Hi everyone! I'm Lauren from Peas in a Pod! And it's finally the World Cup!
Yay?
So I know that the World Cup is really important to a lot of people.
And they take a lot of national pride in it and people get really excited about it and really into it!
Um, so just for an example a couple days ago at work
I was talking to one of my co-workers and she was watching the game
on her computer while she was working.
So then I ask, "Oh, how's America doing?"
So that was a little bit awkward when she just kind of looked at me was like, "Oh... America didn't make it..."
And that kinda just demonstrates how little I know about the World Cup and I think sort of how little most
Americans know about the World Cup, it's not something that's....you know, really on our periphery.
But I know that a lot of people are really confused as to why Americans just aren't into it.
Soccer really isn't an '"American Made" sport.
So what I mean by that is that Americans like to have a sense of ownership
in the sports that are really big in our country. So baseball, football, basketball...
Like these aren't sports that we necessarily Invented, but they are sports that
we've kind of modified into the modern version that they are now.
And we don't really have that connection with soccer. Soccer came up completely independently of Americans.
So there isn't that, you know, that cultural connection.
There isn't that history behind it. And I think that's part of the reason why
Americans kind of feel disconnected from soccer in general.
Soccer tends to be kinda slow.
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So you can go the entire match and it might end in a tie or it might end,
you know, zero to one and it just seems like a lot of time and energy being invested in watching a game where
the winning score might literally just be one point. So I think Americans don't really have the patience for that.
And I think that that's part of the reason why Americans just aren't really into soccer.
There aren't really any big American soccer stars.
So, you know, famous athletes like Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan. Now, I don't like baseball. I don't like basketball
But I know who both of those people are, you know, I would recognize them in a picture.
I would be able to tell you random facts about their lives and that's just from, you know, being an American
living here in the culture. You kind of pick up those things because those people
are kind of legends. You know, they're larger than life.
And we just don't have any soccer stars that have quite reached that. So maybe one day.
You know, maybe if we have a soccer star who is just amazing
Maybe they'll be able to kind of energize American soccer fans,
but at the moment we just don't have the star power.
One thing that you see in soccer a lot is people will fake injuries.
Faking injuries is something that I think doesn't really.... I think a lot of Americans just don't like it.
And I think part of it is because we do have a lot of really heavy contact sports.
So we have American football. We have hockey.
And these are sports that if people get hurt they are seriously hurt. It's not something that you fake.
And I think that it annoys Americans when, you know, the referee has to spend a lot of time
and slow down the entire game because someone is faking an injury, when in reality they're completely fine.
A really big reason why Americans aren't into soccer is that we're not very good at it.
Um as,
you know, shown by the fact that we didn't even make it into the World Cup this year. So yeah Americans
tend to really like to win things and we don't really win at soccer
Or at least the men don't win at soccer because, when it comes to women's soccer,
Americans are crushing it!
The women's soccer team is the most successful women's team internationally.
We have four gold medals and three World Cups!
Unfortunately, they don't really get, you know, the attention that they deserve
or the respect that they deserve.
So I've just spent a lot of time explaining why soccer isn't popular in America, but having said that,
soccer is more popular in America now than at any other point in American history.
Also America has put in a joint bid to host the 2022
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World Cup with Canada and Mexico.
So maybe if America hosts it they will kind of start to pay more attention to the World Cup
and maybe you'll see some real energy from American fans.
So I hope that this video has helped to explain why Americans aren't
all that enthusiastic about the World Cup.
But please don't let that discourage you from talking to your American friends about the World Cup!
At the very least we will enjoy your enthusiasm for the game.
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I've been Lauren with Peas in a Pod, until next time!
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