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IN 20 YEARS THE UNITED STATES WILL HAVE THE GREATEST FOOTBALL LEAGUE IN HISTORY

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Fat Bhoy Tim

Guest
MLS will be the best league in the world in 20 years time.
From the man who brought us
England 5 - 0 Scotland
Yah eggit !
 
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AJAX supporter

Guest
The MLS will get popular when they have some famous players, and I don't mean some Mexican player, Carlos Valderama or losers like Lothar Matthaus.
And by the way, the only reason why those old players are coming to MLS is for high salary, not to promote the game, cause the US will never like soccer much anyway.
 
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Ireland

Guest
I love the way the USA think there so good at sport, I only sport there good at are the games no other Country cares about, and when a team wins the Super Bowl they call them selfs World Chamions, NO THEY ARE NOT. Silly Silly people.
 
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partizan-bg

Guest
Hey Europeans, we all are forgetting one very important thing. Just imagine how American people watch football, or any other sport like basketball, hockey, etc. In one hand chips - in other hand coca-cola - and somewhere between hamburger. And which player would like to play there - no songs, no rockets, torches and NO SMOKE. Boring!
Yeah.
 
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Messiah

Guest
Money is an important factor but I believe that tradition is just as important. You can see that in France and Germany. They have very good teams and many of them also have a lot of money but the good players still go to Spain or Italy, not because of the money but because the teams there have a name.
 
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Neo_9

Guest
Why are u even discussing this REALLY Stupid topic...don't get - Sorry.
 
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Ireland

Guest
Its just not in there blood to injoy the game we do. I went to a game in the U.S and there was no singing or even anything close to it. It was CRAP. I would not go to football if i lived over there.
 
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jsbach

Guest
I disagree on the money issue. Most of the foreign players that are coming to MLS do not come for high salaries, because the salaries are NOT that high. Players like Valderrama and Matthaus come because after a lifetime of playing the sport they love surrounded by obsessed fans and cruel media criticism they see the MLS as a nice way to close out their career. They can play the game they love, while teaching it to some young players without being hunted down everytime they walk out the door.
 
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Valencia

Guest
I've seen a few MLS games. American soccer is basketball played with feet. There's a lot of running, kicking, long balls, fouls but seems like little forethought, build-up or coordination like you see in Holland, Italy, Spain, etc. It seems to me that if they are to develop as a footballing nation they will have to learn to appreciate the strengths of the good footballing countries. But with American distrust of the foreign, how can this happen? They'll develop the day names like Juventus and Bayern Munich become house-hold names in America, like they are in the rest of the world. But that seems a long way off.
 
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I.n S

Reserve Team
Well if this happens I will be sick. But I doubt it would and if it did then it would not realy be american because it would have players from all arownd the world in it. Plus I don't think players like Beckham etc would go to America. They are not that stupid
 
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onlywiseman

Guest
Maybe... Gazza is comming. And this might be beginning.
By the way, there used to be some very good players in the 70's like pele, beckenbauer, and eusebio in the USA. The americans can buy every player if they want to.
Nowadays, the parents are more in favor in football(soccer) than the american football because of less probability of injury. And there are more real american fans of MLS than some years ago. They might invest more money to bring every players in the world in some years as they did in 70's.

However, the bad premonition of the US soccer is that the Americans like Women soccer than men's. What a shame!
 
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GOONERBHOY

Guest
The reason that the MLS won`t make it is not anything to do with quality it`s because you`ll see Football, soccer sorry as simpily a sport where to the Majority of the football world, it is LIFE!!!

CELTIC FC 4 LIFE!!!
 
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jsbach

Guest
Then the majority of the world is missing out on a lot of life.
 
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Edoardo

Guest
football is indeed a way of life...this doesnt mean that your not going to do other things it just means its the #1 priority...in the u.s kids only play the sport that is on tv,when a season for one sport ends they will play the sport wich season just begun so they will switch from basketball to baseball just like that no real passion there .In the rest of the world football is played every day year round non stop.I even heard a story about some polish prisoners during world war 2 that would play football in jail!!! they even had their own league going in there talk about passion and a way of life!!! That is why "soccer" will never be football !!!
 
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jsbach

Guest
Then all I can say is it must feel really terrible when teams like Brazil, Germany, England, etc. have lost to those mere hobbyists from the USA. I mean, the USA shouldn't even come close, considering for the rest of the world it is "life."

BTW, I find it interesting, Goonerbhoy, that someone writing from Australia would see the world that way, being that soccer, as I believe it is also called there down under, is not exactly the national pastime.
 
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Edoardo

Guest
Your damn right on that !!! the team will be critisised for months in various newspapers, radiosatations, tv, and in any place fans gather to discuss footy be it a pub or a bus stop..the coach gets it the worst then players that made mistakes.footy can be a cruel game ,one day your a national hero the next your public enemy #1.can you immagine what would have happened if England would have lost to Scotland by a larger margine and been left out the Eurocup....the coach would have had to been escorted out of the stadium by a fully armed swat team...when you see international footy why do you think they have armed soldiers instead of policemen or security guards...in the u.s bruce arena can put any one in the national team and no one would care any where else even in under developed third world countries this becomes public concern...when sampson left john harks out the team before world cup 98 no one seemed to care,even that he was left out in favor of foreign players barely three day u.s citysens who couldnt have the same pride in wearing the u.s national shirt...why do you think Romario was left out the world cup in France with two days remaining for their opening game instead of leaving him out in Brazil before they went to france...It is many details like these that keep the u.s soccer from becoming football,and your fans from seeing it for more than just another sport.

[This message has been edited by Edoardo (edited 12-04-1999).]
 
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Goodsport

Guest
Armed guards?!? Death threats (I know you didn't say that, but I've heard cases of that around the world)?!? Suicides over team's losses (again, something I've heard, not something you said)?!?

Thank GOD that Americans don't have THAT much passion... I hope that it NEVER comes to that here!!! As much as I love the game, it's JUST A GAME! I would NOT be willing to threaten or hurt other HUMAN BEINGS (YES, that's what other coaches, players and fans are, after all) over A GAME (or for ANY reason, for that matter)!!!


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[This message has been edited by Goodsport (edited 12-04-1999).]
 
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