I think I have answered this many times so I don't even know if I can remember all the things I dislike about it but...
The flaws with soccer are in no particular order:
1. Lack of scoring, It's not like I don't enjoy a low scoring defensive battle in sports, but with soccer it's usually so low that luck plays too much a part of each game where a lucky bounce of the ball could decide the entire game. In American football some lucky occurrence happens and you’re only down one score with a chance to come back. In basketball if you totally blow it on a play it only cost you 4 points at the most. In hockey there is still a good chance to come back, the same with baseball.
How can you say you like hockey and baseball more than football because they score more. Both these often have very low scoring games in that case. Often too.
2. Lack of physical contact, I don't like a sport where you’re penalized for barely breathing on an opponent. I thought basketball was bad but because of the lack of physical contact allowed soccer has developed the best floppers in the world. If it got any worse it would be like having a bunch of ballerinas out there with a ball...oh wait in that they have to tough and lift each other at least.
Really need to see the British version of football. Even thought FIFA have tried to make it into a no tackling sport. British football still is fast and physical compared to any other football in the world. Yes you still get divers and cheats. But they don't always get the foul to them here. As they just get ignored half the time.
3. They go backwards almost as much as they go forward. I don't want to see something where they pass forward, then back, then back some more, then forward, then back, then the other team gets possession somehow and it all starts over again. I don't mind smart strategic movement in sports, but when it gets to be a glorified game of keep away for long stretches then it goes to far.
Same as most other sports in the world especially basketball.
4. Ties, sports should do everything reasonable to eliminate ties that they can. I want to see a definite winner. Who wants to go out and watch something where you know you might be witness to the mighty 0-0 or 1-1 tie. Sure other sports have ties but they are more rare. In American football were lucky to get a couple ties in an entire decade of hundreds and hundreds of games. You can't tie at all in baseball and in it's over 130+ years of history I can only really think of 2 games where it happened, both infamous and one was an exhibition. Even hockey has taken ***** to cut down on ties.
Now this is a uneducated answer. As it depends what type of competition your playing. Because in cup football you can't have a draw. League football works on a point system of 3 points for the win, 1 point for the draw. So most go for the win, but there is times when they play for the draw due to only needing the one point. But more often than not you'll find that doesn't work.
5. Because of the way the game is structured there is just too many times where teams will screw around for most of the game because it might benefit them, like scoring early and doing nothing but going on defense the rest of the game hoping it will hold up. I can't imagine teams in other sports getting away with that kind of mindset and having it work. There are times where teams will town it down in other sports but those are late in the game when they are way ahead and have dominated to that point. I can't imagine in American football going ahead by a touchdown or in basketball going up by ten points in the first quarter and just saying, "Well were going to basically not try to do anything but keep the other team from scoring the rest of the game".
You've seen Italian football then.
Yes this has happened and then again it becomes interesting to see if they can break the other team down. But as you'll find because a team is defending a lead it doesn't mean they've stopped attacking. As they will try to steal another goal on the counter ******.
6. The way the offsides rule is structured in soccer is dumb, as opposed to the way it works in hockey. Just another opportunity to have plays were people screw around, and maybe if they changed it scoring would go up.
The goalkeeper and one defensive player must be between or level with you when the ball is kicked. Unless for some strange reason the goalkeeper is up field and then you still must be level or behind a defender. Unless your in your own half when the ball is kicked by your player and you can't be offside. That is unless they are behind the ball when it's played and they still can't be offside.
This was brought in to stop what is known as "the **** liner". Someone would would just stand with the goalkeeper the whole game just waiting for someone to pass the ball to him. Imagine if you got half a team doing that.
7. The way the game is timed doesn’t make sense. The clock keeps going when it shouldn't, and even worse when extra time is added you don't even know when it's going to end. It would be like if we covered up the clocks here and didn't tell anybody even the teams how much time they had left just for fun.
You really shouldn't go there when such as American Football is a hour long. But the game last between 3 to 4 hours, WTF. Same goes for baseball and also basketball and hockey both have overtime. Football is 90 minutes long, 45 minutes in each half, with injury time that is shown just before the end of the game is up. This is usually between one and four minutes. Cup football could have extra time that is half a hour long. 15 minutes each way. Whoops football has a better time structure than American football :o
8. To be honest soccer players run a lot and need a lot of endurance, and maybe need to aim good...and that's about it. They don't fit my ideal of what an athlete should be like. To me an ideal athlete needs to be an physical specimen. (outside of any mental aspects to the game) They need to have a great combination of strength, explosive strength, endurance, speed, explosive speed, pain tolerance, agility, dexterity, hand eye coordination, and resistance to injury. In other sports, sure there will be people that are out of shape and do well from time to time, or have some other shortcoming but they usually give up an advantage to people that are better conditioned all things being equal. Even a lot of people built for speed will still have a nice build, like NFL wide receivers. I **** to say this but in soccer too many people look like they have a physique of a 10-year-old girl. There are professional bowlers that look like they could break David Beckham. Maybe for marathon runners I could see it, but even a lot of long distance runners look better.
LOL!
You've just described everything a footballer has in the highlighted bit.
Now if you want to pick at sports in this way...
Basketball - all running and nothing else. No skill, no contact, etc.
American Football - supposed to be a physical game of pace, power and speed. Have loads of padding so like girls. Really need to look at rugby to see what a physical contact game is that has no padding. Speed, can't be that fast with all that stopping and starting and padding.
Do I need to continue?
I just don't think people over here are accustomed to skinny people running around in circles for an hour and a half hoping to see them score a couple of times maybe.
You really need to know a sport before you comment on it D-rock.
As you've just proven the only real football you've ever seen is MLS. Which is a very low level football. As you really don't seem to understand it.
When Americans do there usual pull down of football. My sole answer goes along these lines...
Why is it the most popular sport in the world?
Watched by millions of people from all countries in the world?
That has a World Cup that is actually competed for by more than one or two countries.
I'll leave you with this question to see how much you know about football....
Who invented football and who took it round the world? (We are looking for two countries here)