tomcook.net » Soccer http://tomcook.net/wp The Cook Family Blog Mon, 23 Sep 2019 01:51:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Soccer in the USA http://tomcook.net/wp/blog/2010/07/12/soccer-in-the-usa/ http://tomcook.net/wp/blog/2010/07/12/soccer-in-the-usa/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:14:56 +0000 Thomas Cook http://tomcook.net/wp/?p=1612 Continue reading →]]> So the World Cup has come and gone again. This year it seemed like more people in the US payed attention than last time. I sure hope that this trend continues. Over the past month I have watched a ton of soccer and had the time to think about how alien the game is to those of us in the USA. I feel that between the timing and all the diving will keep pro soccer on the back burner.

The timing of the sport is wacko. Counting up it totally foreign. We have to first know that they play for 90 minutes and then subtract the time on the clock from 90 to figure out how much time is left. Americans don’t want to know how much time has elapsed, we want to know how much is left until we can go get food and use the bathroom. To make matters worse there aren’t any commercial breaks so if you don’t have a DVR you have to hold it. There is a halftime at 45 minutes. Stoppage time does get added on at the half and end because the clock never stops. It gets totally confusing to play until 47 minutes, stop for halftime and then reset the clock to 45. This makes no sense to Americans.

Another reason is diving. To Americans this is not viewed as unsportsmanlike or fair. Seeing people constantly fall down clutching their knee my appeal to those in the English Premier League and other European Leagues, but not here in the US.

Low scoring and long games don’t help either, but fakers and weird timing make this game unfriendly in the US.

]]> http://tomcook.net/wp/blog/2010/07/12/soccer-in-the-usa/feed/ 0 Winter 2 Schedule http://tomcook.net/wp/blog/2005/03/11/winter-2-schedule-2/ http://tomcook.net/wp/blog/2005/03/11/winter-2-schedule-2/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:23:12 +0000 admin http://tomcook.net/wp/blog/2005/03/11/winter-2-schedule-2/ Continue reading →]]> We have a new schedule for this sessions soccer schedule.
The actual schedule

March 4 – 10:30
March 11 – 8:30
March 18 – 8:30
March 25 – 11:30
April 1 – 10:30
April 8 – 8:30
April 15 – 10:30
April 22 – 7:00

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]]> http://tomcook.net/wp/blog/2005/02/14/scurvy-bastards-dominate-2/feed/ 0 Scurvy Bastards ROCK!!!!! http://tomcook.net/wp/blog/2005/01/10/scurvy-bastards-rock-2/ http://tomcook.net/wp/blog/2005/01/10/scurvy-bastards-rock-2/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:53:11 +0000 admin http://tomcook.net/wp/blog/2005/01/10/scurvy-bastards-rock-2/ Continue reading →]]> We have moved to playing on Friday nights now (see schedule below). Apparently last session we ended up 4th out of 6 teams, which is good for us. This past week we had our first game of the new session, we won 6-3.

Friday Jan 7 ——- 10:30
Friday Jan 14 —— 8:30
Friday Jan 21 —— 12:00
Friday Jan 28 —— 10:00
Friady Feb 4 ——- 10:00
Friday Feb 11 —– 10:00
Friday Feb 18 —— 12:00
Friday Feb 25 —— 8:30

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