I also love the crowd sounds in soccer stadiums stadiums
I totally agree that the shine is off the NFL due in large part to the politics. If I weren't so heavily invested in fantasy every week, I'm not sure I'd care about the rest of the games as much as I do... But as it stands, NFL Sundays remain sacred for me. I look forward to them.
For me it really boils down to not enough climaxes (that's what she said) in soccer... I so rarely feel fully satisfied after watching a soccer match. It's like I love the sport, but want a more concentrated version of it... I've often said that hockey perfected soccer - they added more speed, more physical aggression, condensed the playing surface and the end result is nonstop action.
I love my NFL football, my college Football, and my college basketball. But there is something to WC soccer that i also love and a lot of it is some of the stuff that Abe mentioned about no commercials, etc. The only thing that gets a little old is the flailing by some of the players but every sport has its actors. Cant bring myself to watch soccer outside of the WC but when the cup is going i have been rabid about it. I do hate though that i have to miss a lot of the action throughout the week but thank god for replays. At least Germany plays on Saturday this week.
Different teams each year.
It's all based on how you finished in your domestic league. The top team in each domestic league in the UEFA qualify for Champions the following year. They play a bunch of play-in rounds for winners from countries like Georgia and Lichtenstein and Gibraltar.
The top leagues get multiple teams. Premier League, La Liga (Spain) and Serie A (Italy) all get 4 teams, France and Russia get 3, and then a number of leagues get two. It's a fascinating structure to me, because we don't have anything like it in the states. Most of the top league teams go into group play, like the first round of the World Cup, and then the top qualifiers from that get to the knockout. City, United, Tottenham and Liverpool are the four Premier League teams for 2018-19.
Anyone play FIFA 18 on PS4?
I haven't got a FIFA game since 2013, but it was always a million times better than Madden.
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