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@SohrabAhmari Every sport has games that are dull for neutrals. If you’re Swiss or Argentine it’s a nail biter.

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@nypost When it was an actual Italian immigrant enclave there was probably a fair amount of marxists, anarchists, socialists, communists, etc…

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@mehdirhasan It’s hard to express what Baggio meant to me as a kid. He was fundamentally an artist with the ball and seeing him succeed made the world feel right.
Seeing him fail was tragedy.

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@PaulSpacey @_BigBert_1 We have 60 million Latinos in country. Let’s say 40 million are devoted to soccer. Thats more people than Norway, Belgium, Uruguay, the Netherlands, and close to Argentina and England. We’re clearly not developing that human resource…

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@discusingMovies @Footballtweet First Walt Whitman reference I’ve seen in a football post! Well done.

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@PepAiello @footballitalia Yes, it was a psychological failure not a lack of talent that lead to that defeat.

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@CoachPapaJohn They’re saying that the apparatus to create skills aquisition doesn’t exist. If it did we would already produce world class players. You don’t need future slot receivers to choose soccer, just an actual proper soccer culture and everything that goes with it. Stop fantasizing.

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@boldpath It was! The game lived in the streets and the environment molded the player.

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@boldpath I should add that the groups were usually a mix of ages so younger kids benefitted from playing with older kids. I’m not sure how that can be reproduced in the US today unless it exists in Hispanic neighborhoods.

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@KyleMcCordMuse When your argument is driven my neurotic insecurity or irrational exceptionalism, you eventually end up proving yourself wrong better than anyone else could.

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@AlbertsideB Exactly. There are thousands of athletes like their fabled “slot receivers” in Europe, S. America, and Africa that didn’t make it as an elite footballers for a variety of complex reasons.

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@ademir2z True but I would add that we would need a street soccer culture as well. Every major footballing nation has working class kids playing in the streets and parks and piazzas. I believe there is a qualitatively leap that happens when kids get that many free play touches.

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@JeshPeep @carebearkieran Exactly. It’s dumb and glib and cheap. Thanks for finally agreeing. By the way, the 25 or even 10 percent of Americans that think it’s cool is still way more people than 100% of Belgians.

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@clairlemon I love the variety of idiotic takes that come out about soccer every four years. It’s impressively stupid.

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@noah_reem1 @alt911theories Olympic sprinter = fast twitch muscle. Moving side to side well with a ball is different from moving side to side. It’s the smoothness and balance of the motion that separates great soccer players.

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@PaulSpacey @Bkumar18 You have a lot of patience to respond to these kinds of comments.

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@Chilly__J @ShehanJeyarajah It’s not the jogging. It’s everything in between that kills you: sprints, changes of pace, changes of direction, jumping, physical battles, sliding, twisting, contorting your body to control the ball, shooting and passing, just dribbling the ball in different directions.

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@JeshPeep @carebearkieran “That shit isn’t cool here” in no way literally says what I’m saying about culture, infrastructure, institutions, experience, mentality, programs etc… fyi, it is cool amongst many millions in the US. More than the entire population of Belgium. Not enough.

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@SohrabAhmari You don’t remember their being injustice and contraversey before VAR? In Italy half the post game would be violent debates about referee decisions…