Do you believe that it is the American commentaters that are destroying the pleasure of people enjoying the?

Question

games? I think more Americans would grow to love/understand soccer if the broadcasters knew what they were doing.

Answer 1

Need I say more...

June 16, 2006 - The Brits in the packed crowd at Floyds in Brooklyn, N.Y., could hardly contain their laughter. As England battled Paraguay in their opening World Cup match at 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning, the tension inside the pub was building as fans downed pint after pint. But despite the
action on the screen, the best ABCs commentator could do was throw out useless bits of trivia. Gary Neville was best man at David Beckhams wedding, apparently.
Prince William deserved a mention, as well, for some peculiar reason. There were plenty of cliches, too. England striker Peter Crouch, at 6 foot 7, is a
big man.There was some mention of him being the jewel in Englands crown, whatever that meant. The jewel in the commentators crown, on the other hand,
was this absurd analysis: the England team feels like they're playing at home because Germany is just a short flight away from London.
What happened to the passion of the beautiful game? The tension of the
buildup, the appreciation of the perfect pass, the cringing of the
crowd as
a striker dives in the box? Fuggetaboutit. The World Cup in America is
a different world altogether, full of unnecessary acronyms like P.K.s (penalty
kicks), graphics that pop up out of nowhere to block out inspirational
dashes towards the goal, and a barrage of useless trivia intended to
appeal
to those number crunchers posing as sports fans who follow ERAs and
boring
batting averages. Most Americans seem to enjoy the spectacle, but not
the
game itself. Such is the tragedy of watching the World Cup in America.

Football in America is something of a paradox. While most Americans
dont get
the globes favorite game, roughly 20 million Yanks play it. Sadly, most
of
them are suburban kids and once they reach the age where they can play
competitive American football and basketball, they seem to repress
those
fond memories of kicking a rotund object into a net. And despite the
influx
of immigrants from footballing nations (a few ESPN-like stats: there
are
more than 40 million Latinos and over a million Koreans in this
country, and
close to a million Americans of Polish descent in New York alone) city
pickup games are still found mostly in untended parks a world away from
those well-groomed Little League infields.

Answer 2

I do think that the colour commentary does add to the value of what is preseneted as far as associate football is concerned. They present it like it is a baseball game, when really should just leave the commentary to absolute minimum. Let the television viewer hear the game, the fans in the stadium, get a sense of the atmosphere.

But I do think that the product it self has to be cleaned up too.
Diving and disent, FIFA has to clean up the rolling around and stop the acting, which is the one thing that drives Americans and football purists nuts.

clean up the game and more Americans will become fans.
it is the beautiful game.

Answer 3

yeah the commentary is usually annoying because its all opinion crap.
plus , americans are too caught up in bs sports like football to appreciate the real futbol aka soccer.

Answer 4

i havent watched the world cup games but i can imagine what your talking about i watch the NFL and the comentators in general have alot of ignorance on a game they actually know and some of them are ex players.. so i am inclined to agree yes!!!!

Answer 5

It doesn't tend to bother me much. I mainly zone it out anyways.

I mean, it's playing on the Spanish channels as well. You could always try there.

Answer 6

It would help if they quit referring to a goal as a touchdown