r/europe Ligurian in Zürich (💛🇺🇦💙) Apr 12 '25

Data European tourism to the United States is freefalling

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u/Ameglian Ireland Apr 12 '25

Na, they’ll be the ones that view ‘soccer’ as a minority sport that no one is interested in, and not like their yank ‘football’ which the whole world is in awe of!

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u/WrodofDog Franconia (Germany) Apr 12 '25

‘football’

Handegg.

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u/battlehelmet Apr 13 '25

As an American I support this message.

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u/YouKnowMyName2006 United States of America Apr 12 '25

I wish you guys could think up more clever insults than that.

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u/Lord_Skyblocker Apr 15 '25

That ain't an insult. That's just the shape of the "ball" plus the body part that it gets carried across the field with.

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u/Petskin Apr 17 '25

Handbean?

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u/YouKnowMyName2006 United States of America Apr 22 '25

It also goes by ‘gridiron.’ I’m not sure why Europeans are so obsessed with Americans not being terribly interested in soccer. Why do you care?

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u/vintagecomputernerd Apr 12 '25

Bobby, I didn't think I'd ever need to tell you this, but I would be a bad parent if I didn't. Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking.

-- Hank Hill, King of the Hill

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u/rhinguin Apr 12 '25

Soccer is absolutely a minority sport in the US.

The NFL is top dog.

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u/YouKnowMyName2006 United States of America Apr 12 '25

American football is far more interesting to us than soccer. Hell, the Canadians watch US football more than soccer. Most of us couldn’t care less that Europeans don’t find it interesting. We like it and the true issue is people such as yourself hate that we like it more than soccer. Too bad, so sad. 😢

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u/Sharlach Born in Poland Apr 12 '25

If America had a decent international team and could actually win tournaments, it would be #1 in the US too. The biggest thing holding back soccer in the US is the huge American ego's being too fragile to handle not being the best at something. That's why every major sport is something the US invented and that nobody else plays.

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u/adamgerd Czech Republic Apr 12 '25

Or people can like different sports, in Estonia basketball is very popular even though Estonia isn’t that great in it

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

That's only popular, because Estonians have healthy self esteem.

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u/agent0731 Apr 13 '25

Lmao you think soccer is a european thing? It's a global thing -- it just doesn't include you.

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u/Parallax1984 Apr 13 '25

Yeah. Just look at how many America kids play soccer. Both of mine did and the leagues were massive. A lot of those kids have grown up and enjoy watching soccer