Hahaha yep, Feno again.
Good quote,
"Live soccer, eat soccer, DREAM SOCCER."
Here is my prediction.
I think is unrealistic to think soccer is going to bring down FootballAmericano, just because "Football" represents what America is all about. I personally don't think soccer would have any problem with Basketball, since Beisball and Hockey can't never compete with soccer.
America is all about kicking butts. "Football" is the sport of the strong "American" men, which is cool, I even find Footbal kind of interesting, not gone say is better than soccer, but is definatelly the best way to represent the United States of America.
Well if football is the sport of the "strong" Americano man, then soccer (I'll rather call it futbol) is the sport of the "SMART" Americano men. Yep, got to have some intelligence to play futbol. Smart enough to play strong, skillful and technical, smart snough to compete with a pretty boy from the west, with a strong man from the east, witn an arrogant Argentinian, with an skillful southamerican, with an stylish brazilian, with an "athletic" European, with a tricky Centralamericano, with those fast Africans and Chinese dudes, with a bad-as streeballer, and with the average men. Yep I have played with all those kinds of "footballers."
Here are some facts that would back up my theory.
Soccer - Football- Futbol - as it is known in Europe and other countries OTHER THAN NORTH AMERICA, is played on every continent.
FIFA (The Federation of World Football) counts 204 member countries.
Soccer is a bigger, A BIGGER SPORT THAN BASKETBALL, BASEBALL, AND FOOTBALL (NORTH AMERICAN) COMBINED.
Organized soccer was born in Britain. England and Scotland being co-founders of the beautiful game. BUT LATINOS TOOK IT TO A DIFFERENT LEVEL.
The World's First Football Club - Sheffield Football Club - was founded in 1857 by Colonel Nathaniel Cresswick and Major William Priest, two British Army officers.
The most prestigious football club is Real Madrid from Madrid, Spain.
According to one of the of the most important British magazines the match River-Boca is one of the most exciting events in the planet, one of the events you should experience before you die!
According to Barcelona's President Johan Laporta, they have enough fans to pack 3 stadiums for the Madrid-Barca battle!
The World Cup is the biggest soccer tournament in the world. It is held every four years in a different country. Billions of people watch the televised games as the national teams from countries around the globe battle it out for soccer supremacy.
The 2002 World Cup was held in two places—Seoul, South Korea and Tokyo, Japan. Brazil won the 2002 World Cup and also has won the most World Cups (five) since the tournament began in 1930.
Gerd Müller, who played for West Germany in the 1970 and 1974 World Cups, holds the career record for most World Cup goals with 14.
The United States' Major League Soccer made its debut in 1996, shortly after the wildly successful 1994 World Cup was hosted by the United States.
Brazilian striker Ronaldo was named the Most Valuable Player of the 1998 World Cup, even though his team lost in the championship game to France. THe has also been named World Player of the Year three times.
In 2002, Germany's Oliver Kahn became the first goalkeeper to win the Most Valuable Player of the World Cup.
The 2002 World Cup of soccer was the planet's largest sporting event. More than one billion people followed the month-long soccer tournament between the world's top 32 soccer powers. It's the first one played in Asia and the first one hosted by two countries - Korea and Japan.
Maradona's goal againts England is considered the greatest goal of the history of soccer world cups.
Crowd Pleasers
The largest crowd to watch a World Cup soccer game live are the 199,850 people who crammed into a stadium in Brazil for a game between Brazil and Uruguay during the 1950 World Cup.
Largest Soccer Tournament
No less than 5,098 teams competed in 1999 for the second Bangkok League Seven-a-Side Competition. Over 35,000 players involved!
Soccer is the fastest growing and most popular sport in the world.
"Football the sport of the strong American man, soccer the sport of the smart Americano men."
Alrite dudes, peace out.
