Soccer Motivation

the shin pads are pretty kick-ass

Soccer? Pssht it's Football :)

Bloody brits for calling soccer football, even though there more correct than americans for calling rugby football,
Fuck over here we call soccer soccer and football football.

Mr. Anonymous, may I remind you that this 'American football' doesn't really involve that much use of feet? And may I also remind you that 'American football' has it origins in Britain? Also, REAL football, or a game very similar to it, was played by the ancient Greeks, while the first games to resemble modern 'American football' weren't played until the 19th century?

Yeah, it's called football. The shin pads on the other hand are the manliest of manly shin pads...

I disagree, (field) hockey shin pads are definitely the most manly of shin pads!

I have a little fun fact for you. Soccer is actually a British term for the game. If you take a look on the wiki page for Association Football, you'll see the origin of it under Etymology.

The shin pads are pretty cool though.

To be specific, I played line in AMERICAN football. They had some pretty badass forearm pads too. Looked kind of like shin pads only for your arm

Languages change. I hate when people bitch about "IT'S CALLED FOOTBALL". Fuck you, stop hopping on the band-wagon just to be a jackass. You live in America, deal with it.

Languages adjust with territories, you mean... Americans call it soccer because we have "American football"... it's not like the entire world-wide English language now refers to it as soccer. ;)

However, I agree with the bandwagoning... unless we're not discussing an American team in the world cup, and then I think it's completely understandable to refer to the game as football, since those teams likely would. *Shrug*

....can I call it kick sphere?

kicksphere works with me. Kicksphere it is!

I still can't figure out why americans don't like soccer that much, it's the best sport ever invented and all the "american" sports just sucks ass, i'm sorry, i have to say this as a sportlover.

BTW, cheerleaders are annoying and unnecessary

Soccer WAS the best sport around... then it evolved into the defensive game we see today where it resembles my lovelife... No one fucking scores, and if someone does, it's a huge deal or someone faked an injury for sympathy. (Wait, that metaphore sounds wrong...)

Anyways, you're calling hot half naked women dancing around annoying? O.o

(as a note: I aint american, I watch a real sport... AFL)

Damn straight AFL is awesome, but it can only be improved by the addition half naked women with daddy issues on those truckers brand caffeine pills.

Also AFL, rugby league and union are the only REAL contact sports because that don't allow so much protection that you look like the Michelin man. But that being said shin pads are pretty awesome!

I'll pay rugby, both league and union, and football(soccer) as being awesome, but AFL? Blasphemy. And rugby has cheerleaders, we just don't give a shit about them so they aren't shown on TV or given field time.

Alot of sports have cool pads. I'd make my own international sports game with all the padding other sports have and make millions having people do whatever it is they would do in a sport with so much padding.

Baseball shin pads are way cooler. Y'know, the kind Scorpion and Sub-Zero wear

Yeah, but only catchers get to wear them. And who wants that?

Baseball isn't a real sport. Any person who can grab a bat or get into steroids can play it.

i guess it sux that u cant grab a bat huh ricardo? then ud be making millions of dollars

I've never played it before but only an idiot would call this football the goalie uses his hands. Silly unamericans.

Only an idiot would call american football "football"; they use their hands most of the time, only the kicker uses his feet to contact the ball; they should call it "use-your-hands-and-tackle-guys-like-in-rugby-but-pussier-because-they-use-too-much-protection ball"; even though I like it, I consider it stupid to call it football

Ricardo, all I can say is, don't go to Australia. Rugby union, rugby league and Aussie rules are all called football despite being heavily hand-orientated. In fact, pretty much the only sport not called football is "soccer".

Okay, I like use-your-hands-and-tackle-guys-like-in-rugby-but-pussier-because-they-use-too-much-protection-ball. And soccer (or football ourside america) is now Kicksphere.

I guess its gonna take the canadian to say this:
Hockey pads are the motherfucking best. You can be bowled over at 20mhp by a massive guy and barely feel it. And the goalie? He has the BEST motherfucking shin pads of all. You can stop a bullet with those things. Soccer shinpads seem so.. shitty all of a sudden.

Shin pads are the manliest thing a man could wear to express his manliness

Cricket pads would be the coolest, except that that would mean that you'd actually have to play cricket, which detracts from their coolness.
Also I'm on the football, not soccer, side of things. but maybe thats just because I'm South African and not American

omg dude that's hilarious :P

soccer is for homo's, you should of played basketball, i mean whats better, kicking ball then parading around half naked, or leep 10 feet into the air and crash the back boards i mean seriously think about it

because being touched and mobbed by sweaty men to take a ball isnt gay either

ya see thats why is a non contact sport.....

Grug, take your incompetence somewhere else. It seems as though you've never actually watched and paid attention to a good soccer game, or you'd know that there's nothing better than watching someone rocket a ball from midfield past a network of defenders and into the back of the net. Also, you seem to be overlooking the global influence that soccer has. I mean, I don't recall basketball ever bringing about a cease-fire in a frickin' civil war. Think about THAT.

(P.S. - I'm an American.)

Kickboxing shinguards are way better then all these other shinguards, what other sport allows you to kick someone in the head without getting a "yellow card" or something equally as dumb.

seriously i cant stand to watch a sport for 3 hours straight and then see it end in a 0-0 tie. they should put more hitting, more points, and better action. o wait that's called american football

or basketball, soccer is much to slow

Erm before you start ranting make sure you get everything right. Football (now Kicksphere) is 90 minutes long in game play. American football (Or more commonly, use-your-hands-and-tackle-guys-like-in-rugby-but-pussier-because-they-use-too-much-protection-ball.) Runs way longer than a kicksphere game. Only kicksphere could make a cease fire in WW2 and capture the hearts of countries across the globe. And by the way use-your-hands-and-tackle-guys-like-in-rugby-but-pussier-because-they-use-too-much-protection-ball, is a pussier version of rugby. Seriously I get that it takes a hell of a lot of training but rugby is the manliest sport.

Yes I am English. You can call your 'football' whatever you want, but never compare our game to yours and then say it sucks.

Sorry for posting as anonymous and getting ranty but hey a girls got to protect her country right ;)

Hear hear, Anon!

Admit it, the only reason you made this was to cause an internet war about soccer/football!

I feel like the most popular sport by far would be internet arguing.

Everyone knows the best pads ever are lacrosse gloves. You can look totally b.a and pretend you're a awesome robot all at once

Sorry about the annonymousity, i don't tweet

but...why do you call it football, when it could be "handball"?
and why american?
it is canadian too?

It should be "United Statian handball"
LOL! :D

And I liked my tae kwon do's shin pads better ^^

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You're wrong on both sides of the fence, just so you know.

The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863 and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford "-er" abbreviation of the word "association".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_Football

I find it weird how American's use 'world' a lot, i.e 'world series' when only American teams play the game. How'd that come about?

I don't tweet, so I'm not a twat, hence the anonymity.

I play football, and I've always found hockey (not ice hockey) shin pads to be much better as they have the extended padding for your ankles, and, [particularly since most of the guys I play with are now over 30 and that bit slower, it makes a huge difference.

And yes, I'm a Brit.