>I see soccer much the same as I saw volleyball. Every four years, if the US had a reasonable team in the Olympics, there would be a spurt of interest. The interest would then die down until the next go-round.
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>Every four years there will be a renewed American interest in the World Cup if the US has a reasonable chance of advancing. The sport will pick up a few new adherents and will return to minor status until the next go-round.
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>The coach of a traveling youth team explained to me why soccer will never be anything more than a niche spectator sport in the US.
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>"Americans will never accept a sport where the phrase 'An insurmoutnable one goal lead' has a reasonable chance of being true"
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I have a perfect solution for making soccer accepted by US sports fans. Just change the point system as the following:
4 points for 0 goals
9 points for each goal -- Plus:
14 points for a goal from outside the penalty box
19 points for a goal from inside of the penalty box.
23 points for a header
And of course, some additional points for good acting.
I got it all figured out.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
