Futebol Futebol é um esporte socialista

[Lowko é Powko]

Pra quem entende inglês, vai aí uma pira. O plano de Barack Osama Homo Bin Laden de transformar os EUA em um país socialista.

Fico pensando que essas paradas não podem ser reais.

Soccer Is a Socialist Sport

Marc Thiessen | June 30, 2010, 11:52 am

In the Washington Post this morning, sports columnist Sally Jenkins complains about the lack of popular outrage over America’s elimination in the World Cup: “Why is it that Americans expect to win in every sport we compete in except for soccer? How is it that a nation so obsessed with games seems abnormally lacking in ambition when it comes to the most popular one on the globe?” Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York, is shutting its doors. According to the Journal, the place never had more than 17,000 visitors a year, and “the hall’s passing seems to have gone almost unnoticed. The local newspaper barely covered its demise.”

The world is crazy for soccer, but most Americans don’t give a hoot about the sport. Why? Many years ago, my former White House colleague Bill McGurn pointed out to me the real reason soccer hasn’t caught on in the good old U.S.A. It’s simple, really: Soccer is a socialist sport.

Think about it. Soccer is the only sport in the world where you cannot use the one tool that distinguishes man from beast: opposable thumbs. “No hands” is a rule only a European statist could love. (In fact, with the web of high taxes and regulations that tie the hands of European entrepreneurs, “no hands” kind of describes their economic theories as well.)

Soccer is also the only sport in the world that has “hooligans”—proletarian mobs that trash private property whenever their team loses.

Soccer is collectivist. At this year’s World Cup, the French national team actually went on strike in the middle of the tournament on the eve of an elimination match. (Yes, capitalist sports have experienced labor disputes, but can you imagine a Major League Baseball team going on strike in the middle of the World Series?)

At the youth level, soccer teams don’t even keep score and everyone gets a participation trophy. Can you say, “From each according to his ability…”? (The fact that they do keep score later on is the only thing that prevents soccer from being a Communist sport.)

Capitalist sports are exciting—people often hit each other, sometimes even score. Soccer fans are excited by an egalitarian 0-0 tie. When soccer powerhouses Brazil and Portugal met recently at the World Cup, they played for 90 minutes—and combined got just eight shots on net (and zero goals). Contrast this with the most exciting sports moment last week, which came not at the World Cup, but at Wimbledon, when American John Isner won in a fifth-set victory that went 70-68. Yes, even tennis is more exciting than soccer. Like an overcast day in East Berlin, soccer is … boring.

And finally, have you seen the World Cup trophy? It looks like an Emmy Award (and everyone knows that Hollywood is socialist).

There are many more reasons soccer and socialism go hand in hand. You can read some of them here. Perhaps in the age of President Obama, soccer will finally catch on in America. But I suspect that socializing Americans’ taste in sports may be a tougher task than socializing our healthcare system.

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"Why in the name of our Lord and Savior who was killed by the Jews so we could have ever lasting life, is America in some soccer tournament? Why? Because it's all part of Barak Osama Homo bin Laden's plot to install socialism on our shores."

[Visitante João Gilberto]

Direita dos EUA diz que futebol é 'coisa de comunista'

[-Demolidor-]

Falar da resposta eles não falam né?

SOCCER IS A REPUBLICAN SPORT

by ADAM ROY on JULY 8, 2010

Photo: Shine 2010

A Washington Post columnist is in the news after calling soccer a “socialist sport.” Adam Roy says he got it all wrong.

Writing on the American Enterprise Institute’s blog last week, Marc Thiessen said that “most Americans don’t give a hoot” about soccer, and contrasted it with “capitalist” sports like American football.

Thiessen, a former speechwriter for the Bush White House, also criticized the French team for their pregame strike, and pointed to soccer’s relatively low scores as evidence that the sport stifled competition.

I heard about Thiessen’s article on the radio today, and was immediately puzzled. My problem with Thiessen isn’t that he has obviously never watched or played soccer (one of his main objections is that players can’t use their hands), or that his post is a thinly-veiled dig at healthcare reform.

But he has it backwards: soccer isn’t a socialist sport. If anything, it’s a Republican sport: the game and its culture fit the GOP’s ideology perfectly. Here’s my reasoning:

It’s capitalist.

Soccer is nothing if not capitalist. The game is so laissez-faire that it makes our sports look borderline Marxist.

American sports leagues have all sorts of pesky salary cap regulations that dictate how much teams can pay players. No so in most soccer leagues, where teams are pretty much free to do whatever they want with their money. That’s why Cristiano Ronaldo took home $17.7 million this year, a bigger salary than that of LeBron James.

It could also be why the world’s richest sports team is a soccer club, England’s Manchester United. According to Forbes, the club’s net worth last year was $1.87 billion.

If you want firsthand evidence of soccer’s marketability, go find a busy street corner, park yourself there, and take a look at the torsos of the young people walking by. At least a few will probably be wearing jerseys from foreign soccer clubs, especially English Premier League teams like Chelsea, Manchester United, and Liverpool. EPL clubs make millions of dollars selling merchandise, and Americans are among those buying.

Photo: makelessnoise

There’s no government intervention.

Small government is a classic Republican value, but it doesn’t extend to American sports. It seems that every time there’s a controversy in an American sports league, the federal government steps in. Congress has called hearings on steroids in MLB, concussions in the NFL, and pensions in the NBA.

Soccer is governed by FIFA, a private, for-profit corporation with zero tolerance for government involvement in sport. The group recently threatened to suspend France and Nigeria after their presidents announced plans to investigate the countries’ poor performances in the World Cup.

It’s nationalist.

Thiessen characterizes soccer hooligan firms as “proletarian mobs”. In reality, their politics are usually right-wing, often extremely so.

English hooligans like Chelsea’s Headhunters are notorious for their ties to far-right fringe groups like the British National Party. They’ve also been tied to the English Defence League, an organization that’s taken the same anti-Islam stance that conservative groups like the David Horowitz Freedom Center have in the US.

Soccer leagues aren’t centrally controlled.

American sports leagues operate on a franchise system, in which all teams fall under the authority of a central commissioner. New teams can’t join without this central governing body’s approval. American leagues are also closed systems, so teams remain members no matter how poorly they perform. Seems like a pretty Soviet system to me.

Soccer leagues differ in that they have an open structure: clubs are independent entities, and anyone can start one. At the end of each season, the best clubs in each division get bumped up to the next league, so the teams that perform well get rewarded. As a system, it encourages entrepreneurship and good, old-fashioned hard work, rather than artificially protecting a select few.

There are no unnecessary rules.

With the possible exception of basketball, American sports are a mess of rules. There are rules that govern when one team has to turn over the ball to the other, who can pass the ball and where they can pass it, and how players are allowed to celebrate when they score. Add in instant replay, and games can slog on like a Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

Soccer can be summed up in about four rules: no hands, no body tackles, don’t go offsides, stay in bounds. There’s no unnecessary regulations, so any average Joe the Plumber can understand the game.

[John the Baptist.]

"Soccer is nothing if not capitalist. The game is so laissez-faire that it makes our sports look borderline Marxist."

Hahahaha

Gostei da resposta.

[Lowko é Powko]

Falar da resposta eles não falam né?

Muito bom esse texto de resposta.

[bks]

O texto de resposta foi sensacional hahahah.

[guaipeca55]

Cara, esse talvez tenha sido um dos piores textos que eu já li na minha vida, graças a Deus um cara fez uma resposta decente e enfiou guela abaixo desse cara que claramente tem retardo mental e escreve pro WASHINGTON POST.

[Athaíde]

Coulter: Any growing interest in soccer a sign of nation's moral decay

I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade — or about the length of the average soccer game — so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

• Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls — all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.

In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."

Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.

• Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

• No other "sport" ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: "2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0." Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: "1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0." If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he'd still be alive, although bored.

Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties — and it's a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.

• The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.

Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game — and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.

• You can't use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here's a great idea: Let's create a game where you're not allowed to use them!

• I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.

I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.

• It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.

• Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.

Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

• Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear — again about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."

The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)

Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.

Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.

If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist. Contact her through her website at www.anncoulter.com.

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/06/25/coulter-growing-interest-soccer-sign-nations-moral-decay/11372137/

[John the Baptist.]

Caralho, que mina idiota e xenófoba.

O texto todo é uma bosta, mas NESSA parte de baixo, ela se supera:

"In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised."

HAHAHAHAHA

É doença mental escrever uma coisa dessas, só pode.

[GNozaki]

Ann Coulter -> lixo total, do tipo que Will McAvoy limparia o chão com ela. Se bobear é mais um artigo pra ganhar atenção e os imbecis que concordam com ela concordarem.

There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised

Não era assim no futebolzinho de rua hahahahaha

[SilveiraGOD.]

Caralho, o primeiro texto é um lixo escrito por alguém que não tem nada pra fazer e não gosta de futebol porque o time do seu país não consegue ganhar. O republicano eu gostei.

[Matheuѕ]

Essa Ann Coulter precisa de uma piroca urgentemente.

[guaipeca55]

Total lixo esse texto cara AHAH TOTAL. Pior é saber que se tá tendo mídia é pq tem gente que concorda AHHA Provavelmente algum texano burro comedor de irmã enquanto toma bud light e dá tiros pra cima AHAH Sim, eu usei estereótipos, mas vai se foder, se eles acham que somos macacos por querermos chutar uma bola e não pegar com a mão, vai se foder, eu posso também.

AHAHHAH Ela é muito tosca, curtam ae, nem dá de dar bola pra isso.

[guaipeca55]

AHAHHAH Ela é muito tosca, curtam ae, nem dá de dar bola pra isso.

[MarkuZ]

Sobre o texto da Ann(ta) Coulter: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/ann-coulter-is-right-to-fear-the-world-cup/373680/

[Lowko é Powko]

Tanto o texto quantos os links que ele trás são muito bons.