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Reading this makes anyone outside the US notice right away that americans just don’t get football (or as americans call it, soccer). First off, you can see right away that the author is clearly basing his “fixes” on USA’s lost final of the Women’s World Cup, he’s sad because it came down to “gambling” (penalties).
I’d say penalties are not a gamble, they require skill both from the shooter and the goalkeeper. Even if I considered them as gambling, if you are the superior team I see it as the prize you pay for not being able to score, if you are the inferior team you get a chance to win because you prevented the other team from scoring, and if they were equally good, then it’s time to play another game, penalties.
Like Martin Pilkington said, there have been many ways that ties get resolved: golden goal, silver goal, penalties, replays. Today penalties is the most popular, it’s not hard to know why, that’s what most people like all over the world.
They only thing I would partially agree with is “fix” number 3. If there is one thing I don’t like about football, it’s that players go down all the time. I don’t know what’s the best solution for this, because you don’t want to have injuries all the time.
And finally, the footnote.
Oh, yeah, we’re all calling it soccer now. You can call it whatever you want in your crazy gibberish language, but in English, we’re settling on “soccer”.
Oh boy, so many things wrong here. It so happens that the country with the best league in the world speaks English, and that’s England, and they call it football. On the other hand, only 5 countries in the whole world call it Soccer, what the US calls football, is called “american football”. And last, why the hell is american football even called football if they barely use their FOOT to interact with the BALL?
