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If there was any doubt remaining that soccer, as a spectator sport, sucks, the semifinals and finals of the World Cup dispelled that doubt.
Can you believe a world championship match in any sport where neither team scores a fucking goal in an hour and a half of trying? Un. Believable.
Reduce the size of the field by about 70% (75 meters x 50 meters), and play 4 15-minute quarters. Then it would be exciting to watch.
If there was any doubt remaining that soccer, as a spectator sport, sucks, the semifinals and finals of the World Cup dispelled that doubt.
Can you believe a world championship match in any sport where neither team scores a fucking goal in an hour and a half of trying? Un. Believable.
Reduce the size of the field by about 70% (75 meters x 50 meters), and play 4 15-minute quarters. Then it would be exciting to watch.
How to fix Soccer
Record the event.
Turn off your TV.
Retun at a later date to watch the 30 seconds that matter.
You misspelled 'basketball'.
It will still be Soccer but what needs to be changed NOW
1. The clock: Nobody cares how much time you have played. They care how much time is left. It is what makes sports exciting. Drop the additional injury time that nobody except the ref knows. Stop the clock when somebody goes down
2. Extra time: Every other sport understands sudden death. First goal wins...Period. In a 0-0 game at the end of regulation why allow the other team to tie it back up once a go head goal has been scored?
3. Penalty kicks to decide a game. You have just spent two hours where it is next to impossible to score. Why decide the game with a process where it is almost impossible not to score? Should tie basketball games be decided with free throws? Should tie football games be decided by bringing out the kickers to kick field goals?
Unfortunately for you, football is the biggest and most popular sport in the world. So the likelihood of football only being broadcast via the radio is nigh on impossible.How to fix Soccer
Don't go to the games.
Don't watch it on the TV.
Don't talk about it on the internets.
Make soccer fans just listen to it on the radio.
That should fix soccer.
Unfortunately for you, football is the biggest and most popular sport in the world. So the likelihood of football only being broadcast via the radio is nigh on impossible.How to fix Soccer
Don't go to the games.
Don't watch it on the TV.
Don't talk about it on the internets.
Make soccer fans just listen to it on the radio.
That should fix soccer.
If you don't like the game that is perfectly fine. Hating on the game says more about the person then the sport.
The hockie rings use to be different in the olympics than it is in the NHL. So we're basketball in Europe. Don't know if that's still true.As much as FIFA and the world soccer community want to tap-in to the ridiculously untapped potential that the US sports market presents, they are not going to compromise how the sport is played in order to do it.
See my responses below.
It will still be Soccer but what needs to be changed NOW
1. The clock: Nobody cares how much time you have played. They care how much time is left. It is what makes sports exciting. Drop the additional injury time that nobody except the ref knows. Stop the clock when somebody goes down
Not sure why this change would be needed. The same amount of drama has occurred at the end of a half with the timer counting up than counting down. Reversing this would have no effect on the "excitement" of the game. Stopping the clock means the elimination of stoppage time, which is where so much of the drama actually occurs. Removing it, removes a good deal of the excitement you're looking for.
2. Extra time: Every other sport understands sudden death. First goal wins...Period. In a 0-0 game at the end of regulation why allow the other team to tie it back up once a go head goal has been scored?
Soccer had sudden death once upon a time. It was called the "Golden Goal" and it was used last at the Euro 2004 competition. It was supposed to have increased a team's urge to play offensively and go for the winning goal. Instead, it had the opposite effect. Teams played much more defensively and were content to just play out the rest of extra time, waiting for penalties. FIFA saw this occurring far too much and scrapped the golden goal for the current format. I personally don't like penalties, but a better way to decide games in ET hasn't been found yet that wouldn't guarantee teams playing ugly.
3. Penalty kicks to decide a game. You have just spent two hours where it is next to impossible to score. Why decide the game with a process where it is almost impossible not to score? Should tie basketball games be decided with free throws? Should tie football games be decided by bringing out the kickers to kick field goals?
I don't disagree since i don't like penalties either, but a better way to decide a game has not been found. Penalties have the advantage of always deciding a winner and a loser. There are no draws, the bane of American sports fans' existence. There's no way to tactically effect the game during the penalty shootout phase. It's about nerves and luck.
MLS tried, in its early years, to "Americanize" soccer just as each of your points would do. It didn't go well and they rightly aligned themselves with the rest of the world in terms of the rules and how games get decided. The league reaped those benefits.
Yea. Like basketball! If you back up beyond half court that's a back court violation. Advance the ball for God sakes. Or turn it over.While soccer can't be fixed......after all it is still soccer
They could make an effort to make it not so dull
Soccer is played like chess. Not that it is tactical, but you play not to lose, not to try to win. Hours of kicking the ball from player to player without really trying to get at the goal
Three quarters of the world is wrong......soccer sucks