Re: Wrestling = Nascar
 

I never said they/we simply don't like strategy. I was just saying North Americans prefer scoring to defense which makes it hard for your average fan to get into Soccer, which is a game based on exposing holes in the other defense.


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I'm not really disagreeing with you except for the fact that Soccer is a highly strategic game. Watching a game on TV doesn't do it justice because you can't see the whole field, meaning you can't see all of the players. It'd be like trying to grasp Football without seeing the TE's. You'd never understand their importance unless you could see the whole field in person - or even trying to understand how athletic an OF in baseball has to be if all you ever see is the hit, and the throw after the catch - and not the run to the catch/dive. you'd just assume those dudes are relatively always standing still.

And I never said baseball and Football don't have strategy. Every sport has strategy. And trying to argue the specific strategic value of each sport compared to each other sport is moot, because each sports' strategic element is 100% importantly valid within that sport. I thoroughly like both of those sports. It's not like I'm trying to say Soccer is better, or something else is worse. Soccer just doesn't get the credit it deserves. I'm putting in to get some brownie points with Soccer.

I'll also just say while Soccer is a really popular kids sport, it's for all the wrong reasons. It's because it's the cheapest and most easily accessible, plus it's a good way for parents to let their kids burn off all their energy. (Hell, that's how I got into it.) If you watch kids play Soccer it's actually funny. They just swarm the ball all game every game. You can't teach a 5-10 year old real Soccer strategy, because it's all "Stand here, wait. Cut off the angle. Sprint there, cut off the angle. Don't just kick the ball away, make a smart decision with it. Be creative. Don't panic." Little kids playing Soccer just want to run around after a little ball with their friends. Which is totally fine, and a good way to tire the hell out of your kids before night. We personally didn't get taught proper strategy (How to be patient, make your own, smart decisions) until the game started to get physical and highly competitive, which was around 14, which is when kids start quitting Soccer because it becomes a serious sport and they stop having fun playing it. Most people I knew back then quit because we had to actually learn strategies, and started getting actually 'coached' opposed to just led by someone's dad. Where as in hockey (for example) you're practically coached since you start as a little kid, and it's a sport you (If you're Canadian) watch so you already understand the subtleties of it. Same with American kids and Baseball/Football. The strategies of those games aren't just thrust on them when they reach highschool - they grow up playing those games semi-properly from day one. That's completely not really important, but I smoked a joint halfway up that paragraph and got carried away.


Obviously I agree. That's the very sad no-brainer of it.