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wicka posted:few things in american soccer are a more active impediment to the sport's popularity than these godawful supporters groups
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wicka posted:few things in american soccer are a more active impediment to the sport's popularity than these godawful supporters groups How so?
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May 20, 2016 20:55
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Portland humans, we are here Respect your people who identify as female, drink your gluten-free beer
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May 20, 2016 20:58
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African AIDS cum posted:http://www.oregonlive.com/timbers/index.ssf/2016/05/portland_timbers_fans_say_timb.html#incart_big-photo Shut it down. This thread has peaked.
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May 20, 2016 21:01
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Bobby Digital posted:Portland humans, we are here Nice gluten free beer theft.
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May 20, 2016 21:08
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Gigi Galli posted:Nice gluten free beer theft. Portland humans, we are here Respect your people who identify as female, exchange Bitcoin for your gluten-free beer
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May 20, 2016 21:13
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jyrka posted:How so? they spend more time supporting themselves than the club, they constantly get into overly dramatic pissing matches among themselves (see above) and other supporters groups, they sing horribly cringeworthy songs that feel like someone wrote fan fiction about european football, etc. the terrible truth is that silly poo poo you just read about in portland is not at all unique.
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May 20, 2016 21:15
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wicka posted:they spend more time supporting themselves than the club, they constantly get into overly dramatic pissing matches among themselves (see above) and other supporters groups, they sing horribly cringeworthy songs that feel like someone wrote fan fiction about european football, etc. the terrible truth is that silly poo poo you just read about in portland is not at all unique. This is all true, and while they are widespread they still represent a small percentage of soccer fans in North America.
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May 20, 2016 21:17
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wicka posted:few things in american soccer are a more active impediment to the sport's popularity than these godawful supporters groups "nods" wicka posted:they spend more time supporting themselves than the club, they constantly get into overly dramatic pissing matches among themselves (see above) and other supporters groups, they sing horribly cringeworthy songs that feel like someone wrote fan fiction about european football, etc. the terrible truth is that silly poo poo you just read about in portland is not at all unique. *nods* Suqit posted:This is all true, and while they are widespread they still represent a small percentage of soccer fans in North America. For now.
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wicka posted:they spend more time supporting themselves than the club, they constantly get into overly dramatic pissing matches among themselves (see above) and other supporters groups, they sing horribly cringeworthy songs that feel like someone wrote fan fiction about european football, etc. the terrible truth is that silly poo poo you just read about in portland is not at all unique. that, and they have to be "inclusive" which means no swearing or fun (though this may be more of a league rule, i dunno)
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May 20, 2016 21:44
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wicka posted:they spend more time supporting themselves than the club, they constantly get into overly dramatic pissing matches among themselves (see above) and other supporters groups, they sing horribly cringeworthy songs that feel like someone wrote fan fiction about european football, etc. the terrible truth is that silly poo poo you just read about in portland is not at all unique. To be fair, the bolded part is the same in all of the Americas, just with more beatings and stabbings outside of the US
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May 20, 2016 22:06
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Simone Poodoin posted:To be fair, the bolded part is the same in all of the Americas, just with more beatings and stabbings outside of the US In the US they just yell at each other on Twitter or Reddit or make a Mario tifo about it.
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I wish the MLS almost tried to emulate English football culture better. Gimme more "Portland FC" and "New England United" (as cringey as they are) and proper hooliganism with the stabbings and eventual crackdown.
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Sandwolf posted:I wish the MLS almost tried to emulate English football culture better. Gimme more "Portland FC" and "New England United" (as cringey as they are) and proper hooliganism with the stabbings and eventual crackdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dAWJ6Ex_Kw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9pFluj1u-Y
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Iniesta posted:The fans deserve a big celebration, they suffer a lot."
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straight up brolic posted:reminder that this is what that looks like lmao  would there be some savage beatdowns of supporters group snowflakes.wicka posted:they spend more time supporting themselves than the club, they constantly get into overly dramatic pissing matches among themselves (see above) and other supporters groups, they sing horribly cringeworthy songs that feel like someone wrote fan fiction about european football, etc. the terrible truth is that silly poo poo you just read about in portland is not at all unique. It's like that "Southern Legion" supporters group in Miami. There's a D2 team in Miami, and another D2 team in Fort Lauderdale. Do they go to these games? No, you see, because having to attend "minor league soccer" is beneath their aesthetic sensibilities and they will not attend attend games in person until MLS comes and gives it to them in their own stadium with their own section and who knows maybe they get their own brand of beer and free plane tickets and a YouTube series. It's literally a supporters group that doesn't cheer for any teams because they want someone to bring a team that they feel is at their level. And the worst part is that these are the people that get put on a pedestal as if they're the ones everyone needs to emulate. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 10:27 on May 21, 2016 |
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Sandwolf posted:I wish the MLS almost tried to emulate English football culture better. Gimme more "Portland FC" and "New England United" (as cringey as they are) and proper hooliganism with the stabbings and eventual crackdown. Not possible without the away fan culture I forgot to mention that me and my friend heard that 'steal your women' line at the Timbers game and thought it was ridiculous, and even then it was almost being sung apologetically
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May 21, 2016 04:07
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They should get their Timbers Army cheerleaders to shout "trigger warning" before every European style rooting chant
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Butterfly Valley posted:They should get their Timbers Army cheerleaders to shout "trigger warning" before every European style rooting chant WAR-NING *clap**clap**clapclapclap*
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rename this thread objects to be shagged, possessions to be conquered, "babes" to be ogled
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Crazy Ted posted:TRIGG-ER
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May 21, 2016 09:48
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Nice problems you have in the US. Over here the average ticket sales for the highest league match is around 10.
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Someone in Brooklyn once chastised me and my old roommate for saying "some stupid motherfucker" on the street in Brooklyn. Where do these people think they live?
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Gigi Galli posted:Someone in Brooklyn once chastised me and my old roommate for saying "some stupid motherfucker" on the street in Brooklyn. Where do these people think they live? Park Slope?
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Brony Car posted:Park Slope? don't sign your posts
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Brony Car posted:Park Slope? Yes lol chuggo is BACK posted:don't sign your posts Jesus, lol
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chuggo is BACK posted:don't sign your posts
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May 22, 2016 15:39
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chuggo is BACK posted:don't sign your posts lol loving hell get this ape under control
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chuggo is BACK posted:don't sign your posts loving lmao
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chuggo is BACK posted:don't sign your posts WHOA
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Hello r/soccer, I’m a plastic. I’m a new soccer fan and I follow my local team, NYCFC. I know some of you were expecting a song or maybe even a poem, what with a title like this, but I’m just taking something from someone else and loving it up. I’m an American, that’s what we do. My tale begins like so many plastics: I grew up playing soccer. It was one of many sports I played, but it was the first one I played on an organized team and I continued playing through high school. I loved soccer. I only ever watched soccer on TV every 4 years, whenever the World Cup was on. I didn’t know any of the players names, but I learned them during the Cup and some became minor legends. DONOVAN! The one thing I hated more than anything else about soccer was the flopping. I know, I know, it’s artistry, it’s part of the game, it’s...well, it’s bullshit and it was what turned me and so many of my friends off from watching soccer growing up. As a plastic America, I understood that refs could make bad calls and there was some theatrics in the NBA (I’m looking at you Dwayne Wade!), but it ruined what could have been an awesome growing sport in America. See, we American’s love sports. We love all kinds of sports. We really love football (American Football). And college football, well, it’s firmly in a league of it’s own in America. There is a reason that of the ten largest stadiums in the world, eight of them are in the US and are shrines to college football. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_by_capacity I defy anyone who thinks Americans don’t get sport or sporting culture to go to a Michigan v Ohio State game or Texas v Texas A&M college football game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pZaPLdKdqA We Americans tend to move around a lot. We grow up in an area (for me New England, (see, we wanted to be England right from the beginning, just NEWer!)), go to college in an area (U. Michigan, go Wolverines!), and then settle in an area (NYC), sometimes moving several times before really settling (San Francisco, Boston, and back to NYC). We develop allegiances to the teams in all these areas. I’m a Red Sox, New England Patriots, Boston Celtics, UCONN basketball (law school), U. of Michigan Wolverines, and now NYCFC fan. I couldn’t like any of the other New York teams due to growing up in New England and the bitter rivalries that due in fact exist in American sports. We actually do understand the concept: try sitting in a group of Yankees fans wearing a Red Sox hat or shirt. Come on, it’ll be fun! But NYCFC, a new team, in what is looking like my semi-permanent residence. That was something I could get behind. Learning about the team and the players long before they ever played a game, I decided to follow Manchester City as well. The connections were obvious (ownership) and monetary (us NY’ers really get this), so I became a plastic Manchester CIty fan as well. Thanks to NBCSN, we Americans can now watch every premier league game live. I did in fact watch every game, cup and non-league games included. (Toure is old, Sterling sucks, KDB is money and Aguero is god). I learned about the Euros, other leagues (thanks to Champions League) and became pretty obsessed with soccer generally. You see, the one issue I’d had with soccer (the one I mentioned earlier, the flopping thing), well it wasn’t as big an issue in BPL games and they strictly enforce rules against it in the MLS. So where does this leave us? We are plastic, new, bandwagon-y fans without a culture. But we are trying and I think succeeding at an unexpectedly rapid pace that is definitely accelerating. The New York metropolitan area (as defined by the US Census in 2015) has 20.2 million people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area We have the Yankees, Giants, Rangers, Knicks, Jets, Mets, Nets, Islanders, and now Red Bulls and NYCFC (we also have two women’s professional teams - Liberty in Basketball and Sky Blue FC (my wife made me add this)). It is a crowded marketplace for your sporting attention. And these are just the pro teams. Add in countless colleges and you have an incredibly diverse set of sporting interests. We are plastic for soccer. We get that. It’s new to us and we hated it before. That is changing and not just for hipsters (I’m too old to be a hipster, although I’ve been called a mipster (which is Mr. Hipster)). We get that we are crud. I kinda like coming to r/soccer to see silly things being said about the MLS and American sports because it is usually so ignorant of the history and the American obsession with competition. And that leads to my final plastic point: Patrick Viera recently talked in an interview about the level of play in the MLS and said he and almost every European comes here is surprised at the level of quality. But he also noted our biggest handicap. College and High School sports. You see, these are important community driven things in American. College Football (and by association - all college sports) aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. But they create a significant handicap for our athletes. Our schools at both levels have lots of rules PREVENTING playing various sports year round or practicing too much. When some of our best college players enter the MLS at 23 years old, they’ve literally missed 6-8 years of intense development and training that European and South American players working at the highest level get. This is why our national team coach prefers foreign born players (US servicemen in Germany -- keep up the good work!). Foreign born players don’t have the restrictions on their development that are artificially imposed on American players from a very early age. In summary: please continue hating us and our teams and our fans. Americans like nothing more than being underestimated and disrespected. It drives us to make changes and improve on things the rest of the world has given us (only later do we gently caress them up). But just remember, in 2050, when we dominate soccer (we are a country with more Germans than Germany, more Brits than England, and more of everything else than most other places combined), we told you that plastic is pretty hard to destroy (its why we have rules about it for landfills). So here’s to the plastics! Here’s to the new culture of soccer in America! Here’s to r/soccer hating us and making GBS threads on us forever! GO NYCFC! JERSEY BOYS SUCK!
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Toure is old, Sterling sucks, KDB is money and Aguero is god
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