When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes who were drinking away the afternoon in preparation for going to that evening's Arsenal game/riot. Take away their Cockney accents, and these working-class guys might as well have been a couple of Bubbas gearing up for the Alabama-Auburn game. They were, in a phrase, British rednecks. And this is who soccer fans are, everywhere in the world except among the college-educated American elite. In Rio or Rome, the soccer fan is a Regular José or a Regular Giuseppe. [...] By contrast, if an American is that kind of Regular Joe, he doesn't watch soccer. He watches the NFL or bass fishing tournaments or Ultimate Fighting. In an American context, avid soccer fandom is almost exclusively located among two groups of people (a) foreigners—God bless 'em—and (b) pretentious yuppie snobs. Which is to say, conservatives don't hate soccer because we hate brown people. We hate soccer because we hate liberals.
Robert Stacy McCainStichwörter: alabama liberals drinking rome football italy racism soccer conservatives 2008 london fishing foreigners 2010 american-football 2010-fifa-world-cup arsenal-fc auburn-alabama bass-fishing bubbas cockneys football-hooliganism liberal-elite nfl pubs rednecks rio-de-janeiro snobs soccer-in-the-united-states ultimate-fighting yobs yuppies
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.
Terry EagletonStichwörter: politics capitalism revolution football soccer social-change marxism oprah 2010 deepwater-horizon-oil-spill 2010-fifa-world-cup bolsheviks british-petroleum conformists david-beckham liverpool-fc opium-of-the-people tories
Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.
Simon KuperStichwörter: sports soccer fan
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.
Simon KuperIf TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.
Roberto FontanarrosaStichwörter: television soccer
For the record, the vuvuzela is not my enemy — and I even have, for reasons of self-defence installed a mini-vuvu with surprisingly powerful performance levels around my neck — though I miss hearing the crescendo of noise from the crowd that should accompany a promising attack on goal or a goal itself. Instead, of course, there is the monotone drone — a constant that belies the ebbs and flows of a game.
Richard CallandStichwörter: soccer atmosphere crowds 2010-fifa-world-cup association-football vuvuzelas
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
Phil WoosnamStichwörter: soccer
My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'.
He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.
Stichwörter: art soccer cricket
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.
Franklin FoerStichwörter: religion community soccer football-clubs
...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
Chuck KlostermanStichwörter: humor future dystopia sports soccer
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