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Originally Posted by blgoblue2
Soccer is a sport. It takes talent, I can understand that. When I someone doing all the tricks with a ball I'm impressed. But I don't care if the rest of the world likes it, its boring to watch. People can say the same thing about 2-1 Hockey games but they are exciting because there are scoring chances.
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I think if you're brought up on sports where this is more scoring then of course you're not going to like soccer, that's fair enough.
I think the NASL is a major cause though for soccer to be so far behind the other four. They brought in all these foreign stars at the end of their career to play, but once they'd gone, they hadn't brought any American star soccer players through, and so people just didn't want to turn up to see a load of junk American players.
If they had done the league then, like the MLS has done now, especially as the amount of TV coverage of other sports then was much less than it is now, I feel that soccer would have had a much better chance of gaining a much bigger foothold on the American psyche than it does now.
