<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GotSkillz52 @ Jun 24 2006, 02:32 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (chang @ Jun 24 2006, 03:54 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Unless at least hundreds of millions of Europeans/Mexicans/Africans/Brazilians/Asians come over, I don't see it realistically happening.Europeans consider themselves superior to America and already have the top soccer leagues in the world so why would they move over here. Now that the border is tightening (for now and probably forever if things in Congress fall into place like Bush wants), we won't get as many illegal Mexican immigrants that we are deporting anyway. There was never a real high immigration rate of Brazilians (except supermodels!) and I don't see it happening unless something terrible happens in their country and Asians have always been more of a basketball country hence their obsession with MJ, Kobe, and LeBron.BUT, if Team USA wants the country to pay more attention to soccer, they need to beat Brazil in the World Cup on American soil kinda like the "Miracle" hockey team that beat the Soviet Union at Lake Placid.</div>Why dont u name the whole world cuz thats what you just said. And you can add colombia, costa rica, argentina, uruguay, paraguay, ecuador, chile, peru, all the countries in central america. Plus all of these races are already in the US. Darwins theory of evolution will occur when offsprings are produced from all the mixed cultures in the world. Everyone in the world loves soccer and its unevitable until the US likes it. And im not talking about the players moving here. regular civilians wont stay in europe simply because they have a better soccer team lol. Asians and basketball? Asians are more interested in soccer and baseball than basketball. There's only like 1 or 2 asians in the NBA. you think that because of all the screaming Yao fans. Asians won the WBC. I doubt they would love the NBA more. Theres not a reason to. And brazilians arent only soccer players and super models buddy.</div>You know nothing about Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin's theory of evolution means natural selection, survival of the fittest, and adaptation. Darwin says that animals adapt to their environment and change their DNA to survive. The only application of Darwin to humans is that we evovled from monkeys and have made outselves smarter and better to be the top of the food chain. It has nothing to do with making offspring. Soccer sure as hell isn't a product of survival of the fittest.Yes, the US is considered a melting pot but we are still a good 70% (last census in 2000), white and around 13% African-American. Now, I'm not going to go around saying every white person or black person doesn't like soccer, but 90% of those people aren't a regular fan of soccer I bet. Now think about what white kids and black kids play since they constitute roughly 85% of the nation's population. What sport do a lot of white kids play? BASEBALL, most of my little league team was white, in fact, me and 1 black kid were the only non-white people. What sport do a lot of black kids play? BASKETBALL (my entire basketball team was black besides 3 players) and FOOTBALL. Hell, even take pro sports. Take away the recent Latin American immigrants from baseball. You get mostly white players (look at the WBC team). Now look at basketball and soccer, you can count on one hand how many white superstars there have been in the past 25 years not including international players. Really, only African immigrants (I know quite a few of them) and Mexican immigrants are really into soccer because they watched/played it in their motherland.This isn't late 1800-early 1900s anymore. There aren't huge waves of immigration of Europeans anymore. Are there European immigrants? Sure, but Europe has improved greatly over the past few decades most recently with the fall of the Berlin Wall.Have you ever been to Asia? I've travelled and vacationed in China, Japan, and Taiwan. From what I've seen in parks, schools, and building tops (yes, Japan and Taiwan have courts on the rooftops) more people play and pay attention to basketball (China) and baseball (more Japan with Ichiro, Hideki and their Japan Baseball League and Taiwan with Chien-Mien Wang, Chin-Hui Tsao and Taiwan Basbeall League). I didn't say a thing about Yao. Yeah, they love Yao but China is stuck on Michael Jordan still and now it's LeBron, Kobe, T-Mac. Wade has probably joined the gang too. There are more basketball courts in Japan and Taiwan cause they're smaller where land is scarce. They have a few soccer fields but definately hundreds more basketball courts. Asian countries even have a Asian Basketball Classic, I would know cause I was in Taiwan last summer. I have never seen in my life Asians playing soccer besides in the World Cup. In Japan, they have after school clubs but the soccer team of the school I visited after practice even said themselves that soccer isn't as popular as baseball where Japan had major success or basketball where the first Japanese player entered the NBA in 5'8" (average for an Asian) Yuta Tabuse. Taiwan loves the New York Yankees, mainly because of Chien-Mien Wang. China has Yao in the NBA like you said. Yao is a national hero. There's no famous Asian in any soccer league (I mean big names like Ronaldinho, Beckham, Ronaldo). They have no role model or national hero that kids want to emulate.Why is soccer so popular as a little league sport? I honestly don't know but when you look in high schools, there sure aren't the hundreds of kids lining up to play soccer. Movies always talk about taking their kids to the soccer game and of course the stereotypical "soccer mom".And just cause most of Team USA is white doesn't mean that a bunch of white people play soccer. It's far from it.Are there people that break the generalization? Of course but thats hardly a big enough group to say America is or will be a soccer country in the near future.
We suck at it. I can't wait until the World Cup is over so I don't have to deal with my dad watching it in spanish and getting made at me for going GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!
