World Cup Soccer

Many fans find soccer to be foreign and boring because of so much low-scoring games. There are more shutouts in a Primier League soccer season than in a 162-game Major League Baseball season. A goal is as successful as hitting a homerun. That is the only way to score whereas in baseball, homeruns are not the only way to score a run. Heck, a game can end by a bases-loaded walk, and a game-winning one-run single is more significant than a homerun for a losing team who is trailing by ten runs. In soccer, ties are very common, and in a tournament round, there has been times that the game has to be determined by penalty kicks. Very fucking pathetic.

Just because it is not invented in America does not mean we need to diss soccer. We just need to make a game to have more high-scoring affair. Do you know that box area where the goaltender covers? It is called the penalty area. To make it more interesting, let us change a few rules a bit. The goaltender should be the only defensive player to be in that area. That way the only player the forwards need to face in that area is just the goaltender. This means that the goaltender need to face three or four offensive players in the penalty area with no help from the rest of the defense. That eans more opportunity to score. As for overtime in the playoffs, it is sudden death. The game will never end until there is a score. Only breaks after 45 minutes would be necessary, and they keep on playing no matter how many fucking hours the need to score the winning goal. No shootouts. No penalty kicks to determine the outcome. All it needs is endurance from the players, and to make it more interesting, unlimited substitutions is necessary just like hockey. The goaltenders shall be substituted once unless the replacement is injured. That means fresh legs from the players to have a better chances to end the game as early as it can.

If shootouts or penalty kicks are needed to determine the championship, then let us have a 3-point shootout to determine the national champion in the Final Four. Or a homerun derby to determine the champion of the World Series. Yeah, that would be totally fucked up.

If you are so patriotic, then you need to keep on rooting for Team USA for this year's World Cup. So what if they got their asses whipped by Team Italy. At least so some support for this great nation.