super_dror
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Hello dudes. I am new here. here are some of the greatest club teams all over the history of Soccer. please, select 5 (exactlly 5) club sides that you think were the best ever. later I will give my own opinion.
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Soccer (Football) poll- greatest ever 5 club teams:
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Welcome to the forum! You may have a some people answer but not that many Americans follow soccer or know the history. Why don't you educate us and give your answer.
Never heard of them.
1985 Bears.
1972 Dolphins.
The team from the movie "Victory."
2004 Red Sox.
Beer.
Michael Jordan.
1972 Dolphins.
The team from the movie "Victory."
2004 Red Sox.
Beer.
Michael Jordan.
I voted for the only 5 teams I have heard of.
Is Bayern Munchen good? I have relatives who live in Munich.....or Munchen....whatever floats your boat.
Chubby
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Why didn't you put Brazil and Argentina on your list? Do names like Pele, Ronaldo and Maradona ring bell to you? These are both great teams in the history of soccer.
Clubs son, clubs. Not countries. Those players you mentioned played for different clubs in europe. If we talk about the best countries soccer wise, Those two are up there with france.
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no mention of utd or celtic's lisbon lions poor list mate
well i wasn't alive to see most of those clubs during the time periods you mentioned...but I love Fernando Torres for Liverpool and Carlos Tevez for Man U
Soccer Is Ruining America
Soccer Is Ruining America - WSJ.com
Soccer Is Ruining America
And we have no one to blame but ourselves.
By STEPHEN H. WEBB
Soccer is running America into the ground, and there is very little anyone can do about it. Social critics have long observed that we live in a therapeutic society that treats young people as if they can do no wrong. Every kid is a winner, and nobody is ever left behind, no matter how many times they watch the ball going the other way. Whether the dumbing down of America or soccer came first is hard to say, but soccer is clearly an important means by which American energy, drive and competitiveness are being undermined to the point of no return.
What other game, to put it bluntly, is so boring to watch? (Bowling and golf come to mind, but the sound of crashing pins and the sight of the well-attired strolling on perfectly kept greens are at least inherently pleasurable activities.) The linear, two-dimensional action of soccer is like the rocking of a boat but without any storm and while the boat has not even left the dock. Think of two posses pursuing their prey in opposite directions without any bullets in their guns. Soccer is the fluoridation of the American sporting scene.
For those who think I jest, let me put forth four points, which is more points than most fans will see in a week of games???and more points than most soccer players have scored since their pee-wee days.
1) Any sport that limits you to using your feet, with the occasional bang of the head, has something very wrong with it. Indeed, soccer is a liberal's dream of tragedy: It creates an egalitarian playing field by rigorously enforcing a uniform disability. Anthropologists commonly define man according to his use of hands. We have the thumb, an opposable digit that God gave us to distinguish us from animals that walk on all fours. The thumb lets us do things like throw baseballs and fold our hands in prayer. We can even talk with our hands. Have you ever seen a deaf person trying to talk with his feet? When you are really angry and acting like an animal, you kick out with your feet. Only fools punch a wall with their hands. The Iraqi who threw his shoes at President Bush was following his primordial instincts. Showing someone your feet, or sticking your shoes in someone's face, is the ultimate sign of disrespect. Do kids ever say, "Trick or Treat, smell my hands"? Did Jesus wash his disciples' hands at the Last Supper? No, hands are divine (they are one of the body parts most frequently attributed to God), while feet are in need of redemption. In all the portraits of God's wrath, never once is he pictured as wanting to step on us or kick us; he does not stoop that low.
2) Sporting should be about breaking kids down before you start building them up. Take baseball, for example. When I was a kid, baseball was the most popular sport precisely because it was so demanding. Even its language was intimidating, with bases, bats, strikes and outs. Striding up to the plate gave each of us a chance to act like we were starring in a Western movie, and tapping the bat to the plate gave us our first experience with inventing self-indulgent personal rituals. The boy chosen to be the pitcher was inevitably the first kid on the team to reach puberty, and he threw a hard ball right at you.
Thus, you had to face the fear of disfigurement as well as the statistical probability of striking out. The spectacle of your failure was so public that it was like having all of your friends invited to your home to watch your dad forcing you to eat your vegetables. We also spent a lot of time in the outfield chanting, "Hey batter batter!" as if we were Buddhist monks on steroids. Our chanting was compensatory behavior, a way of making the time go by, which is surely why at soccer games today it is the parents who do all of the yelling.
3) Everyone knows that soccer is a foreign invasion, but few people know exactly what is wrong with that. More than having to do with its origin, soccer is a European sport because it is all about death and despair. Americans would never invent a sport where the better you get the less you score. Even the way most games end, in sudden death, suggests something of an old-fashioned duel. How could anyone enjoy a game where so much energy results in so little advantage, and which typically ends with a penalty kick out, as if it is the audience that needs to be put out of its misery? Shootouts are such an anticlimax to the game and are so unpredictable that the teams might as well flip a coin to see who wins???indeed, they might as well flip the coin before the game, and not play at all.
4) And then there is the question of sex. I know my daughter will kick me when she reads this, but soccer is a game for girls. Girls are too smart to waste an entire day playing baseball, and they do not have the bloodlust for football. Soccer penalizes shoving and burns countless calories, and the margins of victory are almost always too narrow to afford any gloating. As a display of nearly death-defying stamina, soccer mimics the paradigmatic feminine experience of childbirth more than the masculine business of destroying your opponent with insurmountable power.
Let me conclude on a note of despair appropriate to my topic. There is no way to run away from soccer, if only because it is a sport all about running. It is as relentless as it is easy, and it is as tiring to play as it is tedious to watch. The real tragedy is that soccer is a foreign invasion, but it is not a plot to overthrow America. For those inclined toward paranoia, it would be easy to blame soccer's success on the political left, which, after all, worked for years to bring European decadence and despair to America. The left tried to make existentialism, Marxism, poststructuralism, and deconstructionism fashionable in order to weaken the clarity, pragmatism and drive of American culture. What the left could not accomplish through these intellectual fads, one might suspect, they are trying to accomplish through sport.
Yet this suspicion would be mistaken. Soccer is of foreign origin, that is certainly true, but its promotion and implementation are thoroughly domestic. Soccer is a self-inflicted wound. Americans have nobody to blame but themselves. Conservative suburban families, the backbone of America, have turned to soccer in droves. Baseball is too intimidating, football too brutal, and basketball takes too much time to develop the required skills. American parents in the past several decades are overworked and exhausted, but their children are overweight and neglected. Soccer is the perfect antidote to television and video games. It forces kids to run and run, and everyone can play their role, no matter how minor or irrelevant to the game. Soccer and television are the peanut butter and jelly of parenting.
I should know. I am an overworked teacher, with books to read and books to write, and before I put in a video for the kids to watch while I work in the evenings, they need to have spent some of their energy. Otherwise, they want to play with me! Last year all three of my kids were on three different soccer teams at the same time. My daughter is on a traveling team, and she is quite good. I had to sign a form that said, among other things, I would not do anything embarrassing to her or the team during the game. I told the coach I could not sign it. She was perplexed and worried. "Why not," she asked? "Are you one of those parents who yells at their kids? "Not at all," I replied, "I read books on the sidelines during the game, and this embarrasses my daughter to no end." That is my one way of protesting the rise of this pitiful sport. Nonetheless, I must say that my kids and I come home from a soccer game a very happy family.
Soccer Is Ruining America - WSJ.com
Soccer Is Ruining America
And we have no one to blame but ourselves.
By STEPHEN H. WEBB
Soccer is running America into the ground, and there is very little anyone can do about it. Social critics have long observed that we live in a therapeutic society that treats young people as if they can do no wrong. Every kid is a winner, and nobody is ever left behind, no matter how many times they watch the ball going the other way. Whether the dumbing down of America or soccer came first is hard to say, but soccer is clearly an important means by which American energy, drive and competitiveness are being undermined to the point of no return.
What other game, to put it bluntly, is so boring to watch? (Bowling and golf come to mind, but the sound of crashing pins and the sight of the well-attired strolling on perfectly kept greens are at least inherently pleasurable activities.) The linear, two-dimensional action of soccer is like the rocking of a boat but without any storm and while the boat has not even left the dock. Think of two posses pursuing their prey in opposite directions without any bullets in their guns. Soccer is the fluoridation of the American sporting scene.
For those who think I jest, let me put forth four points, which is more points than most fans will see in a week of games???and more points than most soccer players have scored since their pee-wee days.
1) Any sport that limits you to using your feet, with the occasional bang of the head, has something very wrong with it. Indeed, soccer is a liberal's dream of tragedy: It creates an egalitarian playing field by rigorously enforcing a uniform disability. Anthropologists commonly define man according to his use of hands. We have the thumb, an opposable digit that God gave us to distinguish us from animals that walk on all fours. The thumb lets us do things like throw baseballs and fold our hands in prayer. We can even talk with our hands. Have you ever seen a deaf person trying to talk with his feet? When you are really angry and acting like an animal, you kick out with your feet. Only fools punch a wall with their hands. The Iraqi who threw his shoes at President Bush was following his primordial instincts. Showing someone your feet, or sticking your shoes in someone's face, is the ultimate sign of disrespect. Do kids ever say, "Trick or Treat, smell my hands"? Did Jesus wash his disciples' hands at the Last Supper? No, hands are divine (they are one of the body parts most frequently attributed to God), while feet are in need of redemption. In all the portraits of God's wrath, never once is he pictured as wanting to step on us or kick us; he does not stoop that low.
2) Sporting should be about breaking kids down before you start building them up. Take baseball, for example. When I was a kid, baseball was the most popular sport precisely because it was so demanding. Even its language was intimidating, with bases, bats, strikes and outs. Striding up to the plate gave each of us a chance to act like we were starring in a Western movie, and tapping the bat to the plate gave us our first experience with inventing self-indulgent personal rituals. The boy chosen to be the pitcher was inevitably the first kid on the team to reach puberty, and he threw a hard ball right at you.
Thus, you had to face the fear of disfigurement as well as the statistical probability of striking out. The spectacle of your failure was so public that it was like having all of your friends invited to your home to watch your dad forcing you to eat your vegetables. We also spent a lot of time in the outfield chanting, "Hey batter batter!" as if we were Buddhist monks on steroids. Our chanting was compensatory behavior, a way of making the time go by, which is surely why at soccer games today it is the parents who do all of the yelling.
3) Everyone knows that soccer is a foreign invasion, but few people know exactly what is wrong with that. More than having to do with its origin, soccer is a European sport because it is all about death and despair. Americans would never invent a sport where the better you get the less you score. Even the way most games end, in sudden death, suggests something of an old-fashioned duel. How could anyone enjoy a game where so much energy results in so little advantage, and which typically ends with a penalty kick out, as if it is the audience that needs to be put out of its misery? Shootouts are such an anticlimax to the game and are so unpredictable that the teams might as well flip a coin to see who wins???indeed, they might as well flip the coin before the game, and not play at all.
4) And then there is the question of sex. I know my daughter will kick me when she reads this, but soccer is a game for girls. Girls are too smart to waste an entire day playing baseball, and they do not have the bloodlust for football. Soccer penalizes shoving and burns countless calories, and the margins of victory are almost always too narrow to afford any gloating. As a display of nearly death-defying stamina, soccer mimics the paradigmatic feminine experience of childbirth more than the masculine business of destroying your opponent with insurmountable power.
Let me conclude on a note of despair appropriate to my topic. There is no way to run away from soccer, if only because it is a sport all about running. It is as relentless as it is easy, and it is as tiring to play as it is tedious to watch. The real tragedy is that soccer is a foreign invasion, but it is not a plot to overthrow America. For those inclined toward paranoia, it would be easy to blame soccer's success on the political left, which, after all, worked for years to bring European decadence and despair to America. The left tried to make existentialism, Marxism, poststructuralism, and deconstructionism fashionable in order to weaken the clarity, pragmatism and drive of American culture. What the left could not accomplish through these intellectual fads, one might suspect, they are trying to accomplish through sport.
Yet this suspicion would be mistaken. Soccer is of foreign origin, that is certainly true, but its promotion and implementation are thoroughly domestic. Soccer is a self-inflicted wound. Americans have nobody to blame but themselves. Conservative suburban families, the backbone of America, have turned to soccer in droves. Baseball is too intimidating, football too brutal, and basketball takes too much time to develop the required skills. American parents in the past several decades are overworked and exhausted, but their children are overweight and neglected. Soccer is the perfect antidote to television and video games. It forces kids to run and run, and everyone can play their role, no matter how minor or irrelevant to the game. Soccer and television are the peanut butter and jelly of parenting.
I should know. I am an overworked teacher, with books to read and books to write, and before I put in a video for the kids to watch while I work in the evenings, they need to have spent some of their energy. Otherwise, they want to play with me! Last year all three of my kids were on three different soccer teams at the same time. My daughter is on a traveling team, and she is quite good. I had to sign a form that said, among other things, I would not do anything embarrassing to her or the team during the game. I told the coach I could not sign it. She was perplexed and worried. "Why not," she asked? "Are you one of those parents who yells at their kids? "Not at all," I replied, "I read books on the sidelines during the game, and this embarrasses my daughter to no end." That is my one way of protesting the rise of this pitiful sport. Nonetheless, I must say that my kids and I come home from a soccer game a very happy family.
sexy_animal
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I'm not even going to read that drivel. Anyone who puts soccer down for lack of athleticism or skills, clearly never played. Claiming that it's a "sissy sport" is equally fucking ridiculous.
Entertainment value is subjective and varies widely across leagues and styles of play.
Entertainment value is subjective and varies widely across leagues and styles of play.
Another ridiculous dive and player riot
The ref in this video barely touched the player and he flops prompting other players to chase the heavy set ref....the players couldn't catch up to him!
It's weird how soccer players kick when fighting, most of the time they miss and fall.
Seen a bunch of Mexicans fight like this in Flushing Meadow park.
The ref in this video barely touched the player and he flops prompting other players to chase the heavy set ref....the players couldn't catch up to him!
It's weird how soccer players kick when fighting, most of the time they miss and fall.
Seen a bunch of Mexicans fight like this in Flushing Meadow park.
Chubby
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I love soccer. Damn.. this video is making me want to play soccer.
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Soccer is an okay sport I guess, it's just not my thing. I can honestly say, that the only thing enjoyable to me about soccer is the hooliganism.
+1 I truly hate when the american population rips on soccer and has never tried the sport. Try out for a highschool team and then come back to me.
Chubby
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Nice moves
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sexy_animal
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Yeah, hah, I'm just going to laugh at Mino's lame attempts to discredit the sport he knows nothing about. People who talk shit soccer being "a sissy sport", generally speaking don't know their ass from their elbow.
They don't know that when most soccer players end their careers around the age 30, their bodies are usually wrecked. They don't know about the concussions, the dislocations, the awkward falls that result in broken bones, sprains, etc. They don't know that each match guarantees at least 5-10 very painful bruises on your thighs, shins, feet, and ankles. They don't know that your whole body hurts like a bitch for a couple of days after playing. They don't know what kind of acceleration, explosiveness, mobility and balance is required to be competitive on the field. They don't know what kind of strength is required to ward off a defender while you're trying to shield the ball. In short, they don't know shit, because all they see on the TV screen is just some guy running after the ball.
Going back to the original question. I refuse to vote for any team that doesn't have Zidane or Steven Gerrard on it.
They don't know that when most soccer players end their careers around the age 30, their bodies are usually wrecked. They don't know about the concussions, the dislocations, the awkward falls that result in broken bones, sprains, etc. They don't know that each match guarantees at least 5-10 very painful bruises on your thighs, shins, feet, and ankles. They don't know that your whole body hurts like a bitch for a couple of days after playing. They don't know what kind of acceleration, explosiveness, mobility and balance is required to be competitive on the field. They don't know what kind of strength is required to ward off a defender while you're trying to shield the ball. In short, they don't know shit, because all they see on the TV screen is just some guy running after the ball.
Going back to the original question. I refuse to vote for any team that doesn't have Zidane or Steven Gerrard on it.
OuiSwim
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I'm with sexy animal, having played soccer for 11 years it's a VERY intense sport. Possibly worse than that pansy american futball. I tore my urethra taking a groin shot a few days back, ever see any other sports where people do that?! Didn't think so.. 
By the way Byern Munich rapes!
By the way Byern Munich rapes!
No doubt Football(soccer) requires a great deal of skill and athleticism, unfortunately you have the south americans who have ruined the image, with there constant flopping, and that has carried over into the european game.
OuiSwim
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Zidane's head butt fracturing that guys sternum was EPIC, and Gerrard is a god walking amongst mortals when it comes to futbol.
My elbow doesn't smell like ass so there.
Soccer fans can be so sensitive.
Zidane's head butt is certainly right up there as the best head shot in the last 1000 years, without a doubt.
That hit certainly contributed something wonderful to soccer - his is a name that will forever be synonymous with athletic triumph.
On top of all that, he's wonderfully modest and humble. You have to love him... especially that wonderful head fake he does when he breezes past defenders through what once upon a time the valley of death. This is boundary pushing stuff, people - he is nothing less that a trailblazer, the light by which the darkness in which other would-be soccer players is destroyed and replaced with wonderful creation - more than just a man, a God amongst us, here to show the very limits of the imagination of Man, and then go beyond them.....he is the wind beneath my wings.
sexy_animal
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You're that bored, huh?
no, I am watching a soccer match right now and I am down to chewing my toe nails from all the suspense.
This is how I view soccer.
Simpson Soccer video by ghazi1012 - Photobucket
Simpson Soccer video by ghazi1012 - Photobucket
