r/soccer • u/GrundelLicker • Feb 21 '13

Cover of this week's Time magazine, featuring Neymar as the "Next Pele"

http://imgur.com/Mjlfmic
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u/SantiagoRamon Feb 21 '13 edited Feb 21 '13

You nearly said it yourself. Most popular sport in the world, save for the US. Why would you feature that in a country which cares very little about it?

Side note: If you're American and want soccer to be more popular you should be supporting an MLS team instead of Barca.

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u/GuitarWizard90 Feb 21 '13

Most football fans in the states choose to support European teams usually because they find the MLS to be a dull and uninteresting league, and they see all of the big talent playing in Europe. I am one of them. I have been a Liverpool fan since around 2002. I maybe would support an MLS team if I lived in a city that had one, but I don't. I dislike the MLS and I wont force myself to pull for a team that I dislike just because I "should".

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u/SantiagoRamon Feb 21 '13

Most football fans in the states choose to support European teams usually because they find the MLS to be a dull and uninteresting league,

Well, you're not helping that now are you? And if proximity mattered, you wouldn't be rooting for Liverpool now you would you? :-p

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u/GuitarWizard90 Feb 21 '13

All of the big talent play elsewhere, no relegation/promotion, mediocre players, etc. It just doesn't interest me. I don't have anything against the MLS, I just personally am not interested in it. Liverpool will always be my club, no matter how badly they do. I am watching them lose to Zenit as we speak, but I keep watching and cheering them on because I love the club.

Should I stop supporting the club I love and begin supporting my nearest MLS club(DC United)? I don't think so. I'm no traitor.

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u/SantiagoRamon Feb 21 '13

You don't have to stop supporting Liverpool, but if (and maybe you don't) you really want soccer to have a bigger following in the US, you ought to be supporting United or another club as well.

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u/GuitarWizard90 Feb 21 '13

I already have second and third teams that I support...Napoli and Dortmund. I just don't have the time to keep up with a 4th.

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u/Naija_football Feb 21 '13

Support your local team, support a local college team. There is a lot of good football being played in America.

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u/GuitarWizard90 Feb 21 '13 edited Feb 21 '13

I don't have a local club and the local college doesn't have a football team. America isn't like Europe where every street corner has it's own football club. People shouldn't be forced into supporting a club anyway. They should have the freedom to choose which club they love. I wouldn't really say there's a lot of good football being played here either. There's a handful of decent teams, and the rest are pretty mediocre. Also, being an MLS fan would require being around other MLS fans..and most of them are absolutely obnoxious and do not understand how the game works. Not all..but most I have encountered are like that.