And so I write to you this little counter-argument to most of your baseless facts.

I can only hope that

you read through it all and get a slightly new perspective on a beautiful game called Football.

"(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw
bricks and drop fly balls -- all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing
alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.In
soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no
accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed
women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."
Individual achievements work hand in hand in giving your whole team worldwide glory and fame.
Thats why we have players like Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldinho and even the Brazilian Ronaldo who
were all great individual players but whose skill also brought world wide recognition to not only
themselves but their country as well.
In Football players can fumble simple passes or miss scoring the easiest of goals or even score an
own goal, all in front of a very large crowd. There is also individual glory in a team-oriented game,
where players like Crisitano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have scored brilliant individual solo goals and
single handedly won matches(Have the names Maradona and Pele ring any bell?).
In football if a player screws the game up by earning a red card for himself or getting dismissed from
the game, he is internationally panned by the whole bloody world as well his own team mates!

In Football, there are indeed Heroes and Losers. But due to the beautiful nature of the sports which
mirrors humanism, nobody blames any single individual for long to intentionally make him feel hurt
when he is already hurt because of repentance on his own actions.
I dont know how you stereotype some women as soccer moms but Im reasonably sure it is not
because of the game rather more to do with your biased nature.



Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a
while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep."
Yes there are indeed MVPs in football. To name a few current MVP contenders Messi(Argentina) ,
Neymar(Brazil) , Ochoa (Mexico), Mueller (Germany), Arjen Robben (Netherlands), Luis Suarez
(Uruguay) etc.
Only a person who doesnt know how football is played will ignorantly judge that everyone just runs
up and down the field when in fact in every field sports, a player runs up and down the field but
with certain intention (American Football included). In football, there is this thing called Passing
and Ball possession and it requires a certain skill to keep passing the ball accurately which involves
running. And footballs dont accidently go in the goal, because there is a certain( infact, lot of)
effort required to get it past the keeper and the defenders in the first place.


(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that
girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.
I bet even the National US womens football team in its peak glory would not be able to defeat the
German U-16 National Boys team.
Football is more about combining speed, agility, presence of mind, technical skills, and physicality. As
per Biology, girls are physically less robust than boys and hence if we make a skilled girls team play
against an equally skilled boys team, it wont be unusual to see the boys team win with a very big
margin at the end of the day.
It is similar to why Men are not allowed to participate against Women in Mixed Martial Arts.


(3) No other "sport" ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the
freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: "2nd period, 11 minutes left,
score: 0:0." Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: "1st period, 8
minutes left, score: 0:0." If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina
vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he'd still be alive, although bored.
Scoreless ties only end when two teams are equally matched in skill, perseverance, determination
and unwilling to lose the match. In competitive matches there is a reason why a game goes to
Penalty shootouts. Also the defenders in football arent as single minded as Defensive Full Backs in
American Football. They have to make sure that they stay in formation, also while marking certain
talented strikers and attacking wingers of the opposition team, all the while keeping an eye on the
events transpiring on the other side of the field, and putting their body on the line to stop the ball
going in their goal.
There are times when both teams use a defensive approach to the game but when a team is in the
mood to attack, it is usually the opposition defenders and a goalkeeper who stand between them
and the goal.
And Im sure you havent even watched a match between Argentina and Brazil, because it will likely
be a goal fest since they are the two most dominant football teams on the planet.

Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties -- and it's a lot harder to
score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.
It shouldnt be called football because you are carrying a leather rugby in your hands for 80% of the
game and only kicking it very rarely.
Also American Rugby isnt designed to have scoreless ties. If you were more intelligent minded about
the technical aspects of the different sports, youd have known.
Also, Americans favour their males to be alpha jocks in only the physical aspects, but they forget to
make them great technically gifted players, or players with foresight and good skill hence why the US
just scraped past the group stages while even a small country like Holland dominated their group by
combining physical play, individual skill, good strategy and keeping dominant possession of the ball.


(4) The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most
sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England
in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their
national game.
Pablo Escobar of Colombia scored an own goal in the 1994 WC and shamed not only himself but his
whole nation. When he returned to his home country, he was promptly shot dead in a bar.
Now this type of acts should be strictly barred from tarnishing a beautiful game like football, but it
also shows that personal humiliation is an important aspect of football because the act of being
humiliated transcends not only the player but to his team as well as his country or professional club.
Also ironically, England was losing those two world games had the Russians and US not intervened
against the Germans.
Talking about major injuries, there are football players (Eduardo and Aaron Ramsey) who have
suffered compound fractures to their legs in football and recovered fast enough to play again within
a relatively short span of time compared to an American Athlete whose career may have ended in
the same instance. In every sport there is a chance of a major injury waiting to happen.
Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or
four fights a game -- and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles
per hour..
The concept of personal disgrace shouldnt make a sport more appealing. Thats why we dont get
to see Fight to Death real life Gladiator matches.
In Hockey the players wear adequate protection to shield themselves from the puck and other
players even the same happens in American Football, so your stance on them being more physical
oriented is nullified by the use of protective padding.
After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a
ribbon and a juice box
I dont suppose you are serious here, but if you are? Then if someone wanted to commit suicide,
theyd jump off from the height of your blind ego and ignorance level to that of your sane
reasoning and logical thinking capabilities.

(5) You can't use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.)
What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our
hands can hold things. Here's a great idea: Let's create a game where you're not allowed to use
them!
Yes because its against the rules in soccer for anyone except the goalie to catch the ball when the
ball is in play. There is an exception for an outside throw where any player can throw the ball but the
player receiving cannot touch the ball with his hands. It sometimes evokes a penalty or a yellow/red
card if seen by the refree.
Also that is also the reason why soccers actual and original name is Football.
(6) I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are
the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of
New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending
women's basketball is fascinating.
I resent you for defaming a beautiful sport in your half-baked assumptions and outright lies.
Soccer is catching on in America only because it is a world wide sport and also because the people
are open minded to try out new things in life.


I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.

Note down how much ever you want, but a sport like soccer is as exciting and unpredictable as your
American Rugby or Basketball.
Infact Basketball is essentially like football with a hands only and no legs approach but with less
players. I dont see you badmouthing that game because unfortunately you did not have the
common sense to work it all out.

(7) It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love
soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans.
They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.
Its not that foreign or from another world. Its a sport invented by the English and perfected by the
whole world. Rugby was again invented by the British and American Football/Rugby is slight
deviation from mainstream Rugby.
African Americans are constantly exposed to Basketball and American football from a young age
hence why they have a liking to those sports because it suits their physique and the need to hurt
people legally.
Normal Africans are also as physically able as their brethren in American, but are exposed more to
soccer from a young age, hence why Nigeria qualified in a much better way than you Americans.

(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the
metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't
committing mass murder by guillotine.
Liberals adore metric system because the whole world except two countries practises it. Also
because if the US adopted the metric system, it would make the job easier for their engineers
working with engineers of other countries to adapt easily to get more beneficial results for
everybody.
While you pride yourself (in ignorance) of your stance on not operating the metric system, other
competent professionals curse you endlessly day and night because it increases their work load.

Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and
Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far
Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.
This is just verbal diarrhea so Ill just ignore it.

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements
everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of
his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2
centimeters?
Because if the whole damn world adjusted to it...I dont see why Americans are so adamant on not
adopting it?!
Also a mans thumb may vary from person to person so the same can be said of a foot and the so can
the same be applied for his belt. Easy to visualize in ones mind but hard to put it to work in real life
and in complex engineering stuff which relies on precise marking and length adjustments.

(9) Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup,"
and we had to hear -- again -- about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."

If you were any good at it, it sure as hell wouldve been your favourite sport by now. But since this is
a case of sour grapes with certain people like you, you ignorantly wave off the complexity and
beauty of the game.

The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This
beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China)
on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)
Any person who is hard core football fan will say that watching a womens game is like watching
football in slow motion. Even though the US womens team is dominant in football for its gender, it
is still eons behind any competent lower ranked mens football team.
Hell Ill wager that if we were to make the US Mens Reserve team against the WC winning female
team, the Mens team will have a higher probability of success and will eventually defeat the
Womens team because of a huge gap in physical attributes.

Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers;
NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million
viewers.

Because, American football and NFL are quite dominant in just the USofA. Im sure for a thinking
man, it isnt that hard to figure out.



Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently
camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news
coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.
A true football fan wouldnt care about what Beckham does in his private life, but rather marvel at
the way he kicks the ball in freekicks and manages to bend it in mid-air with his technique.
Something which he can still do today as well.

If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch
effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-
grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning
English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.
And how is there any credibility in your promise? Give us proof of it and only will then world take
your word for its worth.
Only if all the beautiful and good looking people in the world like you had equally strong brains.
Have a great day Mrs.Coulter!
-Rajendra