Many people who haven't had the experience of playing soccer often say that it is extremely boring to watch. When people tell me that I wonder how they could think such a fun and carefree sport could be boring. People at school would also say that only "pussies" play soccer and that football is a real mans sport. That's how it even is in movies, it's always the big tough guys that play football and the little wimps play soccer that everyone makes fun of. That is the picture that a lot of people have of soccer players and I couldn't disagree with it more.
Soccer is a very difficult sport to become good at. It takes many hours of practice and hard work because it is all with your feet and normal people don't have naturally gifted feet with a soccer ball. On the other hand when it comes to football you basically have to be big and I don't think it takes nearly as much practice as soccer. So therefore I think people should give soccer players more credit than they are given.
Many parents and kids also think soccer is extremely boring to watch which is why you will always see hundreds of people at high school football games and not too many at a high school soccer game. I personally find soccer really fun to watch especially if they are good because I learn so much from watching and I feel like i'm playing. I love watching soccer now that I have stopped playing it because it brings back a lot of memories and makes me miss it. That is the closest thing I have to staying somewhat into it.
I think that the reason people find it to be a "pussy" sport is because they really don't know what it takes to become a successful soccer player and all of the hardwork they put in. I think that people find it so boring to watch is because they can't relate their lives to it and they don't understand it. Just by watching one soccer game certain things that players do while I watch, bring back so many good memories of all of the years that I have palyed soccer. People who haven't had soccer experiences can't do that so therefore they think its boring.
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I have to admit I'm one of those people who finds soccer pretty boring to watch. I enjoy playing (though I've never played in a real game) but I just can't watch for long. When I lived in Chicago, my husband coached a high school team and it was all I could do to force myself to go to one game a year.
ReplyDeleteNow my kids both play and have since they were four. I enjoy watching them but not so much because it's soccer but more because it's my kids. I want them and their friends to do well and have fun.
I think the reason I don't like watching soccer, though, is that there is so little success. One team gets the ball, takes it down the field and then turns it over. The other team then gets the ball, takes it down the field and turns it over. And so it goes, back and forth. No one ever scores. How is this different than scoreless innings in baseball or drives ending in punts in football, though? I'm not sure, but to me it is. What do you all think?
--Kristen