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Allow me to introduce myself…Never mind, as if you don’t know who I am, then you don’t really know soccer. Let’s just say that I’ve been watching…nee…studying soccer now for over sixty days and leave it at that.

Soccer is a great game. I mean…with what other sport can you suspend watching a game, go grocery shopping, get your car washed, stop off and pay a little on your 2- month delinquent electric bill, maybe hit a strip joint for a lap dance or two…or fifteen, then come back home to finish watching the game, having missed…well…nothing. Do that with football and you might miss 5 touchdowns. Do that with basketball and you might miss 80 points. Do that with baseball or hockey and you might miss…well…okay…a funny fight or two.

Americans need to get more serious about soccer. Some of the European countries government-reprimanded & banned their teams due to sucking in the World Cup. We Americans were happy that our team managed to play without their shorts falling down. Quick…Ask any American not sitting next to a computer, ready to Google, what country even won the World Cup. 95% polled don’t even know. Uhhh…When you get the answer, tell me…uhhh..for research purposes…yeah, that’s it….research.

Soccer also has great fights. No, not by the players. They can’t punch their way out of a paper equipment bag. I’m talking about the fans. International soccer fans maim and kill each other even more than Philadelphia sports fans. That’s part of what makes soccer so exciting. When the score in nil-nil late in the game, there’ll have been at least forty seven fights in the stands…assuming the stands are still standing.

Anyway…Soccer WILL be big in the U.S. How do i know? Because my basketball/football-hypnotized son is now playing soccer via video games. Any sport that he video game-plays either is or becomes big in the U.S. He did it for the WWE (Uhhh…sorry NASCAR…my son ain’t playing “Left Turn Louie 2010″). It wasn’t 6 months ago that he (and I) was LHAO at soccer players for running around like flaming…uhhh…flamingos and flopping when breathed upon, claiming to be mortally wounded. Now, my son understands that soccer players are great actors…a skill to be admired…plus now he knows why his hero, Kobe Bryant likes soccer.

Soccer rules! Get involved…Grab some balls and kick’em!

One-Foot Juan: Special Guest SJ Contributing Author

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