for little girls to play

http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=7541

4/30/2007 10:36:11 PM

for falling asleep.

4/30/2007 10:36:35 PM

i like soccer...especially when watching it with my international buddies

but they are pussies a lot of the time

4/30/2007 10:44:19 PM

hahaha the first one is the best one

4/30/2007 11:00:02 PM

i'd like soccer a lot more if they didn't dive so much .

i also don't like maxim linking to youtube as content, cheap bastards.

4/30/2007 11:05:53 PM

nah man, the title of your thread got it right

4/30/2007 11:33:38 PM

I agree that it is a great sport and that it is annoying when the players fake injury, although they do get hurt sometimes. American's don't like soccer because they have short attention spans and need play to stop after a few seconds, or minutes.

4/30/2007 11:40:33 PM

americans like action, they just get bored with soccer, I mean how many attempts on goal are there in a normal game, I mean hell even with baseball (3rd most boring sport in the world) one pitch can change the whole game

4/30/2007 11:43:06 PM

soccer is almost as bad and pointless as cross country

4/30/2007 11:45:36 PM

Watch some of the Champions Cup going on right now. There are guys like Cristiano Ronaldo that I absolutely hated during the World Cup befause of all the dives that I like to watch in club play.

4/30/2007 11:49:02 PM

once you watch European soccer (Champions League, Premiership, Liga Primera, et cetera) you can never go back to anything else

On the international scene, the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Latinos of all sorts are the absolute worst about diving, it's pretty infuriating... although it's not rewarded as much as it used to be

that's one of the thousands of reasons never to watch Mexican League soccer

4/30/2007 11:55:43 PM

Maxim should stick to fauxporn

4/30/2007 11:56:45 PM

really its just an awful game

4/30/2007 11:59:23 PM

really though, this kind of thread has been done a thousand fucking times

let it go

5/1/2007 12:17:51 AM

soccer is for mexican trolls.

what a dumb ass sport.

5/1/2007 1:23:33 AM

the football coach at my HS would always say:

"Soccer isn't a sport, it's an activity"




needless to say, the soccer team pretty much hated him lol

5/1/2007 2:26:34 AM

you football people and your "pads" and "substitutions"

fucking pansies

5/1/2007 2:31:41 AM

watching no one score has never been more fun

5/1/2007 3:10:07 AM

Quote :

"i'd like soccer a lot more if they didn't dive so much"

those are only the portugese and italians and sometimes the french

5/1/2007 5:54:29 AM

the brazilians are notorious divers

see rivaldo in 2002

and ronaldo every time he gets anywhere near the 18

5/1/2007 5:55:37 AM

Rivaldo's still with accursed Olympiakos

5/1/2007 7:48:49 AM

it's not something I really enjoy to watch as I want to see more shots on goal, or scoring chances over a span of 90 minutes. However, it's a hell of a lot of fun to see how much the rest of the free world gets into it; not only do you get a sporting event, but you get a concert performed by 60,000+

5/1/2007 7:58:36 AM

one of these days, derek, i'll convert you

the EPL review show might be the best sports show on TV

5/1/2007 8:37:05 AM

that shit is funny though

5/1/2007 9:08:41 AM

wow i thought that first one had to be a joke but google says otherwise

5/1/2007 9:12:55 AM

i like soccer

this is silly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S9CfdkMFR8

5/1/2007 10:09:20 AM

haha, awesome thread

5/1/2007 10:44:41 AM

I like the second video of the goalie humping the ground

5/1/2007 11:05:05 AM

for me to poop on

5/1/2007 11:47:24 AM

I can't stand diving. Fortunately it doesn't happen at many levels below college, and even then rarely. However, I do remember a camp I was at one year where they had a collegiate girls team come to show us some strategy and moves, and their star forward showed us how you trip yourself when you have an almost breakaway to earn a penalty kick. To this day I still know how to do that move, although I wouldn't ever actually use it. She said she had earned several PK opportunities off of that play.

The reason diving happens is because it is rewarded and the penalties aren't high enough. If instant replay for match review was allowed and anyone caught diving was suspended from the next match, it would stop, but the leagues aren't willing to do that.

Soccer as a sport becomes much more impressive if you have played it before at a high level of competition, which I don't think is the case for most people.

For my money, if you want to watch the best soccer in the world, you'll watch the Premiership. They play a tough, hard-nosed style that rewards effort, aggressiveness, and teamwork, as opposed to the Italian and Spanish leagues which have a tendency to be more delicate and individual.

5/1/2007 12:16:48 PM

I'd have to search forever to find the mag, but there was once a quote from a forward that had been playing in Italy and came to the EPL that was something along the lines of: "It's much harder to play on the ball here. In Italy, they'll give you the time and space to turn, but here, they're on you before you can even think."

I'll never forget watching the opening of that Man U-Milan match, and Ronaldo was running up the flank around 40 yards out, and Nesta was playing five yards off him, retreating in a defensive stance. I'm for United, but even I was screaming, "STEP UP ON HIM, YOU DOLT!"

5/1/2007 12:25:11 PM

10/10

Dives in soccer at much worse than flops in basketball b/c the soccer players act as if their leg was cut off.

Anyways, Australian Rules Football ftw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_hqosNvv5E&mode=related&search=

5/1/2007 12:33:41 PM

I'M TELLING YOU RUGBY IS A MUCH BETTER INTL SPORT

5/1/2007 3:44:23 PM

only because of the haka

5/1/2007 3:45:24 PM

soccer is the best sport in the world

signed,

jim rome

that dude hates some soccer

5/1/2007 4:07:23 PM

the best is when he talks to his son on the air

5/1/2007 4:09:24 PM

People would probably think more of soccer if they would play at a competetive level

5/1/2007 5:07:50 PM

Quote :

"People would probably think more of soccer if they would play at a competetive level it wasn't gay "

5/1/2007 5:09:07 PM

Soccer needs instant replay worse than any other sport in the world. First it would kill diving (which should be minimum a yellow, and a red for an aggregious offense) and they could stop fucking up goal/no goal calls. The only time soccer players are ever honorable is on out of bounds calls. Thankfully, for whatever reason, they're self-policing on that.

5/1/2007 9:20:44 PM

Yeah but these things happen so much in games that you'd have to actually stop play (which is of course something that doesn't happen in soccer) to check every 10 minutes. A minute check every ten minutes adds up to about 5 minutes of stoppage time per half by itself.

5/1/2007 11:11:41 PM

^^^

you forgot the caps lock

faggot

5/1/2007 11:18:30 PM

Fact: Roy Carroll hates goal line technology.

5/1/2007 11:34:08 PM

this self policing thing interests me

5/2/2007 5:07:32 AM

Watching soccer is kinda like watching Duke play basketball

5/2/2007 5:56:59 AM

^
What
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fuck

5/2/2007 8:47:52 AM

Interesting....what makes soccer gay? The diving thing is outrageous, and no one is disagreeing with that, but I think if you had nearly 80 thousand square feet of space to cover and only 11 guys to do it, you might rethink that. This isn't basketball, where it's 90 feet from one goal to the other. Every man on that field is responsible for about ten thousand square feet of real estate, albeit not entirely without help.

From far away to the untrained eye it may look like like people are just dancing around, but I can guarantee you it's not. There is more physical contact in soccer than in baseball or basketball, and no one says anything about those sports. I saw Iker Casillas, the star Spanish goalkeeper, slide to stop a shot, and his opponent slid feet first, boots up right into him and caught him flush in the face with the bottom of his cleats with his leg fully extended, and the ref didn't even call a foul. A few years ago in the 94 World Cup, Brazil's Leonardo elbowed Tab Ramos in the head so hard he knocked him unconscious.

5/2/2007 9:42:17 AM

^^ Isn't it obvious? Duke players are almost as good at flopping as those soccer players

5/2/2007 10:48:25 AM

^^RUGBY IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT

5/2/2007 10:55:58 AM

Rugby may be a more physically combative sport, but that does not make it "more difficult."

5/2/2007 11:04:04 AM

Quote :

"There is more physical contact in soccer than in baseball or basketball"

I dunno...you may or may not be right with that claim..in baseball there isnt a lot of contact but there can be some pretty nasty collisions at homeplate...in basketball you certainly have some hard fouls...in soccer you have a bunch of flopping nancies

5/2/2007 11:09:55 AM