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Poll Question: Who is for you the best soccer player in the world?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2005 at 10:58

why no rooney? or lampard? or gerrard?

 any of these 3 should be on there instead of beckham IMO, much better players.

 in 1 or 2 years, rooney will be the best in the world



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2005 at 11:16
Lampard and Gerranrd are much better than Rooney ...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2005 at 11:52
Originally posted by Manunkind Manunkind wrote:

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The best soccer player is one who never plays- because its more exciting to watch someone sitting than playing that horrid game!

Oh come on, American football is not only about sitting... there's also a lot of standing with perched buttocks involved...

You know, I've never understood why "American" football hasn't really caught on elsewhere.  It's not for lack of trying - the highest attendance ever at an "American football" game was actually in Mexico, and there have been games with more than 100,000 spectators in Japan and Europe as well.  Tryouts in the European league routinely draw thousands of prospective players.  The National Football League Hall of Fame has enshrined players from Bavaria, Guatemala, Norway, Italy, Honduras, Mexico, and of course Canada (where a very similar style of football has been played for over a hundred years).  I don't hear lacrosse, baseball, or basketball referred to as "American" sports, although all of them originated over here as well.

I think it must be all the padding - people who haven't played the game just don't get that.  Frankly, a lot of the various pads have come about over they years as a reaction to the number of players who were paralyzed or killed playing without them.  It's still a very dangerous sport - my beloved Green Bay Packers have fully one-third of their roster injured this year, and there are still three games to go in the season.

Ah well, I'm going to go settle in with some popcorn (hmm, another American convention) and a Coke (hmmm), and watch some big guys in pads beat the hell out of each other now - San Diego Chargers and the undefeated Indianapolis Colts should be a good one to watch.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2005 at 12:21
Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

Originally posted by Manunkind Manunkind wrote:

Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

The best soccer player is one who never plays- because its more exciting to watch someone sitting than playing that horrid game!

Oh come on, American football is not only about sitting... there's also a lot of standing with perched buttocks involved...

You know, I've never understood why "American" football hasn't really caught on elsewhere.  It's not for lack of trying - the highest attendance ever at an "American football" game was actually in Mexico, and there have been games with more than 100,000 spectators in Japan and Europe as well.  Tryouts in the European league routinely draw thousands of prospective players.  The National Football League Hall of Fame has enshrined players from Bavaria, Guatemala, Norway, Italy, Honduras, Mexico, and of course Canada (where a very similar style of football has been played for over a hundred years).  I don't hear lacrosse, baseball, or basketball referred to as "American" sports, although all of them originated over here as well.

I think it must be all the padding - people who haven't played the game just don't get that.  Frankly, a lot of the various pads have come about over they years as a reaction to the number of players who were paralyzed or killed playing without them.  It's still a very dangerous sport - my beloved Green Bay Packers have fully one-third of their roster injured this year, and there are still three games to go in the season.

Ah well, I'm going to go settle in with some popcorn (hmm, another American convention) and a Coke (hmmm), and watch some big guys in pads beat the hell out of each other now - San Diego Chargers and the undefeated Indianapolis Colts should be a good one to watch.

I like to see (and guess I understand the rules) American Football... here in Brazil (and several other countries) we play Rugby which IMO is tougher since players use no protection.

But see that way, in Soccer you have all players at the same time in the field... they don't go in and out according to the needs of the game. So, if Marino or Elway or Montana played soccer they had to face each other at the same time during the match!

Another point, 90% of a Soccer game is played with the feet - the rudest part of the human body. It is a pleasure to see some guys (and girls too) control the ball using that sector of our body with accuracy - there is also some antropological discussion about the effects of the Industrial Revolution and the necessity of the workers to rest their hands while on leisure and so on.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2005 at 13:07
Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

Originally posted by Manunkind Manunkind wrote:

Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

The best soccer player is one who never plays- because its more exciting to watch someone sitting than playing that horrid game!

Oh come on, American football is not only about sitting... there's also a lot of standing with perched buttocks involved...

You know, I've never understood why "American" football hasn't really caught on elsewhere.  It's not for lack of trying - the highest attendance ever at an "American football" game was actually in Mexico, and there have been games with more than 100,000 spectators in Japan and Europe as well.  Tryouts in the European league routinely draw thousands of prospective players.  The National Football League Hall of Fame has enshrined players from Bavaria, Guatemala, Norway, Italy, Honduras, Mexico, and of course Canada (where a very similar style of football has been played for over a hundred years).  I don't hear lacrosse, baseball, or basketball referred to as "American" sports, although all of them originated over here as well.

I think it must be all the padding - people who haven't played the game just don't get that.  Frankly, a lot of the various pads have come about over they years as a reaction to the number of players who were paralyzed or killed playing without them.  It's still a very dangerous sport - my beloved Green Bay Packers have fully one-third of their roster injured this year, and there are still three games to go in the season.

Ah well, I'm going to go settle in with some popcorn (hmm, another American convention) and a Coke (hmmm), and watch some big guys in pads beat the hell out of each other now - San Diego Chargers and the undefeated Indianapolis Colts should be a good one to watch.

American football must be fun to play with its long periods of tension interspersed with ultra-intense moments... unfortunately I could never appreciate these elements as a spectator.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2005 at 13:43
Cruijf. Or van Basten.

Hah, the Netherlands only are pattriotic when there's international soccer.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2005 at 14:48
I saw some cup between the best nations from the different championships (the European masters, African masters etc.) Pre-World Cup or something like that it was called. I was very impressed by Dida, the Brazilian goalkeeper. Excellent goalkeeping, good footwork, good eye for the game, etc. He is one of the main reasons to why I think Brazil will take the WC next year.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2006 at 04:31
Zidane
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2006 at 13:12
Ronaldinho IMO
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2006 at 14:21
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GIGI BUFFON and "SUPERPIPPO" INZAGHI!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2006 at 05:42
Originally posted by glass house glass house wrote:

There was, is and wil be only one :  Johan Cruijff  !!
 
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