I've lived in 7 different major US cities throughout my life and have visited 48 states at one point or another on business. I meet thousands of different people a year and usually break the ice with small talk about sports. Out of all the people I've met in this country over the years, literally one individual gave two shits about soccer in any capacity. He claimed to be an Arsenal fan. I don't know who these American proxies are that are trying to shill the sport on this board, but it's egregiously disingenuous. If these posters are for real, at the very least, they are non-existent in the business sector (i.e. people who actually have and spend money).
The fact is, soccer has and will always remain an activity for children in this country, a reason for mothers to get out of the house and gossip with each other while the kids play a non-contact game chasing a ball around. Youth soccer season runs almost year round, so it has that advantage over other youth sports. Once kids are old enough, though, they almost without exception drop it to focus more intently on our adult sports. This post isn't meant to trigger soccer fans into replying to it, whether you're really from America, or some international fan reading this. It's just the way it is there. The more you know.
manhattan brooklyn queens the bronx staten island seattle chicago
Elijah Morales
>using a prox while bitch crying about prox
Lol Pedro plz stahp
Matthew Rodriguez
LA NYC Chicago Dallas Denver Miami Houston San Fran Boston
Nolan Turner
Literally all of those are just neighborhoods in the same city except Seattle which isn't relevant and Chicago which is 2nd most important to NYC
Ayden Thompson
>Houston Not anymore. RIP
Justin Turner
You forgot Wilmington, Delaware
Xavier Fisher
>someone actually spent time writing this
Zachary Thompson
>all these newfags
Bentley Sullivan
>Denver
Cooper Carter
3.4 million in the greater metro area, mong
Leo Morales
LA NYC Chicago Dallas Philadelphia Boston Seattle
James Richardson
Gotham Hollywood Ramstein Detroit Washington DC Washington Marvel Bismarck
Jonathan Hernandez
Yeah and none of them have been nuked
Ryan Garcia
>no Metropolis Gothamfags are truly cancer.
Grayson Jackson
heh nice copypasta friendo
Luke Cruz
5 of those are borough ts in New York The borough system is actually completely useless they're just different counties with their own courthouse. They don't have any different rules
Ryan Lee
Wilmington? Not even Delaware people are about Wilmington
Carter Stewart
>Gotham Doesn't exist >Hollywood Nickname for LA >Detroit Hasn't been major since the 50s due to the demecroats >Washington DC Not that big only major because it's the capital >ramstein ??? >Washington marvel ??? >Bismarck That's not even the most major city in North Dakota
Luke Ross
itt: retards
Lucas Hall
Can confirm this Every suburban American has played soccer at least once in their life as part of a league Sometimes they do it until they go to high school, in which they join the highshcool team. Once they graduate they don't play ever again because they always hated soccer they just did it so they wouldn't sit on their asses all day
The fact is gen x and older millennial are actually shitty parents. Them and their friends register their kids to do 17 different sports in 17 different leagues so their kids can always be kept occupied and away from them, and so they can talk to each other. Soccer is just their favorite because in America it pushes liberal values and you're less likely to get hurt than in most other sports >swimming My kid could drown! >football/lacrosse My kid could get a concussion! >hockey My kid would get into a fight! >basketball My kid could hurt his knee on a hard court! >baseball My kid could get hurt sliding >tennis My kid could hit over the fence he's so good! >golf My kid is using a heavy club he's so good! >soccer My kid wears 16 different pads and when he falls he's on soft grass and the kid who pushed him get some kicked off the league! Also my kid almost scored once 6 weeks ago he's good!
There's also the suburban mom who registers their kid in their favorite sport than whenever their kid is touched that's some sort of crime and the other team is always doing something wrong
Chase Carter
Theres no money in playing soccer professionally in the US.
Parker Moore
>because in America it pushes liberal values This I can see with the sport not having the same working class scum background as it does here. inb4 butthurt replies, I'm working class scum myself.
>and you're less likely to get hurt than in most other sports This however makes me question the way football/soccer is played in America. There were always guys coming to school with crutches because they fucked their tendons, or ligaments during traing or on the weekend, with winter being the season of broken legs because that's when we trained indoors and had indoor tounraments.
Levi Gutierrez
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Noah Bell
(Cont.) a lot of kids who were forced to do a million sports become really lazy in high school or college, because either they finally have the chance to relax, or because they've been forced to do sports for so long that they now resent sports altogether.
In my high school, everyone I knew played sports in a private league until high school. About half of those people never played or watched sports ever again. Another half of that half played sports because they didn't want to sit on their ass but either hates sports all together or just hated the sport they played. It mostly happened with soccer and tennis
Matthew Cox
You know what is the deal with Sup Forums? Hate for patterns. People here are devoted to find patterns and cliche and hate them. But what happens when the cliche hate itself becomes another cliche? Anons hate them too. This is the difference between Sup Forums and Reddit. Whereas Reddit relies comfortably on hate cliches, Sup Forums want its hate stuff to remain fresh and new, not a way to fit in. This is the origin of pastas like this one up here (which you Redditors didn't recognize): a test to identify if people are capable of identifying Reddit-tier repetition. The tragedy of it all is that unless you only visit the same threads again and again (and have a lot of free time), you won't have the whole discussion history stored in your mind and you will end up failing one or another test, being deemed as Reddit. So, in the end, Reddit is an ever present menace we try to avoid, the meaning that makes comunication possible, a cry for freedom bound to fail.
Logan Roberts
>Birmingham lel even the twin across the pond is a shithole.
Justin Collins
Well, in American soccer is liberal because it has to do with anti-Vietnam hippies deciding it was fun to play because it wasn't a real American sport. Soccer in America was founded on liberal beliefs from those hippies. That's why the USMNT wore gay pride shirts to training one day
In America soccer isn't taken as seriously as in Europe, so you're less likely to get injured. I know plenty of guys who've been Injured from baseball, basketball, swimming, football, wrestling, weightlifting, and even tennis, but I've only met one guy with a soccer injury. I'm America, high schools train like Sunday league teams
Elijah Lewis
Is this good pasta? I didn't bother to read it to be honest
Daniel Adams
Tl;dr Suburban moms once their kids to play sports so they don't have to see them and so they can talk to their friends. This forced a lot of kids to hate sports when they get older
Suburban moms prefer soccer because it's liberal and it's safer than most other team sports
Colton Sanders
In my experience people are more likely to be into soccer in the finance sector for whatever reason (I'm American). I bet if you compared the average income of soccer fans in USA to other sports, you'd find it to be higher.
I've noticed that all the soccer fans where I live are either South American immigrants(who usually follow real or Barça), Italians who try to be more Italian than they are(who usually follow Juventus or Milan), and millennial hipsters(how usually follow mls)
Aiden Richardson
Yeah, when I went to college, my friends and I watched a lot of EPL and most us had played soccer at one time or another, which must have given me the wrong impression.
Adrian Foster
But baseball is the safest sport for kids. It's even a selling point of little leagues
Henry Moore
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100% correct
Benjamin Green
New York, Los Angeles, Texas, New England, Miami, Canada and Indianapolis 500.
Camden Gomez
Tee ball is the safest. It could be because I live in a huge baseball city, but I know a lot of people who've gotten baseball injuries. People break bones from sliding onto another base all the time. They get hit by pitches all the time and sometimes they get put into concussions from that
Grayson Perez
Attractive people in the USA follow soccer. Ugly people follow American sports. You're probably not hot enough to break ice with anyone attractive
Oliver Davis
What? I look like a fucking monkey and I love soccer
Metro areas are what comes to mind when people talk about any city, not just the central municipality.
For example, the City of Los Angeles covers maybe 1/3 of the area & population of the urban agglomeration that people refer to as LA. And the borders are artificial. They could decide tomorrow to shrink the Los Angeles proper to only cover downtown LA, and divide the rest of it into small municipalities. But "Los Angeles" as people understand it would not have changed in size at all, obviously.
It's the urban agglomeration that matters, not political units.
Cameron Cooper
There are probably stories about people being hurt playing baseball, yes. But saying football is the safest sport is wrong. It fucks up your knees pretty bad
Sebastian Evans
> Philly > Seattle > major Kek
Aaron Nelson
>borough system is useless k, person from a city that could fit into queens the bigger the area/population the more it needs to be split into jurisdictions for general ease
Jose Rogers
>they've been forced to do sports for so long that they now resent sports altogether.
Fucking this. I was forced into youth soccer, tennis lessons, youth baseball, and then was told I had to pick up a sport while I was in middle and high school. I ran cross country in middle and played Tennis in high school. My senior year of HS I told my parents I’m not fucking do this anymore so I could have better grades for college and they finally agreed. I’ll never play pickup anything again. Fuck playing sports, watching is infinitely more fun.
Owen Powell
I'm surprised no one recognized this pasta.
American power hours are the worst.
Daniel Price
MLS players make less than Championship players, Bundesliga 2 players, and Liga MX
