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An accurate blog entry on soccer.

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Posted by Karen DeCoster at 06:18 AM

All the dissin' of soccer is a great thing. This superb article from the Weekly Standard is a beautiful thing. I suggest you read it if you too hate soccer. The authors bring up points about the game that I had never before related to its dreadedness. Soccer is nihilism, contrary to nature, and denies basic human ability.

Yet soccer flies in the face of nature. In almost all other sports, the head is protected against injury. Players wear helmets and try to avoid contact with sticks, bats, balls, elbows, fists, roadways, goalposts and other things that might inflict injury on that big brain that gives humans the ability to plan ahead, calculate, strategize, coordinate eye and hand movements, anticipate the consequence of actions--in other words, to play the game.

But soccer players use their heads, deliberately, to contact the ball. This is contrary to all human instinct, which is to keep the head out of the way of danger. Duck, you idiot! Protecting the head against injury is deeply rooted in our nature. It's an evolutionary survival response. Sacrifice a limb if you must, give up an arm or leg, but protect your head at all costs. Yet in soccer the player is encouraged, no, expected to hit the ball with his head. This is as stupid an action as a human being can undertake.

I've always thought that the goaltender in soccer makes the little league (or tee ball) right fielder seem glorious. I hate this empty and crazed soccer mania. I think people hop on the soccer bandwagon to be a part of something - anything - so long as it's something that is perceived to be popular and chic. Soccer is not chic; it just plain stinks. Heck, not even the market can solve soccer's utter inadequacy by bringing forth a "funny ball." It turns out that the new ball is merely a ploy to produce "sales for Adidas of 15 million replicas of the $240 balls, more than twice as many as they sold after the 2002 World Cup."