P-shaw! Soccer is one of the most elemental, technical and
hardest games in human history.
There is always a game plan. It's not what the uneducated see as a bunch of guys running around, trying to kick a ball into a net.
There is no size or height requirement to be good at soccer. Even a keeper can be small as long as they can move fast enough between ends of the net.
Soccer is a real world sport - anyone in the world can play it. Sure, in the U.S. football is known for the helmeted types who get a rest every thirty seconds when the play is over. Football is soccer everywhere else (maybe except Canada).
You don't have to have big $$$ to play, though there are some who receive big $$$ to play.
And most importantly soccer players are by far the fittest athletes in modern day sports. Through the duration of a game, they can run over ten miles - without time outs, and only one break at 45 minutes. The game can elongate with stoppage time and two overtime periods of 10 minutes.
I'd like to see Shaq or Terrell Owens or Derek Jeter try themselves at soccer. Something tells me they'd be the first to grab their knee and take a fake fall.
