USA Soccer

Anybody watch them play to Porteguel -
they let a goal in with 3 minutes to go -
man - that was a drag - so it ended with a tie score -

That last second Portuguese goal was just out of the world, Ronaldo did a classic set up.

Well, over for the US soccer team.

You know that soccer was originally played with a pig's bladder? No wonder you don't use your hands.

lol FOOTBALL is meant to be played with legs, not hands!


But the Belgium-USA Roound 16 match is one of the greatest game played, really a thriller.

MoonChild wrote:

lol FOOTBALL is meant to be played with legs, not hands!

Of course, who would want to put their bare hands on a pig's bladder.  

true that!

MoonChild wrote:

lol FOOTBALL is meant to be played with legs, not hands!

The use of the word "football" was originally to separate ball games played on foot from games played on horseback. Back in the day all the prestigious sports were done while mounted on a horse.

That's why there's so many different games called "football". Aussie rules, rugby rules, association rules (soccer), american rules, gaelic rules... the only one that bans hands and that is not full contact is soccer.

I was listening to sports talk on the radio today and they were discussing the popularity of soccer in the US/North America and that a lot of the teams are drawing in capacity crowds. So I looked up the numbers and I gotta say, I was surprised. The Seattle Sounders are at over 100% capacity and draw in close to 41,000 people per game, almost twice as many as the Seattle Mariners do. Philadelphia, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Jose, Kansas City, Toronto, and Vancouver are at or over 100% capacity. Sure, most of the stadiums seat about 20,000 or so people at full capacity and they only play about 16 games at home, but I think the statistics say a lot about soccer here in North America.