAL sports. The fact is that soccer isn’t cool and NFL will overtake it in other countries soon, cementing american superiority.
Wrong, dumb ass. More people watch futbol in person and onTV in a season than pussy ball.
Capitalize ‘American’ when you write it, fuck brain. Lick my dick, too. Polish the shoes while you’re at it.
See above comment.
Don’t forget stints in the military as a surrogate for traveling. During my stay in Germany I transformed into a fan of Fussball Club Kaiserslautern (FCK), for no reason other than their initials.
The mojor reason for this was because live American sporting events were infrequent and occurred way past my bedtime.
After I returned to “The World”, I quickly forgot about soccer until 2006.
For some reason I began taking an interest in the World Cup. I think it was because their website had a nice-looking bracket similar to the NCAA basketball tournament.
Oops forgot to mention — I may be the only American who respects the French after what Zidane did to that Italian dude.
You mentioned in your first post that you like baseball, and then talk about how soccer sucks because of low scores. A contradiction from such a spectacularly intelligent person? Never! A moronic lack of attention is one of your obviously spectacular character traits, good sir. I hate soccer. Almost as much as I hate morons.
Soccer is for pussies.
its true no wonder non-americans like it. Have you ever seen a foreigners who wasn’t a pansy little dweeb uncool fag? Have you ever seen a confident and tough manly guy that wasn’t American?
I rest my case.
America Fuck YEAH!
and baseball isn’t? Most boring sport ever, except for maybe cricket!!
dream on! trust me on this one. no chance. people I know who watch the superbowl in Germany — 1. world cup — every living soul. i love NFL but it is a little different. Fun but no real passion. Soccer has passion and hot players that you can see.
Quite a few actually! Married to one actually!!
and Formula One? or does that count?
I know you are just being silly but the rest of the world fights their wars on the soccer field if you didn’t notice. No bombs, No blood just a lot of pissed off soccer fans because Italy won. No better party in the world then the World Cup, trust me I have been to a lot(including the Super Bowl), Gator tailgating, you name it. Nothing better then being at the World Cup, extreme crazy!!!
The fact is that AMerican sports just like AMerican culture is superior to foreign culture, its a fact, a cold hard objective fact. baseball is ten times more exciting than soccer, in soccer nothing every happens, no stats whatsoever, 0-0 game and stupid foreigners think this isn’t boring. Get a life you lame eurofags and all the thirdworlders, soccer sucks, you don’t understand how uncool you look associating with soccer when its the most unpopular sport in existance and everyone on TV makes fun of it and riducles it for soccerfags.
According to some comments on this site, foreigners are pussies and soccer is for fags. But they’ve obviously forgotten about Zidane. That guy would beat the hell out of anybody who called him either of those things.
How is this different than tennis (you can only use the racket) or golf (clubs) ? You can’t throw the ball in either sport.
Yes, quite a few actually. My brother, most of my guy friends.
Um, how are foreigners and women the same thing. Don’t they have women in America?
Personally, I prefer hockey, and soccer over baseball.
Listen here mate, first of all its FOOTBALL!!! BEFORE YOU START COMMENTING ON THIS GAME, LEARN WHAT IT IS ACTUALLY CALLED RATHER THAN MAKING UP YOUR OWN NAME AND SPELLING FOR IT.
AND BACK OFF FROM MANCHESTER UNITED MATE, OR LIVERPOOL OR BLACKPOOL OR ARSENAL OR TOTTENHAM HOTSPURS OR CHELSEA OR BLACKBURN OR LEEDS ETC..
YOU CANT EVEN GET THE NAME OF THE GAME CORRECT!
DONT CALL FOOTBALL BY ANOTHER NAME.
YOU AMERICANS KNOW SHIT ABOUT FOOTBALL SO BACK OFF MATE!
LONG LIVE FOOTBALL AND THOSE FANS WHO BRAVE AGAINTS ALL ODDS TO SUPPORT THEIR FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
HAIL MANCHESTER UNITED!
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
LIFE IS FOOTBALL
FOOTBALL IS MANCHESTER UNITED
YEAH MATE SOCCER IS FOR PUSSIES AND THEY CAN BE FOUND BY BLASPHEMOUS LOADS IN AMERICA.
FOOTBALL IS FOR MEN.
START USING THE CORRECT TERM
LIFE IS FOOTBALL
FOOTBALL IS MANCHESTER UNITED!
MATE YOU ARE PITIFUL PIECE HISTORY! AMERICA HAS ONLY KNOWN HOW TO SUCK!
AND SUCK THEY DO AT EVERYTHING: JEWS, ARABS, BLACKS, CHINESE, PEKINESE, ASIAN LATINO FREAKAHOLICS
AMERIPUSSIES LEARN THE NAME OF THE GAME: FOOTBALL.
AND AS FOR YOUR SUPERIORITY, TIME AND AGAIN WE HAVE SEEN YOU GUYS IN KOREA, VIETNAM, NOW THE MIDDLE EAST!
OH BOY YOU GUYS SCREWED EVERYTHING UP NOW, JUST BECAUSE AN IDIOT OF A PRESIDENT STARTED TO WAR PRACTICALLY, EVERY TOM, DICK , HARRY , JANE, MARY AND HOLLY.
YOU STARTED THIS ECONOMIC SLUMP AND NOW YOU AMERICANS ARE BITCHING ABOUT FOOTBALL.
BITCH ABOUT YOUR OWN STUPID COUNTRY YOU IDIOTS
NFL IS DESTINED TO LAY DORMANT ON ITS FAT AMERICAN ASS JUST WHERE IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE:
IN THE SHITHOLE PLACE WHERE GEORGE THE RETARDED MORONIC ASSHOLIC BITCHCUNT W (WANKER) BUSH (BLOODY UNEDUCATED STUPID HOLE).
INSIDE A STUPID CUNT’S ASSHOLE.
MATE YOU DEFINATELY ARE PRODUCT OF THE RETARD DUMB IDIOTIC GEORGE BUSH CLAN!
YOU EVER HAD A ONE-ONE FIGHT WITH A FOOTBALLER MATE?
LIVE AND STAY IN THE BACKWATER MATE!
FOOTBALL IS UNIVERSAL!
america is the paradise for the retard and morons. Look at their last two presidents. One is a retard (Bush) and another is a cunt (Obama). (refer above).
americans have elected a retard and a cunt to lead them. Speaks volumes of their stupid idiotic brain.
americans seem to have an affinity to have the male appendage in their own (american assholes).
america is a lost piece of shit and like Rome, your empire is going to get screwed, Hannibal being replaced by the Chinese
Dude the only game you americans are good is getting screwed in the asshole.
TWO GOOD EXAMPLES: GEORGE W. BUSH GETTINGS SCREWED BY ALMOST EVERY ASSHOLE IN AMERICA. AND THE MIDLE EASY
BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA GETTING FUCKED BY ALL THE GODDAMN JEWS AND ARABS.
america is a HEAVEN FOR FAGGOTS AKA AMERICANS
Italy, a bunch of racist baby-men any way. fuck’em. good for Zidane
wow. said like a true american.
its sad… soccer is the best sport ever. can you please tell me when the whole world, the WHOLE world, holds their breath during a game of baseball?
right you cant.
but just wait until worldcup comes around and shit gets crazy..
but its okay cause you are an idiot and you are doing a splendid job at being one. keep it up! maybe you can get an AMerican meal from McDonalds.
American sports = winner and cool and respected real men.
Soccer = foreigner loser sport for foreigners/homosexuals/communists.
Real football has BIG FUCKING HITS FUCK YEAH BIG MEN 350LB OF AMERICAN PRIDE BIG SCORES BIG DRINKS BIG SUPERBOWL BIG COMMERCIALS BIG AWESOMENESS!
Soccer is the #1 sport in the world with the highest paid athletes. Chelsea FC’s payroll is twice that of any NFL team, oh and soccer players do not need steroids to excel. They do not need to wear pads. Oh, and they can also read and write.
real football don’t use hands, if not body had told you.
it would become a fact if you shoot all who don’t agree with you or running them over with your stupid trucks.
you call them pussies because deep inside you know you can’t beat them. so you stick to the game that you can win.
So exactly which corner of Fucktardslavia are you from? I visited there while studying abroad in college; we should be BFFs!
You’ve got to be taking the piss surely. You can’t be for real, can you?
I am red-blooded American and I love football (soccer). I am know I am of a very small minority in the US, but there are soccer fans in this country and they don’t all follow Arsenal, Man U, and the EPL. I’ve been a soci for FC Barcelona for years now…
All of these anti-foreigner, “America is superior” quotes are ridiculous and I find your ignorance embarrasing. Thanks for giving more evidence of the Ugly American stereotype the rest of the world holds.
It is possible for soccer to find its way into the American landscape of major sports, but it will always fall behind american football, basketball, and baseball.
As my high school football coach used to say “Soccer is a communist homosexual activity, not a sport”. And this is all that soccer can every hope to achieve, it will never a globally important sport like basketball, baseball and football. Soccer will always be considered globally a sport for losers who couldn’t get singed up to baseball and other real sports, and it will forever be in the shadow of the Super Bowl, World Series and NBA finals. The reality is that soccer is a dying sport and the world is being taken over with real American sports. The Super Bowl is now ten times more watched than that pansy lame boring “World Cup” soccer game.
“Soccer will always be considered globally a sport for losers who couldn’t get singed up to baseball and other real sports, and it will forever be in the shadow of the Super Bowl, World Series and NBA finals.”
715.1 million people around the world (the alleged “communists, homosexuals”) watched the last World Cup finals.
By contrast, the Superbowl this year had only 98 million viewers.
You are as ignorant as you are wrong.
hmm…
don’t care much what you think is happening regarding the global sports scene, the only thing i want to point out is…
of the sports you mentioned (superbowl, NBA finals, world series)…the global championships of these sports are…
world baseball classic
FIBA/basketball world championship
compared to say…for soccer…world cup…
in my estimation…
world cup >>>> world baseball classic, FIBA
so globally speaking…im gonna have to go with soccer over basketball or baseball
note: since the olympics have baseball, basketball, and soccer…i count it as a wash…[american football: not even in the olympics]
“Soccer will always be considered globally a sport for losers who couldn’t get singed up to baseball and other real sports, and it will forever be in the shadow of the Super Bowl, World Series and NBA finals.”
still lol!
even Basketball is may favorite sport and i don´t care about football (maybe u call it Soccer ´cause u r ignorant) at all, i must disagree …
that MLS u have is no real league, so u probably can´t understand how important football is to the rest of the world; In Southamerica, Europe and a lot of countries in Africa there a “die hard”-football fans .. even their team relegated to the 5th divison;
Baseball is imo no real sports .. just a false pretenses to drink beer in public … something the rest of the world don´t need 😉
Buckaroo says: ….is being taken over with real American sports. HUH? I wasnt aware that any REAL sports came out of america. oh, and american football is only a panzied-down version of rugby
Hang on; David Beckham can read???! 😛
Yeah “Soccer”, i.e. FOOTball, rules. The US sports are OK but the commentators are so annoying it’s not really bearable to watch.
Like most Americans in fact…
I apologize for the ignorance of all americans who hate football (soccer). It makes no sense when they say baseball is more exciting than football. Manchester United ftw.
I’m an American too.
First of all, soccer is “the most popular sport in the world” because nobody except us Americans can afford to play any other sport except soccer, yet alone watch any other sport on TV. All those Eurofags dream of being manly enough for REAL MANLY TOUGH MACHO football, not faggot foreigner mexicans running around in hot pants kicking a ball like fags.
Americans are REAL men, we watch REAL sports.
You euros are faggy little losers who watch fagball with pussies kicking a ball around, what losers.
Real all-American football is 100 times bigger and more watched than freaking soccer, only poor people watch soccer in foreign third world loser countries.
Sounds like United11 is offended (#101) and ready to move to canada! (#95) Embrace your whiteness!
MLS is right up there with the WNBA in terms of entertainment value.
That is such a high level of sarcasm. Your humorous intellect is so far and beyond that of others.
Buckeyes are even bigger faggots than Euro soccer fans. Wanna know why?
Because the culmination of your lives is attending Ohio State University. After that, it is back to your shitty hometowns of Akron or Dayton or some other lame ass city. Even Cleveland and Cincinnati are disgusting. The only cool thing to EVER come from Ohio is Lebron, but even he wants out of that pathetic piece of land you faggots call a state.
Have fun living in a place referred to as part of the “corn belt”.
This person does not speak for me or any other American.
The reason Americans don’t care about soccer is pretty much the same reason we care about American Football–exposure. It’s not like I can turn on the TV and watch a live Manchester United/Newcastle game. You take what you see. If Europeans were constantly exposed to the NFL, they’d probably like it, too. If Americans were exposed to elite soccer (Premier, La Liga, Primera), we’d probably care.
Donkey-
I would agree that if the entire capsulation of football was ohio state, it would suck just as much as your sport does. Overrated, narcissitic, egomaniacal players, in a shitty, hilly, humid terrain with terrible weather.
WOW!, Doesnt ohio look like england? With better food?
Gravy said:
“Buckaroo says: ….is being taken over with real American sports. HUH? I wasnt aware that any REAL sports came out of america. oh, and american football is only a panzied-down version of rugby”
He’s right! Rugby is so much awesomer than NFL (and I love NFL and College Football …hate the BCS though)…its like watching hockey, soccer, and us football all in one without the commercialism that has so watered down and ruined American Pro Sports.
Buckeye..you’re an ignoramus. And its a shame you have to use ‘Buckeye’ as your name because you don’t even have the IQ to match up to one. I’m an Ohio State fan btw, so the rest of you…please don’t go bashing it just because a guy with the intelligence of human waste is a ‘fan’ too.
No. He’s not for real. You should probably get your irony meter looked at.
real men? than why do these real men need protection pads and helmets? I’ll tell you why,cuz they’re pussies. little cunts. the british play the same thing,just without any protection,and no steroids. they can take on your ‘real men’ any day of the week. pussies…
it may be like that in the US,but the US is not the world and the rest of the world don’t give a shit what you pussies think real sports are.
lmao, how about um… RUGBY. Much manlier than American football!
Your comment sounds extremely ignorant and uneducated. Not only is your post full of run-on sentences but it is full of grammer errors as well. You should consider that before anyone can take what you have to say seriously. You make no valid points and have no argument. Maybe you should try watching a game of soccer, understanding the tactics, and the excitement of the game rather than focusing on the hypermasculine, violent nature of sport american football fosters. Perhaps if you educated yourself before writing such absurd things you could get somewhere in life, you ignorant fool.
I would love to see how manly you are during Soccer riots:
soccer suxs. they’re full of floppers!!!!
america hate bullshieets
NFL take over in every other country?? really? how’d that european football league pan out, just too exciting and too popular to keep it afloat? I’M an american and would rather play 90 minutes straight of real football then sit on my ass every 5 seconds between plays and commercial time outs and all that shit. yea american football is a tought sport, those guys are huge, un-athletically huge, covered in pads and protective gear. and baseball? don’t get me started, I played baseball for division 5 school in high school. i really enjoyed sitting in the outfield watching the only movement on the field come from the pitcher and the batter on his occassional swing. baseball’s the great american past time. World series my ass, whenever USA plays in the olympics or the up and coming world baseball cup don’t the japs win everytime.
PS. this american didn’t vote george w numnuts or for Obama
The reality is that nobody except Americans has the freedom of choice to choose other sports, all foreign countries have is soccer because they can’t afford a bat and a ball or plastic helmets, we American have superior sports because our culture is superior so it produces better sports. Soccer reflects the unmanly, lame and tedious nature of europeans/asians/africans/south americans. Its as simple as that, soccer sucks and is boring and the fact that Americans hate and non-Americans love it proves this without a doubt.
Soccer is a inferior sport, boring, lame, uncool and for girls, it will be gone in 20 years as the NFL takes over the world now that they are playing games overseas. Look at how the NFL is more popular than soccer in England after they played that game between the Chargers and Saints.
People who watch the Super Bowl = 100 Million World-Wide
People who watch the World Cup final Game = 1.1 Billion World Wide
Average NFL Player Salary = $770,000
Average Soccer Player Salary = $1,178,000
NFL Highest Paid Player = Ben Rothlisberger @ 102,000,000 Over 6 Years
Professional Soccer Highest Paid = David Beckham @ 250,000,000 Over 5 Years (Though he is a tool…so much for a career…)
Civil Wars stopped for an NFL Football Game = 0
Civil Wars stopped for Soccer =
1. Ivory Coast’s 1969 breakaway from the Republic of Biafra.
2. The Christmas Truce of 1914 in Ypres, Belgium.
3. Probably more, but I can’t think of them now.
Have you ever heard of Hooligans? They don’t only exist in Europe. In fact, it’s not uncommon in other countries for someone to be killed over a soccer game. In 1994 Andres Escobar was shot after scoring an Own Goal against the US during the world cup. How many football players have ever been killed because of a touch-back or maybe a fumble or even possibly a thrown interception? Funny, can’t think of anything? That’s because although American Football is a somewhat interesting sport, it’s not a lifestyle. Yeah you wear your jersey around and buy steelers Lamps, but seriously, when was the last time you saw someone beaten to death for missing a goal…that’s what I thought.
Does soccer have as many casual fans as MLB/baseball?
I notice MLB has alot of casual fans (other than stat geeks, which I question if they actually watch many of the games), probably because of the atmosphere/nature of the game.
1. It easily the most popular among women in the US.
2. Its easy to understand, and can be learned quickly.
3. The pace is slow, so you can converse while at the game more so than other sports.
4. Many times ppl only care if their team won or loss that day.
5. Has an “olympic” nature to it. Where ppl are rooting for their team, but have little knowledge of the players, but especially non-star players on other teams.
Soccer I would think, would lend itself to many of the same things.
The game doesn’t seem that interesting on the whole. Its low scoring, and doesn’t have clear indications of progress (down, distance, marked field position as in the NFL). Its very fluid, clear possession of the ball is not apparent in many cases. Some would argue this makes it resemble basketball, however I would say basketball is much clearer in this respect, with alternating possessions, and if the ball is turned over, its taken to the other end of the court.
I would think that since, you don’t have any/little breaks, timeouts, fouls, end of the play (football) AND since it isn’t as interesting its own right, you would naturally struggle to maintain focus.
“The game doesn’t seem that interesting on the whole. ”
Funny how it interests more people than any other sport on the planet. I hope you do realize that its subjective, and to most people the difficulty of scoring in soccer is exactly what makes it riveting and tense (indoor soccer is very high scoring and nowhere near to being the most watched spectator sport in the world, while outdoor soccer is low scoring and by far the most watched spectator sport on the world).
For some reason, American equate sports where its easy to score as being exciting and those where scoring is difficult as being boring. Which is why cricket is the most exciting sport ever, basketball is ten times more popular than American football here in the US and those 28-19 indoor soccer matchs are so much more exciting than a 2-1 outdoor soccer match right?
hmm…as an american who loves football so much that i waited till the end of the superbowl to check out my knee i messed up playing the morning of (had a severe MCL sprain with a torn medial meniscus)…i have to say in no way do i find soccer inferior to football or baseball or any of the like.
if you ever bothered to play soccer or watch some of the top teams in europe play (and you’re in luck as it is champions league stage right now…that you can catch on espn360 if you have it)…you’d see the level at which these athletes control a ball with their feet is unbelievable. their balance, their finesse, their accuracy…all with their feet!
and to think of it on a teamwork level, soccer is unlike any thing else. you’re never gonna see stuff in soccer (i guess i should say rarely) where one person calls an iso like kobe does pretty much every time down the court or something like larry fitzgerald simply run a go route and have kurt just heave one into triple coverage just to have larry seriously climb over everyone to grab it.
in soccer, its all about teamwork. no one person can dribble an entire length of the pitch and take on several defenders at the time all the way to the goal. its not meant to be played that way. and quite honestly…soccer played that way is boring (just look at the MLS).
good soccer is beautiful.
as for the garbage about our culture being superior to other cultures and therefore sports we play being better than sports anywhere else…
football is a derivative of rugby. baseball was played in england before it was played in the US. hockey isn’t even american.
the only true american sport to be created in the us is basketball and that sucker only needs a hoop and a ball…no helmets, no bats…not too dissimilar to soccer i would say.
do you find basketball tedious, lame, and for girls cause it doesn’t require equipment as well?
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one last note: american football more popular than soccer in england? that is the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. ppl will kill each other over soccer in that country. the NFL for them is just a sideshow for them.
flopping sucks. so does taking charges right? or is that somehow different?
Well, I realize that its fairly subjective. But, I tried to make some observations as to why many americans don’t care for the game, rather than just say “soccer blows/sucks, american football is better”.
“Funny how it interests more people than any other sport on the planet.” It would seem to me that soccer, has what you would call in economics a “first-mover advantage”. American football has never been in Europe or any other part of the world, with exception of minor clubs and NFL Europe. It has no infrastructure (youth leagues, high school, college).
As sports heavy as any country, it the US took close to 30 years before football overtook baseball as the most popular sport (from major intro around ~1950 to becoming leading sport ~1985). So, it takes time in most cases.
I know basketball has made significant strides in Europe within the last 15 years. Although, I don’t know if this is because the level of play is higher, or the increased level of lower level play, or general increases in sports consumption.
“For some reason, American equate sports where its easy to score as being exciting and those where scoring is difficult as being boring.” Although, I find that generally to be true, I think that has more to do with cause than effect.
What I mean is, it takes so much to score in soccer; it might take doing like 20 consecutive things right or better than your opponent. But let’s say you get 75 or 85% of the way through that progression, and screw up/ or your opponent makes a great play, then you lose all or most of what you gained. Meanwhile, if you do score, you can just drop extra defenders and just play defense, particularly if its later in the game.
In basketball, you have high scoring games, because its easier to score.
In football, you have relatively low scoring games but higher than soccer by my guess, but clear markers of progress by field position, down, and distance. (The average points per game per team in the NFL last year was 22, if you take touchdowns=1 field goals=.5, that would equate to 3 soccer points).
In my mind, it would be hard to focus on who is winning or performing better in soccer, because much of the game is at 0-0 or 1-1. Or focus in general because of what I said before, fluid play, lack of clear possession a lot, little breaks. Thus, it would seem to me to lend itself to casual fan environment, with many fans there more for social reasons with the game as a nice distraction.
I know almost nothing about cricket. I’ll look it up though.
Other general questions.
What would you say the star factor is in soccer? (game impact though, not hype/media) In the NBA, with very few exceptions, you must have a future hall of famer to win the title. In the NFL, the impact isn’t as great and its more positional based; having a great QB or Defensive Line makes up for a lot.
Again, the women thing. Do a lot go to games? After reading through before I post, I just realized you may not be from Europe. Oh well.
Dude, soccer is gay and sucks that all you need to go. Don’t listen to the eurofags, soccer is so fucking boring and lame, who wants to watch a bunch of sissies prancing around kicking “le ball” like a bunch of pussies?
Yeah, like Woody Hayes football was interesting.
Uh dude, get a clue. If you think soccer is boring it’s because you’re too stupid to understand the game!!!
BTW, those so-called sissies could kick your ass up one side and down another. Soccer players happen to be the best athletes on earth dumb ass. You have just declared yourself a complete ignoramus…..
“that all you need to go” HUH????
I rest my case, lol.
The fact is that American sports just like American culture is superior to foreign culture, its a fact, a cold hard objective fact. Baseball is ten times more exciting than soccer, in soccer nothing every happens, no stats whatsoever, 0-0 game and stupid foreigners think this isn’t boring. Get a life you lame eurofags and all the thirdworlders, soccer sucks, you don’t understand how uncool you look associating with soccer when its the most unpopular sport in existance and everyone on TV makes fun of it and riducles it for soccerfags.
Rea sports are: baseball, football, nascar and basketbll. Real manly AMERICAN sports, not fags running around kicking a ball like pussies.
Soccer is a loser fag unmanly lame shitty boring communist pussy european third world foreigner gayfest of a sport. Every american male hates soccer with a passion and the third world pussy commie mentality it represents.
American culture is maybe superior.
But no one who’s ever read more than 3 words of any book would tell that just by reading those stupid comments by some of these guys who relate soccer to communism, or lack of money (are the germans or the dutch people that poor?) or tell us that soccer isn’t by far the most popular game in England and in many many other countries around the world. Go travel for once, otherwise you’re just embarassing yourself.
I wonder if that proves that the superiority of american culture isn’t true or should we feel really sad for those who, despite being surounded by such great knowledge show how deep one’s ignorance can go and how hopeless one can be no matter his enviroment. It’s useless to hide your own personal inferiority behind other’s acomplishments you didn’t contribute at all to achieve or abstract concepts. Not everyone is as stupid as you.
By the way, american culture (Christianity, individualism and so on) came from overseas. Americans just keept what europeans sadly forgot. Sports are not at the core. Venezuelans love baseball, and what this has to do with third or first world cultures?
Dumb ideas like the no keeping score mentality or no children left behind have nothing to do with soccer’s essence (take a look at a kid’s soccer game in other countries) or any other sports. As far as I know, those ideas are 100% born in American universities.
Perhaps that’s one of the hidden reasons why america went bankrupt. Too much time spent on hating soccer instead of whether you have money enough to pay the mortgage before you get it. Watching sports instead of learning basic math. Trusting your bank just because of their brand. Buying stocks and losing 50% of your wealth. That’s what I would call “superior culture for a fact”.
you sound like a real cunt.if i saw you on the street i would use your head as my very own’lame pussy commie’football u prick.u give yanks the bad name they hav over here,ignorant stupid wankers.i bet u like baseball dont you ‘ken’ .football is the purest sport and maybe 1day ull see that.until then…fuck off kenneth
kenneth your a cunt.come to england.find me.well have a square one.football is not just a game.and it pisses all over baseball.what a shit one.
how is baseball manly.they hit balls with sticks while wearing full face helmets.i respect american football, but its just a pussyole yank version of rugby.u only dont like”soccer”because yanks are shit at”soccer”.nascar is sooooo boring they just go in circles,why not watch touring cars?they crash and thats wat u yanks like ennit.y r u so patriotic in the u s of a?u r all immigrants,the dregs and shite of everyone elses society,u hav no history,u hav never won a war.and dont u dare bring up ww2.ure country was run by a retard,he was the man whu us eurofags equated with america for a long time.home of the brave-why wear so much padding and carry a gun.ure not brave…just very afraid.cunt
Ken,
Come on out of the closet buddy. It’s okay man. We are understanding about homosexuality. You don’t have to be ashamed.
Americans hate soccer with a passion. We will always insult it no matter what. We will always question the masculinity of the millions who play it and the billions who watch it. We are superior because we are American, our sports are superior, foreign sports are inferior.
This is the mindset that no matter what you soccer fags will never change. America’s culture and sports dominate the world. Soccer is weak.
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Funny how americans can’t even own their own game– baseball. They barely made it to the semi-finals and all the american commentators were way too busy bi*chin and moaning about starting training early to talk about the asian teams’ when they were playing the final.
Plus why are all the our players so fat (looked like they could use the extra training)? None of them looked athletic. Why bank on homers alone? Smallball is also smartball and adds interest.
I think football (soccer) is so wildly popular around the world because in essence it is such a simple game for people to understand. There are two nets and the aim is for each team to get the ball in the net as often as possible. most of the other rules can be gleaned merely by watching 5 minutes of the sport.
The World Cup is indeed even bigger than the Olympic Games. It’s so popular around the world and so versatile that football in different countries is played differently, to different styles and amid a varied fan culture. The English have a traditionally powerful and quick game, the Brazilians show exquisite individual skill, the Dutch are renowned for the way they pass the ball to create space, the Italians for their tactical acumen and ability to stifle opposition defences.
During the international tournaments a fever grips countries, people bring flags to work and schools allow games to be shown even sometimes during lesson times. It brings people together at its best. Having said that, rivalries can be fierce at the worst of times.
wow i hate being an american, mostly
due to my association with so many unintelligent people
try using the english language properly before you attempt to insult someone poorly with it
It’s called football.
It’s been called football since the 19th centuray and it will always be called football no matter what people in the USA calls it. That rugby-like deviation you call “football” should always be refered to as “American Football” as it has nothing to to with real football (except that it has the same origin).
soccer players are not at all the ‘best athletes on earth’ dumbfuck. the best players in soccer are similar to track stars who require endurance. They have no physical dominance what-so-ever. that is why they are considered pussies. that is part of the reason why soccer is so incredibly terrible. take it from our stance where we have nba and nfl players who are so physically and athletically gifted in so many different aspects (watch scouting combines to see drill they do to show how they are deemed truly athletic) that they make the sport so enjoyable to watch because of how physically demanding and skillful these athletes make the game. when you can’t respect the athletes on the field, you are lacking in a sport. I cannot respect most soccer players, even when i try to give the sport a chance from an objective point of view. im not denying soccer players are athletic but they can never play sports here in America because they are simply TOO SMALL.
the culture of America is more dominant then the majority of smaller countries supporting soccer. America markets their sports better which is why the leagues we have here are so successful and known worldwide. similar reasons are behind why athletes come to play in American leagues.
this debate that always comes down to country pride and stubborn European and arrogant American opinions is completely pointless and often when people try sounding smart, they come off as biased dumbfucks. the image europeans have for Americans is truly sad, and so incredibly off-base. Especially when they love lecturing on schooling when they can’t understand basic argument structure and effective critical thinking. grammar is not everything, and I think limiting your words on how people write online will make you look less dumb. the truth is the smart people posting will lower their grammar standards because they understand this is the internet and there is absolutely no cause to try and impress someone over it with words in a casual conversation. the people that actually are trying to impress someone with using correct grammar are in fact stupid for not being able to take that extra step in realizing no one worth while cares how you type it. as long as you have a point.
here is my honest opinion on soccer that takes out country pride. soccer is an incredibly boring sport to watch. I get the passion for your country and tense goals due to low scoring games, but the entire culture of the game sickens me. these guys that flop and act like they just got shot in the leg when a guy barely tackles him makes me cringe. i can’t take that garbage. not when i watch nfl games. it’s like watching the nba then going to college basketball. weaker athletes.
so basically your point is to show how fanatic Europeans are for a sport. that’s your whole point. that could of been shortened to one sentence and I would of got it. your seriously proud people ‘kill’ themselves over a sport. that’s cool but not the basis of why you should enjoy it. if it is i’d for sure call you a scene kid. your like the kid who likes pop culture because everyone else likes it. you like soccer because everyone else is so passionate about it.
your stats here are pretty useless because you forgot to put them in context. god i seriously hate these comments. OF COURSE more people watch the world cup compared to the superbowl; it’s a sport supported by countries. you can also never compare country pride to team pride. the super bowl gets to a point where two CITIES could be the main audience. so that stat is just pointless, and if you can’t see that your fucking retarded. your nfl to soccer player salary averages are pretty funny as well. the fact that you grouped soccer players into one category is also interesting. you should of labeled a specific league, and then im sure when you look at the one you were thinking about the reasons their paid more is obvious. it’s the audience, again. nfl players are not paid much because of the progression of the sport. why not compare them to MLB contracts without a salary cap like to the nba has? 250 million plus? all day son. david beckham was offered that contract by an AMERICAN soccer team and AMERICAN sponsors it was also not all guaranteed. just another fallacy in your argument.
no one in America denies the popularity of soccer. the honest point is we could give a fuck how popular a sport we don’t care about is because it is so incredibly lame and played by physically weak athletes. the popularity doesnt matter. we just have more gifted atheletes playing more physically demanding sports. your tool beckham would never be able to play in the nba or the nfl because he is too small. baseball is an extremely popular sport around the world. the ratings for the world baseball classic cannot be taken seriously because there is really only 3 countries who truly care about the tournament. it’s simple, MLB is the pinnacle of the baseball world, NBA is the pinnacle of the basketball world, NFL is obviously the top of the ‘american’ football world. there are european and asian leagues for basketball, baseball, hockey, etc. but the point is these sports are marketed better in america, and athletes want to play here for the money and the competition. why these facts are never mentioned in this argument against America is ridiculous. America dominates the sporting world. you have soccer, and it is not respected by Americans. end of discussion.
can’t you seriously see how your comment demonstrates why most Americans have no respect for European soccer. you sound like a fucking pussy dude.
“Maybe you should try watching a game of soccer, understanding the tactics, and the excitement of the game rather than focusing on the hypermasculine, violent nature of sport american football fosters”
haha, take a hike bro. you encapsulate the term soccer and Europe perfectly in your comment. go have biscuit and tea, haha. WOW. ‘just so ABSURD.’ and yeah im sure his post on this message board is keeping him from getting somewhere in life. now youre the ‘ignorant fool.’ haha get lost you fucking nancy.
fucking AC KILLS me, hahahaha. your probably not that smart, you just think writing that paragraph demonstrates you are. complete joke.
the athletes playing in the nfl are not the same as a typical rugby player. so no, it is not a ‘panzied down’ version at all. im sure the athletes coming out of America can’t wait to go play in all the super sick rugby leagues in Europe because they’re more physically demanding. do you make any comments with sense to them or should i continue to expect this level of writing from you?
because japan, korea and cuba are the only countries who fucking CARE about the world baseball classic. it’s a made up tournament, its fucking stupid. the real point you should be making is ALL the best baseball athletes from every country play in MLB. why the fuck don’t you say that you sorry piece of biased shit. the Olympics? the US sends COLLEGE students to compete in the Olympics for baseball. it’s so funny how it is never mentioned in these arguments that America holds down the sporting world. one tournament every 4 years, the world cup, blows your skirt up. I GOT IT.
Jdig, your a fucking loser.
“Look at how the NFL is more popular than soccer in England after they played that game between the Chargers and Saints”
That’s the most ridiculous thing Ive ever heard. I’m an American living in London. Nobody here knows the rules of american football. They went to that game because they thought it would be a good experience. More popular?? Not in the slightest. Soccer here is bigger than basketball, football, and baseball combined.
When the big-name football clubs like Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, ManU, etc play in the US the tickets sell out within minutes. People enjoy watching something new, especially at the highest level. MLS is lame so nobody cares.
I understand that a lot of americans consider football (soccer) to be feminine.
In Sweden, basketball was considered feminine and if young men wanted to play it their parents would probably think that their kids were gay.
That was how it was until the 80’s when immigrants and hiphop made basketball masculine.
Think about it.
Americans hate soccer with a passion. We will always insult it no matter what. We will always question the masculinity of the millions who play it and the billions who watch it. We are superior because we are American, our sports are superior, foreign sports are inferior.
This is the mindset that no matter what you soccer fags will never change. America’s culture and sports dominate the world. Soccer is weak. Soccer sucks and foreigners are weaklings who can’t play real sports. We rule, non-americans suck and are pansies.
Well I’m glad you explained that.
As a matter of fact I know a lot of average american males who would agree on that. Or at least a lot more who would agree than disagree.
Maybe that explains your economy? 😀
Arsenal till i die,
i’m Arsenal till i die
i know i am,
i’m sure i am,
i’m Arsenal till i die.
you sir, are the “wrong kind of white person” he refers to one this site.
@average american male
I don’t think people recognize (or appreciate) sarcasm.
ARSENAL FC!!!
American culture and sport dominate the world? Really? Where? There is a minimal influence in Europe, actually it’s laughed at. Australia has it’s own English derivative. Asia CERTAINLY is independent of American culture. And as for Africa, well!
Indeed, what is American culture? In my experience it’s a massively diverse country, with no one constant culture. It’s much like talking about the British accent – ie there isn’t one. I suppose McDonald’s and Starbucks would suffice to backup your mis-lead ramblings…
As for the ‘sport’ quip, that’s a larf. Baseball is played in the USA and has some following in East Asia and Cuba. Basketball, similar and a smattering of interest in eastern Europe. American ‘Football’ is popular in America. The most common played sport by your fellow countrymen is Golf, surely? American sports dominate in America.
‘Soccer’ is the number one global sport, a planet full of wussies and pansies all bumming on the soccer pitch. Shit a brick. Fool.
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haha I guess to change american’s minds about the feminism qualities of soccer, we will need to import some highly masculine Sweedish music. Good luck with that.
you kno wat im american but u need to go some where YOU RACIST MOTHER-FUCKER.
soccer was called football first
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No REAL AMERICAN would ever like soccer, all of america is united in visciously hating soccer. Liberals who hate AMERICA tell us that we should accept soccer, but every AMERICAN knows that soccer is a gay, shitty, loser, boring, crap, fake, europussy sport that we must all unite in hating every time it is mentioned.
If you hear someone talk about soccer, we will ridicule them and call them fags for thinking about soccer. Proud american men HATE soccer with a passion.
Formula One is kind of life soccer in the sense that Americans just won’t embrace it. It seems they prefer to see stock cars going around in circles than to see highly tuned, very expensive works of arts passing each other around hairpin turns at over 190 mph.
Although when formula one comes to indianapolis (why an oval, idk) it always sells out.
Football and formula one are enjoyed over the world, except in the States.
Nascar is a joke. Going around in ovals, do they even have tracks with turns other than to the left?
Formula one and rally dominate nascar.By the way, Nascar was started by bootleggers, so when you have a sport based on evading cops, there isn’t many cool things to say about that.
Football has many influences, from the Aztecs to the British.
Aztecs- pass a small ball through a hoop using your hips (seriously, look it up)
And from the british, when they would gather many people at once and let lose a ball and everyone would try to kick it.
As far as sports with high scores, since most Americans have ADHD, or ADD, they need something colorful and shiny to keep them entertained. Although I will give basketball it’s fair placement in the world, mainly because of the speed of the sport.
Football will never be surpassed in speed, technique and physical requirement. Baseball, basketball and american football ALL have fat , very fat players.
Football has a few, but they are mostly older guys (Ronaldo, come on, he got chunky in WC2006)
Okay Mr. American Ignorance, keep in mind that when you speak of “AMERICA” you may want to keep in mind that “America” includes the entirety of North and South America, including every other country that hails “soccer”, or actually futbol, as one of few true sports that are played in the States. If you want to talk about shitty, loser GAMES, we can touch on golf and baseball and any other “sports” that you all have in the States. Your football requires brute strength for 14 seconds, then you rest for 5 minutes, and then try again. Baseball might have one exciting thing happen once an inning. Talk about boring! True futbol requires strength, athleticism and endurance, with no breaks for the players and no breaks in the action. Just because there isn’t another score every few minutes doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to watch.
So if you want to continue to “proud american” and very ignorant ways, please do so by qualifying your statements with the fact that you are from the States and don’t include the rest of America in your statement. The rest of America doesn’t really want that kind of a reputation. Meanwhile, we will continue to enjoy a true sport, while still trying to respect the sports that your country has invented.
This post is too funny. I am not white and I am not american. but I have noticed that soccer is mostly played by middle class or upperclass in america. This is definitely not the case in the caribbean and latin america for sure. Soccer is actually enjoyed by the masses…sometimes played by “street urchins” as my mom would say…lol. Nevertheless it is enjoyed by all.
@ Another real American –
Really, its real name is futbol?? How Spanishcentric of you. Why is your mexican name the proper one? When not british “football” or german “fußball”?
Soccer sucks.
Listen, soccer is sawker and SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS.
SOccer is to be met with hate and insults, because it represents the inferior culture of non-american vermin.
i hate soccer
and football
ftw
“Baseball is played in the USA and has some following in East Asia and Cuba”
Talk about a “larf”-obviously you were so busy watching soccer that you didn’t see the WBC-the freaking NETHERLANDS had a baseball team, for crying out loud, as did AUSTRALIA, ITALY, and SOUTH AFRICA, as well as CANADA, MEXICO, and PANAMA.
As for American football, I guess if you weren’t exposed to it, then you wouldn’t enjoy it-after all, it has the most rules of any sport. They don’t rest for “5 minutes”, though, there is a 40 second play clock to get off the next play. As much as you don’t like it, American football is expanding, with sold out games in London, Mexico City, and I think in China soon.
Basketball: Obviously you didn’t watch the Olympics, there were teams from China, Argentina, Angola, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Russia, Croatia, Iran, Spain, and Australia. There are big Euro basketball leagues that are actually attracting NBA players because of the money they can pay. Why don’t you crawl out from under your soccer rock once in a while?
Don’t get me wrong, soccer is fine and all, but there is just too much running around and doing nothing for my taste-I’d rather watch hockey, where at least there is spectacular plays being made constantly, whereas in soccer, its like run run run, kick ball back and forth nowhere near the goal and out of bounds for like 10 minutes, and then maybe a shot on goal that misses, and then 10 minutes more of the same. Yawn.
fuck you
asshole
Get The Name Right Mate!
It’s FOOTBALL
WELL SAID MATE!
YEAH TOTALLY AGREED! SOCCER IS FOR DUMB ASSESS
FOOTBALL IS FOR HUMANS!
GOOD! IF THAT IS WHAT YOU THINK. BUT GET THIS INTO YOUR HEAD! SOCCER IS PLAYED BY AMERICANS.
FOOTBAL IS PLAYED BY THE REST OF THE WORLD.
IM QUITE SURPRISED, AMERICA THE LAND OF THE HOMELESS AND THE BUMS TAKING A SHOT AT THE REST OF THE WORLD!
bY THE WAY “DUDE” THE NAME OF THE GAME IS FOOTBALL.
IM QUITE SURPRISED, AMERICA THE LAND OF THE HOMELESS AND THE BUMS TAKING A SHOT AT THE REST OF THE WORLD!
bY THE WAY “DUDE” THE NAME OF THE GAME IS FOOTBALL.
AMERICA THE LAND OF THE HOMELESS AND THE BUMS TAKING A SHOT AT THE REST OF THE WORLD!
bY THE WAY “DUDE” THE NAME OF THE GAME IS FOOTBALL.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SOCCER IS PLAYED BY AMERICANS FAGS
THE REST OF THE WORLD PLAYS FOOTBALL MATE!
TRUELY AGREED, THE ONLY TRUE CULTURE COMES FROM THE NATIVES OF AMERICA.
REST OF IT BORROWED FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD THAT PLAYS FOOTBALL, NOT SOCCER.
MATE SOCCER IS NOT COMMUNIST! SOCCER IS AMERICAN.
IN CHINA AND CUBA, THEY PLAY FOOTBALL.
GOOD ONE MATE!
DUDE YOU REALLY MUST COME OUT OF THAT LITTLE CUP OF YESTERDAY’S MILK.
HAVE YOU EVER PLAYED ANY SPORTS? IF YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN ANY SPORTS YOU WOULDNT BE SAYING ALL THAT YOU HAVE SAID.
AND BY THE WAY IN ANY SPORTS, THE SCORES MATTER, BUT WITHOUT THE PASSION FOR THE GAME YOU ARE A GONER!
THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS PASSION FOR FOOTBALL. IT’S OK IF YOU MINORITY AMERICANS CAN’T UNDERSTAND IT.
WE, THE MAJORITY WILL FORGIVE YOU. AFTER ALL THATS WHAT ADULTS DO WHEN CHILDREN MISBEHAVE.
ABOUT PUNISHMENT, I THINK THAT RETARD BUSH HAS DONE ENOUGH FOR THE USA OF A.
THAT’S DEMOCRACY IS, RIGHT?
DUDE, SOCCER IS FOR AMERICA!
FOOTBALL IS WHAT THE REST OF THE WORLD ENJOYS
AMERICANS CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND FOOTBALL.
WE WILL LEAVE IT AS THAT,
YOU IMPROVISED RUGBY, YOU WEAR PADS AND HELMETS AND YOU ARE COMMENTING ON FOOTBALL.
LISTEN DUDE! YOU GOT NO RIGHTS TO TALK ABOUT FOOTBALL.
THE MOST SENSIBLE APPROACH, BUT FOOTBAL IS DIVINE!
THE MOST SIMPLE GAME DUDE:
YOU KICK THE BALL INTO THE NET 1 GOAL
THE MORE TIMES YOU THAT THAN YOUR OPPONENT YOU WIN
IF IT BORES YOU…. HOW COME BILLIONS MORE ARE INTERESTED IN FOOTBALL?
THE MOST SENSIBLE APPROACH, BUT FOOTBAL IS DIVINE!
THE MOST SIMPLE GAME DUDE:
YOU KICK THE BALL INTO THE NET 1 GOAL
THE MORE TIMES YOU DO THAT THAN YOUR OPPONENT YOU WIN.
IF IT BORES YOU…. HOW COME BILLIONS MORE ARE INTERESTED IN FOOTBALL?
DUDE YOU ARE PROBALY NOT BLIND OR LAME. MAYBE YOU ARE DEAF. YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT FOOTBALL. YOU HAVENT PLAYED THE GAME,
DO YOU THINK YOU CAN GIVE COMMENTS?
I GUESS THAT’S WHAT THE RETARDED EDUCATION SYSTEM YOU HAVE IN AMERICA.
IT BRINGS OUT MORONS LIKE THE BUSH FAMILY, AND IT PRODUCES HUMANS LIKE YOU TOO.
BY THE WAY TOUR COMMENT PROVES AMERICA IS GOING DOWN WITH THE SWINES.
MATE, I DONT KNOW IF YOU ARE READING THIS. CANT BE TRUER…
SORRY ABOUT MY COMMENTS ON AMERICA. I WAS ANGRY.
FOOTBAL IS BEAUTIFUL
JOGO BONITO
DUDE WHEN YOUR COUNTRY CAN BE GOVERNED BY TWO RETARDS FOR 16 YEARS. NOT INCLUDING THE EARLIER BUFFOONS,
THE REST OF IS MORE THAN YOU AMERICA!
THINK OF THIS. THERE ARE MANY COUNTRIES THAT ARE SELF SUFFICIENT. WITHOUT THE REST OF THE WORLD YOU ARE NOTHING.
BY THE WAY, THAT OIL IN ALASKA IS NOT FOREVER!
WITH A HELMET ON YOUR HEAD? WHAT YOU DOING ON THE FIELD? WHAT ARE THERE GONNA BE BOMBS AND HAND GRENADES ALL OVER THE PLACE?
SOCCER IS FOR AMERICANS
FOOTBALL IS FOR US REAL MEN (REST OF THE WORLD): NOT TIN-CANS
HAHAHA LISTEN TIN-CAN (AMERICAN)
LIKE A CAN OF SHIT DONT YOU AMERICANS.
LIVING IN THAT TEA CUP THAT YOU CALL AMERICA.
GET OUT OF YOUR CUP AND STOP DRINKING THAT TIN-SHIT.
THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS ALREADY GONE BEYOND WHAT YOU CAN IMAGINE WHILE YOU ARE REEKING IN YOUR OWN SHIT IN THAT STUPID TEA CUP OF YOURS.
BUCKAROO, YOU EVER SEEN A KANGAROO PUNCH?
DUDE, THE WORLD CUP WAS WATCHED LIVE BY ONE THIRD OF THIS PLANET’S POPULATION. I DONT KNOW WHAT THE POPULATION OF AMERICA IS TODAY, BUT I CAN SAFELY BET THAT ITS NOT MORE THAN 500 MILLION. THE EARTH HAS 6 BILLION PEOPLE. THINK ABOUT WAHT YOU WROTE DUDETTE. CAUSE YOU ARE DEFINATELY A DUMB AMERICAN BLONDE. WANNA KNOW WHY? SOCCER IS ONLY PLAYED IN AMERICA. THE REST OF THE WORLD CALLS IT FOOTBALL. EVEN IN CHINA AND CUBA IT IS CALLED FOOTBALL.
BY THE WAY PROVES AGAIN WHY YOU ARE A DUMB BLONDE
THE MODERN FOOTBALL WAS INVENTED IN ENGLAND! ENGLAND! ENGLAND! ENGLAND! ENGLAND! ENGLAND!
AS A DUMB BLONDE YOU WOULDNT UNDERSTAND A WORD, BUT I FORGIVE YOU. BUT FOOTBALL WILL NOT.
GOOD ONE MATEY!
MATE! THE PEOPLE WHO PLAY SOCCER CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN AMERICA.
THE REST OF OF THE WORLD CALLS THE GAME FOOTBALL.
JUST LIKE THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, THERE IS ONLY ONE GAME THAT CAN BE CALLLED FOOTBALL AND IT DOESN’T ORIGINATE FROM AMERICA.
SOCCER IS FROM AMERICA AND PLAYED BY AMERICANS AND BY YOUR OWN DEFINITION:
Soccer = foreigner loser sport for foreigners/homosexuals/communists.
AMERICANS ARE: foreigners/homosexuals/communists
THATS THE MOST CRUEL THING MATEY, ALL OF YOU AMERICANS ARE FOREIGNERS IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY.
I ALWAYS KNEW THAT RETARD BUSH IS HOMO, NOW YOU HAVE PROVEN THAT BLACK IDIOT OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST
101. White people love being offended.
Yo. Soccer, football … – it is played by femals! Anything else to say?- Z.
lol seriously though this is probably why the Sounders team is so popular up here in the Pacific Northwest.
More and more this list is becoming “things liberal wealthy white people in the Northwest like”
Best bit about this whole article is that the woman in the pic is holding a Barca scarf and wearing a Spain national team jersey..
FAIL!
Whoops link didn’t work.
Anyhoo, FAIL!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independentism#Modern_Independentism
My only grudge as an American is how one can’t easily see the European teams unless you’re willing to spend the day in a pub that paid for the satellite.
I’ve seen Chicago Fire games, and I give them support, but I’ve watched the European teams play and believe me, they’re beyond the MLS by leaps and bounds. What annoys me is how you can’t see the games on a basic cable package, nor even catch any of the good matches online off a place like ESPN360.com. I could shell out $20+ a month to see them online, but I have enough bills right now that I can’t spend that for this.
I think if the “organizations” out there want Americans to get into soccer the way they worship football, basketball, and baseball…then they need to OPEN UP ACCESSIBILITY.
My girlfriend’s mother lives in Slovakia. On her basic cable package she has a channel that shows games all the time. Barclays Premeir League games even!
Yeah many buy the stuff as a trend thing, but there are loads of actual fans in the US struggling to catch games simply because no one will show them.
Maybe shes…Spanish
don’t you know the correct name is football…”soccer” should be put in quotations…sawker…that’s how americans pronounce it….Football…English…Football.
You are clearly a real American man. No, really! I just feel sorry for any real American children or any real American wife you might have. Twit…… As an Australian lover of football I still found the article very, very funny – but you my real American friend are just a piece of work.
Actually, the MLS is growing in statue as it reflects a changing American citizenry and more importantly – the standard is improving all the time. By global standards most informed football fans would rate the MLS competition in the middle rank of leagues and some individual players as ‘world class’. I watch the MLS ‘match of the week’ every Saturday morning here in Aus – I wouldn’t miss it for anything.
I would love to see this guy spend 5 minutes with some English and Australian defenders I know – we will see who the “pussy” is….
I am offended by everything you are, do and stand for – except your love for football. That I completely understand and welcome. See – we do have something we can agree on….. the World Game.
>>Maybe shes…Spanish
DJ Douche’s point is that Catalan’s (Barcelona is in Catalunya) don’t cherish their ‘Spanishness’
Americans hate soccer with a passion. We will always insult it no matter what. We will always question the masculinity of the millions who play it and the billions who watch it, nothing will change that. We are superior because we are American, our sports are superior, foreign sports are inferior.
This is the mindset that no matter what you soccer fags will never change. America’s culture and sports dominate the world. Soccer is inferior, for weak people of lesser physical and mental stature to Americans. Soccer sucks.
Well Joe, this is a exactly the comment that I would expect from a typical self-interested, never been out of his own country, septic tank. Lucky you’re a pumber for when you need to unblock all the sh#t that comes out of your mouth!
What is so masculine about Gridiron – they have to wrap themselves up in all that padding, the line blockers/forwards run/ step maybe a maximum of 5 yards per play then get a break for a few minutes before the next play. Take the time to watch a “real” masculine game of Aussie Rules – they take hits from all sides that are as hard as any I’ve ever seen in the NFL, without padding and apart from the occassional stoppage they pretty much are on the run non-stop for four 30 minute quarters.
The only thing that people like you are superior at is mouthing off. Get a life and broaden your horizons!
TruBlu, I think he was being ironic.
As an Australian who has played both Aussie Rules and Gridiron, whilst not wanting to compare the the overall masculinity quotient of the two sports, I can tell you that hits in Gridiron are actually pretty hard, precisely because of the padding and helmets.
Certainly, if Aussie Rules tackles were as hard as anything you had seen in the NFL, then most Aussie Rules plays would be in wheel chairs or dead.
I love my AFL, and it is a hard, very physical game, but me think you are suffering from a bit or paranoimia.
Funny. I went to Europe for 6 months and came back with that exact quote that I wanted to “get more into it”. It is important for cred though to have a team that isn’t supported by lots of other white people. Go Fulham?!
Have you been you England??
YOU SUCK
Granted, we do actually like football, but I think that us Euro types do it with your sports that we don’t fully understand. Ice hockey seems a pretty good example. Most guys I know can name a NHL team they like (mostly a Canadian one, because then it serves the dual purpose of showing a distaste for America, which is also in vogue now) but when pressed will not know any more. It allows us to do the scarf thing, but with funny shaped flags on the wall, showing how cool and international we are.
dear Adam We, yes foool we do enjoy the beautiful game, you are so wrong it hurts my colon. Secondly, how often do folk discuss great moments in soccer history since it is a relitive discussion a great moment for one individual fan is torment and agony for another, you smell
I have love for my Gunners
– Zorm Laechar
Fuck the arsenal man u is the top side in all the world. Glory man united.
P.S. Im a black kid in America.
The reason those games are not shown on basic cable is because other than you, NO ONE WATCHES THEM OR CARES TOO. If no one watches then the advertisers wont pay for commercials, if no one wants to advertise durring a game, then the network loses money. The networks are there to make money, so why would they put something on that no one wants to watch and they are going to lose money on?
Also, about soccer being less masculine than real football or any other sport Ive seen….Have you ever seen soccer players or their fans fight? They run up throw a soccer kick, or an occasional punch and immediately run away. I’d be embarassed. Look at our hockey, or even baseball, they fight until someone pulls them off or the whole bench clears. Not one punch and run away like a little girl!!!
Kind of like France or Canada in general
Gunners!
and yes, i have seen people yap about loving “soccer” and not having a favourite team or playing it last when they were in grade 3….LOL
Nigga, you must get laid out a lot, huh? Man, stop acting white and pick up a basketball, sling some glass, cop some shit, pop a cap and play some football. Man, stop this white man act. Keep it real, my nigga.
Omg, best comeback ever!! NOT!
Whoa, that is SOOO atypical. An Aussie who thinks he’s better than Americans. No wai! I guess I’m the typical American. I love my guns, my dog, love football on Saturdays and Sundays. Tailgate at college football games. However I grew up in South America watched and played soccer till the age of 16. Then I discovered street basketball. That was a very physical game, lost my lateral incisor during a pick up game. And then I discovered football. Best game ever. American football is more physical than any sport including rugby.
So before you generalize, maybe you should ask yourself why your sport is not popular here. In fact AFL is exactly like football but inferior in the sense that there’s a smaller fafn base and the hits are pussy. And yeah, you guys have more stamina, maybe. But no one wants to see some guy dribbling a footballl and then kicking it for no goddamned reason. There’s no real tactics or stratey involved in AFL. So in conclusion, American Football better than all of Australia and AFL is for pussies.
No, dude. The land of the homeless and bums would be Australia or the UK. We are the land of the free and home of the braves. Free because we fought for our independence unlike Aussie that is still England’s piss pot and brave ’cause we ain’t scared to blow you Aussies away with our glocks, Magnums and .45 Colts, and unlike Aussies, we weren’t pussy to surrender our guns.
There’s good America and shitty America. Don’t tell me that it’s not true. I’ve lived in Soouth America for 16 years and there’s no unity in the “other America”. The USA aka “the real America” is way better and stands united, hence the name. So don’t give me your crap that America is North and South America you fucking beaner. Go mow my lawn or something.
Soccer is the right name. Brits started calling it soccer first, short for asSOCiation football. People started calling it ASSOC football and later soccer. When the sport arrived here in the US, Brits were calling it soccer and we were calling rugby football just plain football. When the forward pass was introduced to our version of rugby the name football stuck and so did soccer for fag-football. So you see, the rest of the world is actually calling it by its wrong name and ironically the only country that refers to it by the correct name hates the sport with a passion and the rest of the world is too ignorant to know that they are calling it by the wrong name.
Have you heard of Britney Spears? Brad Pitt? Tom Cruise? Or how about John Wayne, Bruce Lee, Robert DeNiro, Elvis Presley or heck Arnold Schwarzenegger? If you have then my friend you are in the grasp of American culture. Ever used a CD or iPod? American culture, ingenuity and product. Ever driven a mass produced car? Give thanks to Mr. Ford. Flown on an airplane? Thank the Wright Bros. Does Europe speak German? Guess what, we saved Europe’s ass. Twice! So whether you want to admit or not, there is an American Hegemony. Don’t believe me? Why is the UK or Aussie in Iraq?
And there are regional differences in American culture, but there are certain elements that makes all of us American. The love of freedom, the hate for communism and socialism, a hamburger on the 4th of July, a beef frank or hot dog at the baseball game, tailgating before football games and apple pie and we all stand united against a common threat.
As for “our sports”. Baseball is the most popular game in all Spanish speaking islands in the western hemisphere. Baseball is also the most popular sport in Japan.
Basketball has become more popular than soccer in certain East European countries and has become the most popular sport in China. It has overtaken soccer as the most popular sport in certain south american countries. Kobe is the most recognized person in Asia.
The most popular sport in China is basketball and the most popular sport in Cuba is baseball. Do your research before assuming that soccer is truly the most popular game in every country. The title of most popular sport is tenuous at best.
And you see that button next to the letter “A” key? That’s the key you press to look like a complete tool and douchebag. Press again to undo said effects.
Dude, you forgot hockey. Hockey may not truly be American since it’s only popular in the north but then again NASCAR is only popular in the south east.
But I agree soccer is for pussies who flunked out of acting school.
Big talk for a limey. Never won a war? Idk I’m pretty sure we bailed out Europe in both WW1 and 2. We may not have as much history as the “old world”, but we sure are outperforming the rest of the world in every way. So how does it feel to get owned and shit on by “the dregs of the world”. Why you guys are the pussies that didn’t have the balls to cross that pond to pioneer the new frontier. We won the west with a gun on our waist and a pick axe in our hand tilled the land with our oxen. What did all the pussies do in Europe? Stayed behind and got supressed by ye Olde King that now proclaim to love. Pussy ass shit, son. We carry guns because we don’t want a tyranical government to encroach on our civil liberties, we carry guns because only real men know how to fire a gun. Eurofags see gun, they run. Yeah, that’s soooo manly. Land of the Free and home of the Brave. We won the west, fought off you limeys and then bailed you out twice. And Bush was a controversial president and I think he got unfair smack, but like he said, History will be the judge of his presidency.
And FYI we ain’t afraid of Eurofags. Come Stateside and we’ll show you how scared we are of you.
Hmmm….and the FA Cup Final pulling in a bigger viewing TV audience than…ermmm…oh, yeah, the SuperBowl (whatever that is…) does seem to confirm a) which game ‘owns’ the word ‘FOOTBALL’ (plus FOOTBALL is a game played with feet, not shoved up a girly shirt and hidden in plastic armour so some oafish thug can try to jump on your head for not letting him play with it) and b) just how universally loved the ‘beautiful game’ is..
…so there…
…then those folks who actually went to Rugby School get to call their game ‘football’…as opposed to Rugby Football…
Why did I bother with that…? Where is Eddie Waring when you need him…?
Bollocks
lol white people love scarves.
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Man you must be one stupid ass american. you don’t even deserve the capital a in american. you are one of those ignorant fucks. That’s why the rest of the world hates Americans. Because of people like you. and btw it’s called Football not soccer as you yankees call it. Football is a sport wich brings allot of violence outside the field. Something you pussy americans don’t dare. We fight against eachother with blades and bats and also agains the police. Plus we have rugby wich is way harder then your pussy ass American Football where the people wear pads instead of going at eachtother wearing nothing but your own skin. so fuck off
americans might actually like soccer if the mls wasn’t so bad
This website is retarded only white people like soccer… Stupid black people and your hate towards whites wtf is wrong with you?
its funny how u say “stupid black ppl and their hatred for white ppl” when u contradict your own hate by saying “stupid black ppl”
yeah i would say this one is very ignorant..for the game of “foot ball” is spread all of the world…but you sir are an extremely ignorant person, for one, taking this too seriously..and too putting futher hate by your statement..
P.S. i am of Olmec African descent(African american)..and have no care in “hating white ppl” for race is an illusion..but ignorant racial stereotypes are hilarious for you can only laugh at ignorance..
I just saw Stephen Colbert talk about the pros and cons of soccer. “Fun Scarves!” Oh, and rioting.
this is obviously an american site, because only an american would call it soccer, the rest of the world calls it by its real name of football.
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on making others believe they are into soccer.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
You forget about Canadians! We know it’s called football, but call it soccer anyway because all our friends get confused about which football we’re referring to, the real one or the one with the rugby shaped ball that you get to pick up and throw.
ps the author of this site is Canadian and, contrary to what What thinks below, is white. “What” is obviously the wrong kind of white person or he would understand better, probably never made it to graduate school.
Didn’t I see you at the Ryder Cup last year shouting “get in da hole!”?
GOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLL! They love that guy too.
bwahahahhaa ‘you sir are an extremely ignorant person’ african descent yeah right you sound pretty damn white to me
Nice summary! Look, it is healthy to have some ability for self-criticism, but it is kind of sad that so many white Americans are so anti-american, against their own culture and people, as evidenced by many of the comments here. If we want to call it soccer then we can call it soccer. So what? In our country we have a right to call it what we want. Our we going to get angry if the Chinese refer to one of our sports with a different name in a Chinese language – no, of course no, who cares? This way it isn’t confused with American Football, which is more popular here in the states.
Americans hate soccer with a passion. We will always insult it no matter what. We will always question the masculinity of the millions who play it and the billions who watch it, nothing will change that. We are superior because we are American, our sports are superior, foreign sports are inferior.
This is the mindset that no matter what you soccer fags will never change. America’s culture and sports dominate the world. Soccer is inferior, for weak people of lesser physical and mental stature to Americans. Soccer sucks. SUCKS BALLS SOCCER>
LOL cause we’re doing so well against the world in our so-called American sports.
I assume by your name you are being ironic. If you’re not, you should know that the popular (with rednecks) anti-Soccer sentiment in the United States is the sentiment that causes the White people they’re talking about — middle to upper middle class White liberals and some more cultured conservatives — to want to appear to like soccer.
It shows them to either be a) proudly not uneducated ignorant red-necks or b) traveled and sophisticated and thusly not ignorant rednecks.
I am a white American and I have always loved soccer as my favorite team sport. I played as a youth mostly as a forward(right field) and I have some great memories playing teams from other cities. I don’t have a favorite professional team I follow I just love watching games and studying the teamwork the players put forth.
I really fucking do not understand this blog. Some of the most retarded bullshit I have ever read on the internet is on this website.
Can someone please explain to me what the point of this blog is besides attempting to stereotype a skin color?
Relax man, its comedy.
Ha Dude, I’m white too. I also like soccer. But you don’t have to pick on this site and call it racist or anything. It’s a joke site. And in my opinion, a very funny one because of how accurate on some of these subjects. And as this site may not apply much to you, why not just shake it off and move on. It’s not meant to insult you (well actually yes it is) you took this way too personally.
what if the article was called “white people like pasta,” would you go on and say, THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT, I FUCKING HATE PASTA. IM FUCKING OFFENDED FUCK WHITE POWER IS AWESOME.
chill~~~
Are you fucking stupid? This is satire–S A T I R E, look it up. You are clearly the wrong kind of white person.
Again, the wrong kind of white person.
I hate that. And you’re still uncool if you expose them. ..lame.
You really want to be seen as a soccer (aaargh ! it’s FOOTBALL ! ) fan ? Get a PARIS SAINT GERMAIN (aka PSG) scarf ! This is the team from Paris : they have a very poor level, but hey, it’s Paris ! And the have the same colors that the american flag (well, that’s not cool…).
http://www.boutiquepsg.fr/gamme/supporter/echarpes-casquettes/fiche-produit/echarpe-tissee-supporter/P4494
When asked which club they support, they’re prone to rattle off famous clubs. “Oh Manchester United. Real Madrid. You know.” They will never name a French or Italian club team.
this is hilarious and absolutely true. I am not white, love football(soccer), and basically grew up in an upper middle class mostly white community. I never fail to find white people who claim they loove soccer, but as soon as i want to get into a conversation about current soccer events and teams they have no freaking idea what I’m talking about…… they just studied in Spain or Italy for a semester in college or have taken vacation with their parents to some South American or other European country. Also while in these foreign countries, just happened to stumble(buy) tickets to a derby, WC qualifier, league or Champions League match that I would have sold my left kidney for.
this shoudlnt be “stuff white people like” this should be “stuff americans like,” i hate to brake it to all the europeans out there, but most of you are technically white too lol
basically this site is saying that only americans are considered “white”
Soccer in America…it’s not just for “foreigners” anymore. The USA wants to join in the world sports club, cheering on our national team, getting wiped by Mexico, Brazil, China, Iran, England, Korea, Turkey, Russia, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Croatia, Poland, Scotland, Wales and Portugal. The World cup playoff round qualification is no deal in the USA, but the whole Americas it is a big deal (i.e. Argentines, Colombians, Peruvians, Central Americans or Uruguayans). Thanks to recent waves of immigration into the country, you can spot soccer team wear, items and fans waving their home countries’ flags, even singing the team fan chants, and things like “Egypt! Vietnam! Salvador! or Austria!”. +
…and if the USA national team never lost so much, we’re more of a baseball/basketball/NFL football country, and since when white people (Americans in particular) loved to watch soccer games? Having a parent or grandparent (or in most cases, ancestors) from let’s say France in this case, don’t make me 100% French, and good for Zindan Zedane (or what’s his name) for being thrown out of the world cup 2006 finale for headbutting an Italian player, for a reason I understand: You don’t want them calling your mother or sister “whores” or you’re a “terrorist sand n-r”, don’t ya? +
American soccer teams are nothing more than copyright infringements: Salt Lake Real, DC United, NYC Red Bulls, LA Chivas USA, etc. carry European and Latin American team names. They put company ads on the uniforms, not allowed in other US pro sports leagues, and nearly 80% of the team players are foreign-born anyways. What a rip-off, and No wonder David Beckham wanted to return home in England.+
In the late 1970’s and early 80s, Professional soccer like roller derby was a brief fad for every sizable populated city or market have a team. Anyone remember the NASL? Nope I guess not, the ABA basketball and WHA hockey leagues died out by 1978 thanks to low finances and the recession. The Los Angeles Aztecs, San Diego Sockers and California Sunshine of Orange county never got the money to pay soccer legend Pele to play, those New Yorkers and Tampa-Miami crowd. I LMAO at the bygone/defunct/folded teams: the Tulsa Roughnecks, Provo Strikers and Anaheim Splash. +
NFL football, CFL football (metric measurements), Rugby in Britain, Ireland or France, AFL rules football in Aus/OZ or NZ, and get ready to crap your pants: the Arena leagues, are what they are: Using an oval brown ball, not a round black-and-white ball, like only the English copyrighted it. +
Still can’t wait for 128. Mesage boards/forums, where you can act like yourselves and be accused of stupid things by moderators or site admins. who act worse than members. +
Football=Soccer to 190 countries in the world, except like 3 of ’em. My Dad rooted for the France 98 World cup champs, the victor was the host country’s team (can be exciting to watch), but the 2006 Italians watched the French do what they do best: surrender and the German home crowd must loved it!
Actually belong to Tampa Bay, Fla. LOL (Mad magazine joke from the 90s about second-rate/semi-pro/minor league sports). Anyone recall the Anaheim Bullfrogs roller hockey international team? I sure do, unless I was having a bad dream at age 14…and Orange county fans love to have a team, but never support it throughly except the owners are Gene Autry “the singing cowboy” believed in Angels and Walt Disney had an ice hockey movie about the Ducks. +
hahaha. that would be a nice joke. PSG has some very racist fans that would absolutely crush white people’s perceptions of paris/france/europe…
soccer will never be big in america i guarantee it for one there is not enough scoring. also soccer can end in a tie which it does alot which of course america hates b/c we like to see someone win and someone lose. Also just the fact we call it soccer separates us from everyone else. it will never be big here. so everyone who says its gonna be big well ur wrong people have been saying that for years and guess what nada nada nada.
Americans hate soccer with a passion. We will always insult it no matter what. We will always question the masculinity of the millions who play it and the billions who watch it, nothing will change that. We are superior because we are American, our sports are superior, foreign sports are inferior.
This is the mindset that no matter what you soccer fags will never change. America’s culture and sports dominate the world. Soccer is inferior, for weak people of lesser physical and mental stature to Americans. Soccer sucks. Soccer sucks, America will always think this you soccerfags.
Why are you so thick headed?
“Note: Europeans are actually into Soccer and are exempt from this entry, however they are free to use it to their advantage when in North America.”
dude your an idiot! If americans are superior than why do they suck at soccer and try to fit in with it!? Soccer is the most beautiful sport in the world! im guessing you like the barbaric game called american football? where everyone uses steroids and the game itself is dull compared to basketball and soccer! Those are the two sport that you have to be really skillful! An American like you probably hates it because they suck at it and want to make themselves feel better by dissing it!
Look at his name it says “Average American.” He’s making fun of Americans if you still don’t get it, not about soccer.
do one on red heads!
American hate soccer ? Or what are you trying to said is that many individuals on the media hate soccer ? Or what about this one: Soccer is inferior ? Are you aware that the only way any athlete could compete in international soccer is by adopting the sport no late than 8 years old…Otherwise forget it, the sport require of a TOP MENTAL AND PHISICAL CONDITION UNMATCH IN ANY SPORT …(that includes NFL)
It is obvious that you do not have a slightest idea of what you are talking about
Hey we can fix that….I goal 7 points ….jejeje or what about the field goal….
you’re a bitch. gosh. go die.
@AAM: Damnit I wanted to say that.
you cant spell.
Your dumb.
“We will always insult it no matter what.” Fair enough, that’s your right, you can think and say whatever you want.
“We will always question the masculinity of the millions who play it and the billions who watch it, nothing will change that.” Again, fair enough; we in Australia question the masculinity of those that play or watch american football when there are those that play in the AFL or in rugby leagues but:
“We are superior because we are American, our sports are superior, foreign sports are inferior?” Your wrong there mate, more people around the world watch the FIFA world cup than the Superbowl (284 million when compared to 93.2 million that watched the Superbowl XLI.)
So can America’s culture and sports really be said to “dominate the world?” Hardly.
Do I lose points for semi following soccer and being only half white? lol
One way I love exploiting a good euro match, espcacially in the US is to give the yanks a bit of an ol’ kickin’ in the arse from the old working class euro roots so that the little pouty soft bottom bastards can learn what’s it like to have some passion for the game rather than playing the pseudo football fan who just wants to massage their yanky ego with how eurocentric they are, most likely due to their own insecurities of their belonging to their own culture…..TYPICAL AMERICAN BEHAVIOUR…. and a weakness I must say…do a test on you american friends today…..ask them about their ancestory and they will give you percentages of at least 3 countries that they supposely have….I guess they all have labs and measure their fucking blood. How puratinical and in the same time hypocritical that is….and so here they are standing in the football terraces with the euros who simply love the game without all that complexed shite that haunts Yanks till this very day….yes yes…
why do I use so many names? I wanted to keep my beloved Micheal D. name untouched, but those nigras got to me.
Yoink
yoink
yoink
my name is soiled forever. +
Y-0-I-N-K!
Americans hate soccer with a passion. We will always insult it no matter what. We will always question the masculinity of the millions who play it and the billions who watch it, nothing will change that. We are superior because we are American, our sports are superior, foreign sports are inferior.
This is the mindset that no matter what you soccer fags will never change. America’s culture and sports dominate the world. Soccer is inferior, for weak people of lesser physical and mental stature to Americans. Soccer sucks. Soccer sucks, America will always think this you soccerfags.
This is the mindset that no matter what you soccer fags will never change. America’s culture and sports dominate the world.
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You realize nobody else in the world watches American football. They tried the NFL in Europe thing and it failed so miserably, they finally had to shut it down after 7 years.
MLS has been around for 15 years and it will continue to thrive despite your hatred towards it. It’s because their business model is a lot more solid than NFL Europe.
Now I need a cup of fair trade coffee
Arthur, what are you talking about? Try to explain that a little better. Do you mean some Americans try to hold on to some history in their ancestry that some may not really have?
BTW-are you a West Ham supporter?
whatever, I am born and raised in the U.S. I love true football (known as soccer in the US) as it is known around the world. We play it and live it in our family, it is practically our religion in our house.
Its not just white, we have a friend that played on the Nigerian National team, our son plays w. his son, families from India, Korea, England, Italy, and more.
My 5th one I used while I reply on SWPL. What sport you’re guaranteed to “never” see a black person in? Ice hockey. There are 10 non-white players in the NHL besides Paul Kariya or Chris Simon, Scott Gomez or…who’s the “black guy” captain of the Edmonton Oilers or Calgary Flames? +
Hey Mr. Wasp, show some support, we played a bloody good game this summer and had those cheeky brazilians up against the wall at half time.
were trying very hard to bring our country some international sporting credentials. Perhaps if you wouldn’t masturbate all night long and try to cheer us on, we could win the world cup in south africa. (if you can manage the masturbation and the cheering, all the better, Personally I find it a little too strenuous)
many thanks, from rainy Fulham
American sports really suck, too many commercials breaks it is unwatchable a 60 min game take 3 hours. and in the NBA they have extra breaks just for the fucking commercials, and I love the time out “I’m tired – time out!!”
fucking pussies!
I am an American and I hate soccer.
But yeah lots of white people here love to pretend to like soccer.
It’s hilarious.
This whole site is so funny because … it’s so true.
Michael, I love how so self contradictory your post is.
You first say:
Soccer in America…it’s not just for “foreigners” anymore.
But then you say:
Thanks to recent waves of immigration into the country, you can spot soccer team wear, items and fans waving their home countries’ flags, even singing the team fan chants…
Proving that indeed it is just for foreigners still.
But that’s why we white people love it so. Well why we like the idea of soccer or I should say “football”.
It does come from an American perspective.
And it is criticizing a certain type of white person.
I guess you would have to mingle within our society to get it. Never studied abroad in America? If you had you should get it immediately because the universities are so so full of it. It is hard for a white person not to get caught up in it at least a little bit in college.
Some ideas I have for “Things White People Like”.
Book clubs:
The Palestinians:
AIDS: (I mean as diseases that we can all “raise awareness” about aren’t we fortunate that there is one out there that actually targets homosexuals”. Without AIDS existing in the first place we wouldn’t have the opportunity to show our gay friends how aware we are of AIDS.
Being one of a few whites attending a black church sermon: (Can I have an Amen to that Brother?).
If you don’t get it you are it!
Actually it he is probably the “exact” type of white person being satirized here.
and since when white people (Americans in particular) loved to watch soccer games
White people love the IDEA of soccer but not actually watching the game.
Hey American-friend. How does it feel to play rugby with large amounts of armour? You question masculinity while your “manliest” game involves wearing protection.
Rugby we do the same, but with only a helmet… and not one of those full face ones you girls wear.
Wow Mr. Angry WASP. You are totally the “wrong kind of white person.” But I digress. What a display of intelligence on your part, btw! You made America proud! “Soccerfags!” What an original and witty comment!
What I really do not understand is the supposed link between sport and masculinity. Rather, the fact that there seems to be an obsession amongst many Americans, much like Mr. WASP, to focus on the supposed aggressiveness of certain sports to the masculinity of those participating in them. “Oooh, ‘soccerfags’ wear shorts and kick a ball around, that makes them soft faggots!” Jesus Christ, grow up. The ironic thing that the U.S. has this large mass of soft, overindulged middle class dolts who truly believe that since their sports are “tough” and “masculine” then they must be the same. The truth is that in most places around the world, football is a working class sport, and their fans and participant are much tougher than you, living in harsher environments. Really, its kinda a bit like the rich douchebag with a small penis who drives the H2 Hummer or Ferrari around town, just to compensate for said penis. And the audacity of those like Mr. WASP to fail to recognize the obvious is plain old hilarious.
Anyway, while I don’t advocate violence, I’d just love for Mr. WASP to spew those statements in East London, or Moss Side Manchester, or in any of the rough areas of the UK, or in East Europe, etc. saying that (proper) football is a “gay” sport. I’m sure they would love to give you their opinion on the matter.
ah.. here goes that football (soccer) vs american football debate again.. why dont all of you try to play badminton instead. it’s more manly.
Yes, but we invented you. That’s right, Europe invented America. I’m sorry, but there it is. Look, I’m not being funny, but it’s kind of like some scientists (us) inventing a self-aware robot (you). It can only ultimately do what the scientists (us again, hellooo!) tell it (you I’m afraid) to do, think, know and believe. And before you get any funny ideas about robots turning on their masters, that only happens on TELEVISION. it’s NOT REAL. That is to say, it DOESN’T HAPPEN. Try saying your comments here in LITTLE PIDDLETON! The sheep would SODDING WELL UNBUTTON YOU!!! NOW YOU’VE GOT ME ALL OF A RUDDY DITHER!!!!!! I SHALL BLOODY MINCE AWAY NOW!!!! F***ING TOODLE PIPPPPPPPPTHBTHBTHBTH!!!
Guilty, guilty and guilty although I will sit down and watch a match if I’m not buying organic foods at the farmers’ market! I love to research the billionaire owners for my blog StuffRichPeopleLove.com! These men are buying sports teams like strippers buy anti-microbial soap. Well, at least they were before the economic crisis…it hurt everyone differently!
Shows how much you know, moron! The Chelsea owner did not flee anywhere.
I think you need to understand the great difference between countries like Australia and the US where there are dominant violent football codes in place of soccer and what it is to be a soccer fan in these places. I grew up in Sydney and the working class game was always rugby league. Soccer on the other hand was seen as essentially an ethnic’s or a “poofter’s” game. Now, “poofter” was more or less code for middle class white people who suffer a cultural cringe at the thought of supporting an indigenous code like AFL or Rugby League (rugby league, while being of English origin has evolved thanks to largely Australian innovations – thus we claim it as our own). These people don’t really like team sports as a rule, and are as far removed from the EPL “stab my team’s rival fans in the face with a rusty lawnmower blade” supporter as you can get. They, as this article indicates, like the “idea” that they are showing their cultural openness and sophistication by supporting the “word game”. Though in reality this is tantamount to arguing that eating MacDonalds is a cultural transcendent experience that speaks to one’s worldliness.
Personally that’s why I hate soccer… not the game itself, but the bourgeois self-satisfied middle class white people that grin and but in to say “I support the world game” whenever you talk about how your NRL team is doing with your mates. Soccer may be a working class game in Europe, but in Australia – if you’re not a poor European immigrant – you’re a middle class white kid who likes the idea of soccer and would rather not get hurt playing the likes of Rugby League, AFL or Union.
If two of my grandparents are of Irish descent, one is of Austrian descent, and one is of French descent, am I going to say all that when someone asks me about it? No. I’m going to say “I’m half Irish, a quarter Austrian, and a quarter French.” It’s quicker and easier to say. We don’t “supposedly” have that ancestry, we do have that ancestry. Our ancestors came over here to the U.S. from all over the world and intermarried with one another, so we don’t have a national identity with respect to ethnicity because of that. “American” is a nationality, not an ethnicity, so we identify with our ancestors’ ethnicity. How is that hypocritical and puritanical?
…….revolutionary war bitch
Tool. The sheep are full of dither? What does that even mean? Look, seriously, if the Revolutionary War wasn’t enough, there was the war of 1812, the Spanish-American War (you’re welcome), World War 1 (the Great War to you – you’re welcome) and WWII (you’re once again welcome). The happy truth is that our American culture was originally the result of a bunch of people not wanting to be European. It was only a product of independence and not being subservient to a person with imaginary influence (i.e. king/queen). We prefered freedom. However, a lot of rednecks and euro trash might not like this, but it was the influence of indians, blacks, hispanics and asians that worked together with whites to create the dynamic force that is the dominant world culture now. Now people like jeans, rock and roll, burgers, fake blonds with big fake knockers (no matter their race), movies, light bulbs, TV electricity, road trips, the sweet smell of freedom… Again, on behalf of America (white, black, brown, yellow, red), you’re welcome.
Americans insult the masculinity of football (soccer)???
This is coming from a nation whose finest athletes feel they have to strap on 45lbs of protective gear and a helmet just to play glorified rugby???
I think he is Ed MacInnis…and you can be called racist for saying that! Better safe not to refer “your people” to any non-white, esp. African-Americans dread to have a white person to use the phrase around them in their expense. You see, there are (a few) black people in pro ice hockey.
In Southern Cal. you’re gonna bump into Mexican, Central American, Southeast Asian, Middle-eastern and Eastern European (the “white ones”) cheering for a national or local soccer team, in sports clubs and small businesses in ethnic neighborhoods or communities. You’re gonna see Latinos wearing Cruz Azul, Chivas, Club America and the green Mexican team uniforms as well caps or shorts with the logo.
American hicks think European guys turned “gay” or some dumb, false or culturally misunderstood things. Are Italians, Spaniards and Greeks known to flaunt their masculinity more than even the most “macho-manly-chav” Americans? southern European cultures, as well found in the rest of the Mediteranean peoples, have traditional sense of maschist pride or attitudes. In these societies until recent decades, men dominated society and women were subordinate, kept at the home and faced cultural restrictions or laws to have enforced male superiority in countries of southern Europe.
Americans are not a “race” but anti-Americanism, alike anti-Semitism, is a global phenomena built in many countries who envy, dislike and oppose American intervention in their cultures, politics and morality. Americanization is feared all over the world, as if the whole world adapted American ways of life…or correctly, 19th century western civilization has overwhelm the local national cultures in the third world.
The point is American white folk want to join in and soccer is gonna stop being portrayed a “foreigner” sport. Don’t we have MLS since the mid 90s when the world cup was held in the USA? I could go on about black ice hockey fans and the lack of other nationalities in baseball, limited to Northern America, eastern Asia and a miniscule European countries participate in the 32-member World baseball championship.
Correction on the word “overwhelm”-ed. Oh boy, I’m going to be chastized for my not-so-perfect English grammar.
Sean, white people will rush to book clubs more than the average day at work (“sorry I was late by 2 minutes, boss”) and make themselves look superior by being frugal by only renting the book in a public library (note the namesake). Who wants to buy a $15 book when you can read it for a week for FREE?
The Palestinians are less favored, because an actual person of Middle-eastern descent will scare the bejesus out of a redneck white person. Then again, the Palestinians are “victims” of Israel or wealthy rich white Jewish bankers, maybe the KKK and neo-Nazis will grant ’em a “race pass”.
And about AIDS: nowadays you can’t be hating gays and blacks whether from Africa or the Caribbean (i.e. Haitians, Dominicans or Jamaicans). The “illness de jure” by white people is autism, but the media-hyped publicity and hysteria of H1N1, SARS and Avian flu is putting a pandemic affecting 3 to 5 million people way behind.
love you dempsey, in a totally straight sports fan way f**k wasp
…coached baseball…my assistant coach used to call soccer kids “field fairies”.
1. Italy = last world cup winners. You wish you could flop like that. Forza Azzuri
2. English teams suck – all the teams except for those based in London (especially Arsenal) play super-boring and uncultured football (fine for people pretending to like soccer, lethal for those trying to watch it). French, German, Spanish and Italian leagues are all better for viewing purposes.
ManUre sucks, you tool.
yeah so actually if the likelihood of stupidity in non-soccer fans is nearly triple the national average.
If there was any doubt that Europe is superior than America in every way, just look at the European football vs. American football debate.
European football is ten times more respected, watched, worshipped, played and loved and has ten times the talent pool.
Every day I wake up, eat a panini sandwich from the organic food market and finish it off with a 1953 vintage Resiot before hopping onto my Vespa and riding around in the beautiful splendor that is Europe. I also look at the mirror every day and admire my fashionable taste in clothes and fit figure from playing European football. If I was American, I’d be fat, wearing plastic shoulder pads and lycra tights.
Good job Europe. European football is so much more revered and respected. I’m not European, but I have the European influence from being a former colony of England. Americans like stuff where grown men touch each other. Thus, football and wrestling is popular. Though, UFC is quickly growing popular because Americans want to be as badass as Brazilian and Taiwanese fighters. It will never happen.
I’m Australian and we do the same thing but with surfing. There’s a funny blog on it at ‘Things Australians love’
the correct name for soccer is association football, this came from that fact that back in the day their were many codes of football, a bunch of people go together and codified the system.
Rugby football was an offshoot because certain schools(especially the one in rugby) thought that the new rules made the game to pansy(it had at the time to do with chopping, which is basically kicking people in the shins, rugby wanted it, association didnt)
As assoc. spread it went to other colonies, it became popular with the working class, but rugby became popular with the elite. At america the elite usually went to english universities and played rugby, and as the anti-english sentiment grew they decided to make their own game similar to rugby but distinct enough to be american. This is also why white(non commenwealth countries) like rugby because it is old school, european and ivy league.
Chelsea FC. Best team ever. Top of the EPL atm. Frank Lampard. Best player ever.
Dunno why. That’s how I grew myself up to be here in America.
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How about this?
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I wonder what kind of parsing system they have that disallows me to make comments in my abugida
Manchester United for life. Giggs and Rooney for life. CR7 is a fag
ahem but i do believe you meant to say ARSENAL is the best team ever!
you don’t get much better than fabregas! plus look at their past players. does thierry henry seem to ring a bell 🙂
Heh, I love soccer. I actually have a fave team, CRUZ AZUL FOR LIFE. lol. Yeah, prbly never heard of them, they’re Mexican. :D. But yeah, half the whities I know think soccer is stupid, I know a couple of dudes who are pretty hardcore soccer fans though. its cool.
seriously, best hands ever.
No one cares.. You’re Australians. They should add to our list: #150 — Hating on Australians
Thank you for enlightening me!!
Will you help me paint my room?
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ok so my friend visited Barcelona and he was asking me” did you see the big rival Barça game vs.athletico madrid , man i hate them “, and i said yeah, im thinking first off our rivals is madrid , and i ask him i never knew you liked them , then i ask him did you know messi is being moved? and he said yeah i am so pissed about that he sucks , and im like BS , and then he was thinking “SHIT” he caught me , you can never full a REAL Spanish Barça fan
In the U.k. ( a country full of white people) soccer is a national obsession, and people tend to be pretty knowledgable about it, to the point of informing you as a foreigner about why you should support whichever team the individual supports and hate all the others. Seriously I live here and I know.
You needn’t have said it was OK for us Europeans, just saying soccer instead of football is enough for us to know this is just a US perspective.
We also don’t often profess to loving football, you talk to most football fans and you’ll get a weary and dejected response. We actually do it out of a perverse compulsion.
It is worth pointing out that any one who follows Man U is a c#nt and Tottenham are the c#nts that Man U c#nts sh#t on.
Not from where I come from they don’t.
Rugby League, or Rugby Union.. (or AFL if the Lions are winning).
fave bands in the usa:
1. man united
2. chelsea
3. arsenal
4. liverpool
5. the rest of the english premier league
6. wait what… there are more teams out there??
i mean Teams oops
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Chelsea is my favourite team don’t hate on me I’m just saying I just wish Drogba wasn’t such a drama queen
Drogba is a flopper, but seriously I dont really care what he does as long as he keeps the form hes in this season.
And btw he’s no where near as bad as Christiano Ronaldo is.
soccer is a simplistic game for children. the requisite skill level is primitive and pathetic by comparison with more evolved football games. A big round ball, flat field, put it in the net, simple. Consequently it’s nigh on impossible to get a result. It’s so popular because it’s so simple. Any malnourished third world kiddie with an inflated goat bladder can do it. Contrast with field hockey – a virtually identical game with more difficult equipment – and suddenly we have a clear result. This is why fans riot at soccer games – the sheer frustration of sitting through an hour or so of this tedious spectacle only to end up with a draw would try the patience of a saint. Perhaps if the net was removed, or it was played on the side of a hill, or the players were armed one might have a game worthy of adult attention. Until then any discussion of this alleged sport by anyone past grade school is entirely moot.
Yea you must be white!
This is so full of win, you don’t even know it.
Now, Football, B-ball, Tennis, Ultimate Frisbee, etc…. these are sports with actual skill-sets (and yes, I realize, that ultimate frisbee is a thing that WPL, but I’m not white, so it’s ok 🙂 ).
I thought that’s what I said.
Hackey-Sack is like soccor for lazy white people–you don’t have to run.
wow I think there are ku klu klan members less ignorant then you
Premier League blows. I don’t know how anyone can stand watching those boorish matches much less listen to the tommy smythe talk out of his ass.
White people who are not only “interested in” but actually watch soccer follow La Liga.
Well said. I have often comment that Soccer is acceptable to play if you are a pre-adolescent male or College age female but never acceptable to watch.
I bet the woman in the picture has been invited to a networking event, and she’ll spend most of the game drinking champagne behind a huge glass in the v.i.p. lounge.
What exactly is a “more evolved football game”? If you mean field hockey, then you are an idiot. But you’re an idiot anyway, so it’s a moot point. The requisite skill level for soccer is HIGHER than most other sports out there, for one simple reason: you can’t use your hands! (except for the goalies of course) If you had ever taken the time to actually try playing soccer, you would certainly realize that it is a lot harder than it looks. You may not enjoy watching soccer, which is fine, it certainly isn’t for everyone. But millions of people do enjoy it, which once again shows your intellectual ineptitude. By the way, people riot at soccer games because they’re drunk, not because they’re frustrated at sitting through the game. If it was frustration, they would stop going to games, and soccer would no longer be the world’s most popular sport.
If you think I’m calling hockey football then you are an even bigger moron than you accuse me of being. go back and read the post to see the allegory.
Gridiron is a more evolved football game
all the codes of rugby are more sophisticated
Gaelic football is more sophisticated
Australian rules football is more sophisticated.
Soccer’s massive popularity lies in it’s simplicity – anyone can do it. skills are limited to manipulating a large round ball with your feet. simple. a three year old child will do it instinctively, but they can’t dribble a basketball or throw a decent cut out pass.
McDonalds sell a lot of hamburgers but it doesn’t make it good food.
simpleton
I can agree with you about McDonald’s, but that’s about it. Soccer is certainly a simple game, but not everyone has the requisite skill to play it. You have obviously never played it yourself, or else you would understand how hard it is to manipulate a large round ball with your feet, legs, knees, chest, and head. Make sure to read that last sentence again, because it’s important to the point I’m trying to get into your thick skull. In fact, I’ll try and make it as simple for you as possible. Soccer is played with EVERY part of your body except your hands (and arms), NOT JUST YOUR FEET. A three year old is just as likely to pick up a ball as they are to kick it. But they certainly cannot control a soccer ball with their feet any better than they can dribble a basketball or throw a baseball. Humans are designed to manipulate objects with their hands, not their feet. That makes any sport that restricts the use of your hands HARDER, not easier.
Soccer is not popular because it is simple, soccer is popular because it is incredibly fun to play. Maybe you should give it a shot before you talk any more smack about it.
What a pathetically American comment. Yes, football’s genius lies in its simplicity and therefore everyone can play it. But simple rules and simple equipment do not result in a game that requires no skill, and therefore while everyone can play it, not everyone can be good at it.
If you honestly believe that any rugby or gridiron player, proceding down the pitch by simply carrying a ball in his hands, possesses more skill than Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona or Pele (google them) then you are, quite simply, a fool. To use your feet to control an item is much harder than to use your hands, that is a fundamental of human physiology.
Also, other forms of football are not ‘more evolved’ they simply branched off and evolved in different ways. You clearly know nothing about the biggest, most popular sport in the world or its history, so please refrain from commenting on it.
of course I’ve played soccer!
everyone has haven’t they?
it’s simple.
I dont see the soccer player as being anywhere near as skilled as say, a rugby player. but you wouldn’t understand that, because you don’t understand rugby. I do, however, understand soccer. Even the offside rule, and lets face it, that’s the most complex thing about the game. I’m sure soccer players are very skilled. At playing soccer, that is. This is a relative thing. I doubt a soccer player would last five minutes on a rugby pitch, but rugby players play soccer for training!
Ping pong is more diificult (trying to keep a tiny ball on a small table), basketball is more dfficult (putting a soccer ball in a small hoop), golf is more difficult (putting a tiny ball in a tiny hole a mile away) in fact I think any sport you could name is more sophisticated than soccer. Anyway it’s all covered in the original post. I doubt you bothered to take it in. Just took off on a knee jerk reaction. I suspect the reason you can’t understand my point is that you, like soccer, are simple. Which is why you challenge me with insults.
I’m not american. I’m australian.
I’m not saying soccer requires no skill, just a lot less skill than most other sports. This is borne out by the number of truly excellent Soccer players in the world. I’ll stick with the rugby allegory – the fact that rugby allows you to use your hands and feet immediately and obviously makes it more complex than soccer. You’ve got twice the options to begin with! To be fair. I doubt you know anything about rugby, so I don’t think you’re in a position to really comprehend, but simply consider the oblong ball. If rugby was played with a round ball I’d take your point, but the oblong ball is infinitely more difficult to manipulate and unpredictable in it’s movement. In addition one is under considerable pressure when in possession of the ball due to the impending physical threat of being forcefully and physically tackled. There are also three different options for scoring. And the final sacred mystery of promoting the ball by only moving it backwards. Soccer contains nothing even close to that level of sophistication. Put “Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona or Pele ” on a rugby pitch and let us see their athleticism in that arena. By contrast a professional rugby player would find soccer a snack! On a final note, soccer’s lack of sophistiction is further attested to by it’s popularity in less sophisticated countries. In fact it’s popularity seems to be inversely proportionate to the sophistication of the region it is played in, for example south america, northern africa and england.
I’m sorry but I just get the feeling that you are comparing apples to oranges, to say one sport is easier to do than another is like saying one form of art is easier to make than an other. And just for the sake of asking, if rugby players are so much more skilled than soccer players, than why wouldn’t they play soccer and crush all the lowly soccer players with their incredibly superior skill levels? If you wanted to compare it with something black and white, in a professional game, the average soccer player runs 8.5 kilometres and the average rugby player runs 3 kilometres. Obviously this numbers varies with depending on position in rugby, but it is still no where close, a rugby player would be lying on the ground by the end of the first half… (and just so you know I have played both rugby and soccer, and I enjoy both sports but find it impossible to classify one easier than another)
man another ignorant australian.
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As a subcategory, I would suggest getting their kids involved in children’s soccer leagues.
I really, really love this post. As a white person who does not like soccer (nor pretends to), I have a plethora of white friends who strangely have an “interest” in it. Bravo!
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This post is so spot-on, it just hurts.
By the way, the trip was to Italy in 1994, I have watched every World Cup since, and I just finished my fourth year of playing adult soccer.
Ouch.
Can someone please explain to me why soccer has a bigger fanbase thatn real sports like football and baseball? Or why its the most watched TV sport in the world.
Soccer is boring and irrelevant, only American sports have the money, power and flash to be exciting.
I hate soccer. My country is all about soccer everybody is talking about it and since I hate it I can’t get into a conversation with people.
And geez what kind of name is this? Succer. Sucker
It’s the most-watched TV sport in the world, because it’s truly international, not insular like American sports. I’m not insulting Baseball and [American] Football, just saying that the American leagues swallow up any genuine international talent.
The American system of franchising major sports is terrible, I have to say – in England, everyone has a local football (soccer) team, most of whom have existed for 100 years plus. There’s a history there. American teams exist when someone can afford a franchise, and somehow demand an instant loyalty.
oh, but in reply to the original post – as a soccer fan, it’s truly embarassing to hear Americans talk about the game, it just… just doesn’t sound right. Imagine watching Baseball with a British-accented commentary?
Hahaha go look at Real Madrid’s bankroll…Yankees can’t touch it.
I tried to get into it. I know names like Wayne Rooney, and I watched a couple of LA Galaxy games on TV, but then I DVR’d a game and the entire conversion came to a crashing end. I could not resist looking up whe goals were scored, and then fast forwarding to the surrounding minutes. It became just a long highlights show, but there was absolutely no one to discuss even my appreviated watching, so now I have lost interest.
You make a great point.
Enjoy the Game,
Mario
actually, the yankees have just moved into the top spot in the most valuable franchise list. dumbass
Soccer is for gay white people.
White people play football and run track and jump high. White people wanna like soccer, but they have so many other sports that soccer kinda gets put on the back burner. I’m sorry if all you have to like is soccer.
Typical American arrogance.
Oh boy.. you are a genius. It’s mere a few days before the beginning of the world cup and I will LOL watching the soccer wannabes floating the bars.
Tip: Go watch the games, have fun, but don’t spend $75 on a shirt you will wear 4 times.
HI,
you are great with your knowledge about white people 😉
Tell me if I’m black or white …..
Sometimes I watch soccer like this WC2010. I dont have a favorite, I dont know anything about soccer just like I dont know anything about other type of sports.. I buy T-Shirts when I need them and I dont want to have any advertising on them.
When I watch a game, I shout GO for the team which is the weakest one.
So whats with me? Black or white 😉
The A-Team (2010) – There Is No Plan B
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what?
If hating soccer is a symbol of American arrogance, then I am one ugly American.
Soccer is just not gonna be popular here. Or Canada. Or the myriad of other countries that make up the 50% of this globe that just doesn’t get it and has no interest in ever getting it.
Just some facts:
– the Super Bowl is the most-watched American television broadcast; quoting Wikipedia: “Super Bowl XLIV, became the most-watched American television program ever, drawing an average audience of 106.5 million viewers”…. Mostra tutto
– The 2006 FIFA World Cup, staged in Germany, had a total cumulative television audience of 26.29 BILLION.
– The final Italy vs France had a global cumulative audience of 715.1 million viewers;
– The final in 2002 had even more viewers (1,001 million) because staged in Asia and consequently the kick-off times for live matches were during prime viewing hours across most of the region.
All that makes the FIFA World Cup the most watched sporting event on TV of the world.
Americans, open your minds :)))
“The 2006 FIFA World Cup, staged in Germany, had a total cumulative television audience of 26.29 BILLION”…. dude there are not so many people on the planet let alone watching a game on TV.
cumulative
Head over to #133 “The world cup”. Let the global battle of the balls begin. The US team shows they can play soccer. No more France and Italia, they are *gasp* eliminated. xD
umm… “total cumulative television audience”
meaning, if 100 million watch one game, and 150 million watch another game… that’s 250 million, total. The people can be repeated
But as mentioned in #95, white people really like rugby. Latin Americans and Black people really play and watch soccer
Why would anybody want to visit Manchester?
guess what buddy, the US is gone too…
Europeans watch and play soccer too! Although we call it football. America is the only country that widely used the term “soccer”, which kind of bothers me!
When I was in North America it stood out to me that girls are a lot more into playing football than here in Europe. Football is mostly a guy thing here. In the world cup and The European Championship. They of course are watching and supporting their home country in the games.
It should never bother you that people use the word “soccer” to describe the game. People have been using the word in Britain for centuries. It’s common misconception to assume that somehwo the word morphed into soccer as soon as game came to North America. Look it up. Don’t be ignorant
I said Americans widely use the word soccer. Not that ‘just’
Americans use the word soccer to describe the game.
Americans made a difference between the word football and soccer.
Which bothers me.
Stephen Colbert said it best, “Soccer a game for 4th graders that somehow the rest of the world takes seriously.”
Stephen Colbert is a thing that white people enjoy. Well, white elitist liberals at least.
Seriously, the funniest thing Stephen Colbert ever did is… wait… nothing. Nothing at all was funny that Stephen Colbert did.
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I guess rest of the world is wrong; the rest of the world doesn’t care about throwball(NFL),baseball,basketball or Hockey. American sport pundits don’t want you to like soccer because unlike NFL with 3:1/2 of commericals and 30 minutes of action; soocer is nonstop action with only 15 minutes of commericals in between. THINK a Little for your self!!!!!
all american sports are boring…
Of course it wont be popular in America or Canada.You Americans have no talent WHATSOEVER for soccer.
you hit the nail right on the head
Major League Soccer is really successful in some markets: Los Angeles area (no NFL team) and the Pacific Northwest (Seattle & Vancouver lost NBA, Portland granted a team), a new team in Canada (Montreal) already one in Toronto and the retro-namesake of the San Jose Earthquakes. The perfect demographic for a MLS team is 1. wealthy white worldly fans act like they are part of a global game (L.A. Galaxy) and 2. the four-fifths of the fan base made of Mexicans or other Latinos (esp. in Chivas USA games). For some reason, MLS failed in Florida when teams in the Miami and Tampa area fold operations in the late 2000s.
“The Idea of Soccer” OMG, in the past I’ve actually said I like the idea of the World Cup but when I sit down to watch it I can’t deny that it bores me to tears, so much so that I always miss the goals because by the time someone kicks one I’ve usually drifted off into a daydream or gone to make a coffee.
ha ha!! hilarious
The reason MLS failed in Miami and Tampa is because “Latino” does not = soccer fan. I’m from South America so I was raised on football, but lived in Miami, and it is mostly Cuban. Cubans, like Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, are less into soccer than Americans are. Baseball is the most popular sport there, and this is the same case with Cuban immigrants to Miami.
True as well, I remember in high school there were a hand full of less than masculine teachers who just hated football and seemed to have a campaign to replace it with soccer as the national sport. These types are common amongst the hipster whites who think soccer makes them more sophisticated than Joe Sixpack types who like baseball and football. Especially in a very, very hipster white city like Portland. When I lived there I actually heard an announcement from a newsman on the radio ridiculing an attempt to snag an NFL franchise as “That’s the past, the REAL smart move is to bring major league soccer to Portland THAT’S the future.” Well, whose drawing more attendance these days? soccer and the WNBA? or the Dallas Cowboys?
Fact: There are a lot of people buying up Prius’ where I live so it seems to be a popular car.
They also drive like pansies and for whatever reason, believe the speed limit is 10mi less than it is.
I still like my American made Mustang.
Our minds are open, but we don’t care for a pansy game no matter how ‘popular’ it is worldwide.
I dint know how tocomment so i just replied to yours i find the fact that she has an fcbarcelona scary and a realmadrid jacket hilarious
Now, that would have been hilarious, (Barcelona scarf and Real Madrid jacket) but the jacket is from Spain’s national team. I personally thik that Real Madrid is a much better example of a Spanish team since it is the most popular team in that country. Anyway, this was just to clarify 😉
It’s remarkable how differently considered can a sport be in one country or another. You point out, or at least I perceived it that way, that soccer is not very accepted in America and it is considered to be a girls and a pansy sport, whereas in Europe and Latin America is the other way around… Different perspectives, all considered correct in their countries of origin.
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Lol i am not exactly sure what your trying to get at here but most white people i know are very into soccer and extremely passionate about it.
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Truth! basically the only Spanish speaking country with strong Caribbean ties that is passionate about soccer is Colombia
It is actually hilarious because a lot of Barcelona fans don’t like the Spanish national team that much. they would much rather see an all Catalonian team compete internationally. Suck it.
Best thing ever: asking a “soccer fan” what there favorite team is and have them name at least 5 starters
Have you ever even tried to play it?
I mean, do you have any idea what you talking about? So simple?
Like that asshole James that said that american sportts are the only ones with money and shit to make it good or something like that, do you really have any idea about soccer?
Wow, can you be that stupid?
Having more options makes its more difficult? Wish that were the same not in sports but in jobs or making money, the less options you have, the easier and more doable a thing is.
The number of good players of soccer in the world? OF COURSE IDIOT, THERE ARE MUCH MORE PEOPLE THAT PLAY SOCCER, NOT BECAUSE IT´S EASIER TO PLAY!!!
If soccer werent the most played game in the world, you wouldnt see that number of good players.
Even played soccer with a rugby player in a semi proffesional level or in a game with referee and rules applied? They dont last too minutes in the field, not to mention a full run through the length of the field in a counter attack.
Try to not feel the pressure when you have the ball in soccer plus the fact you CANT grab the ball with your hands. That´s shophisticated? Being like a thief running away?
Oh, south american isnt sophisticated? Kind of idiot you are, wonder why aussie women love unsophisticated cocks like mine (im argentinian).
Besides, you ommit parts of europe like germany, france, italy, ireland (the whole europe maybe). If you think that we south americans are brute people, you conveniently ommit those countries.
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Un chico de 3 años ajjaja, sure they can play australian football (or what the boy might think is “australian football”), but even playing with the least respect of soccer rules, it isnt a “simple” game.
Want sophistication? Play chess, or horse races “the sport of the kings”; oh wait, just some guys riding horses!!
Yes, like you often say that your wife is loyal and faithfull to you.
So what?
I guess in Seattle folks–30,000 or so–have gone one step further and don’t just attend a local professional match, but actually hold season tickets to the MLS. Nevertheless, I can’t help feeling this bloke is right and it’s really got a lot to do with the scarves: http://gilmanpark.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/seattle-sounders-and-the-idea-of-soccer/
Seems like the game is almost incidental at times.
the only thing I like about soccer is yelling Goooaaalll!
Mission complete.You may die now.
I’ll make you yell goal when I Judo slap you with the mere might of my uncircumcised penis. Whaapp! (Gooaall!)
This is so true. hardcore soccer fans from around the globe know there soccer and show it with culture/passion, im a teen and the kids that play soccer over here in america only play mostly because there parents force them too. They dont have that spark of love for the game and emotion like south america, european, central american kids have.
i’m sorry but this blog is not about white people – its about white middle class americans. im a british teenager and we are OBSESSED with ‘soccer’, or football, and it is really annoying that you always think that america is the whole of the world! europe isnt some odd and mystical place, its where most of the white people are, so technically we should be included!!!
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it says europeans are exempt… Britain is in Europe…
I’m a white guy who was born and raised in South Africa. In support of Melsine’s comment, white AND black people here are obsessed with soccer (and no, its got nothing to do with us hosting the 2010 world cup).Your article makes it clear that you don’t understand that soccer is a magnificently international and cross-cultural game. It seems that you suffer from America-is-the-world syndrome; I recommend you get that checked out.
A white African? you mean an Albino!
A witch! Steal his organs!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34182250/ns/world_news-africa/t/albinos-east-africa-fear-lives-after-killings/
Okay, all of the people commenting like this need to know that this post, and this blog, is intentionally tongue-in-cheek. Americans don’t think the world revolves around us, and neither does the author of this blog. This post was intended to make fun of the very true fact that a lot of middle-class Americans say a lot of stuff about “the beautiful game” etc. but don’t know anything about football/soccer. I know a lot of people who will meet me, find out that I’m a huge Barca fan, and say “Oh yeah I love that team!” Of course, two weeks in the future, whenever I ask them excitedly, “Did you watch that game against so-and-so?” they won’t know what the hell I’m talking about.
The author of this blog has made it pretty clear that when he says “white people” he’s not talking about all Caucasians. He’s talking about a specific subset of hipster, liberal-minded, middle-class Americans. Not all white people fit into this category, obviously; not all Americans or even all middle-class members do either.
I think that regardless where you live, if you are truly a hardcore soccer fan you should know a lot about the sport and the game to say that you know anything at all. The game is very old and there i a lot that goes into it.
China owns America now… or soon will.
You guys don’t even seem to aknowledge this fact.
stop saying mate and don’t be racist you english son of a bitch. some of the u.k. teams are good, i’ll admit that but seriously chill the fuck out
Soccer is gay
Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking.
Fuck you
May the US doesn´t understand what u call “soccer”. that´s called FOOTBALL. if u ever meet a few football hooligans, anywhere in europe, u won´t be able to consider “soccer is gay” once in a lifetime.
football is the mainsport in the whole of europe, south america, in wide parts of africa and even in the arabian countries they are into football.
just the opposite of baseballs. almost noone in the whole world likes that.
this blog is funny but it kinda makes me afraid of doing these things just because I don’t want to seem like a stereotypical white person…
I guess not wanting to be like everyone else is another thing white people like
well I am better of looking like a douche than being afraid of looking like a douche
Gene Meyer, soccer is amazing, your just a big wuss. Soccer is Not gay, you are.
Are you serious, your just a big wuss. Soccer is definitely not gay. You are freaking gay.
Gene Meyer is gay
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Why Germans always win at it: http://www.isitajoke.de/2012/11/8-why-germans-never-lose-at-sport.html
Your note is wrong.
The whiter and richer people are in Europe, the less that they watch or play football.
The darker and poorer people are, the more they watch it and they play it a lot. I found this to be true in America too (Mexico and Argentina).
So in Europe “white people” don’t like football…
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It’s called football! (everywhere except in that funny place called the USA, where “football” is a weird sport that has nothing to do with real football).
@kollo: “football is the main sport in the whole of europe, south america, in wide parts of africa and even in the arabian countries they are into football.”
I think the blog author posts a very american centric idea of sports indeed. He may be black or white, but he definitely shows that he is an american. North american even, because the rest of the continent does know what football all is about!
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“It’s called football! (everywhere except in that funny place called the USA, where “football” is a weird sport that has nothing to do with real football).”
Actually, I think you’ll find that in the majority of the English speaking world the sport is indeed called “soccer”.
This may come as a surprise, but the combined populations of the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand have quite significantly more people than the United Kingdom.
Which means it is in fact called “soccer” and not “football” ;-).
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