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Futbol is exciting but...

...it will never catch on with the U.S. audience unless they change a few things.

• Offsides. In Football, offsides is a defensive penalty designed to keep the defense from stopping the offense from scoring too much. In soccer, offsides is a penalty that rewards the defense for being basically lazy, and prevents scoring. In baketball - a sport very analogous to soccer - they have no such rule. If you get behind the last line of the defense and score they put that on the highlight reels on ESPN...they don't penalze you for it.
  
  
• The clock. Americans have a cultural identification with watching the clock run down to zero to see the end of a game. In soccer, the clock just keeps on going for who knows how long. If there are stoppages in play, just stop the damn clock. It isn't that hard...we have the technology...
  
  
• Officiating. With one referee (and two linesmen who only handle offsides and calling out of bounds) a LOT of crap that goes on simply gets missed. Worse, half the time the idiot isn't even remotely in position to make a call, and ends up either making no call or the wrong one. They should go with 3-5 officials, more like basketball, and they would get considerably better officiated games (and a lot less dirty play).
  
  
• Pansy-asses. I have now watched two World Cup games, and I have seen more flopping dicks than at a nudist beach for retirees. These guys fall down and are 'injured' more than punters in Football. And, because of the officiating, they more often than not get the calls...even when they've not been touched. Meanwhile, guys will get creamed for real and no calls are made.