At least those people care enough to discuss with you as to why they are not in love with the sport that you are. If you are confused as to why soccer is not popular in the US, those might be the people to listen to. After watching a weekend of Zips final four soccer last year and not seeing a goal scored, and catching the last 3 minutes of the Paraguay "victory" this afternoon. My second biggest problem with the sport, is the way soccer ends a tie. I have to think that this HAS to bother real soccer fans (considering myself just an ignorant fan). I know from "playing" pickup soccer for ten minutes in the backyard with one of my friends that played high school soccer that I have no talent when it comes to dribbling or defending, he can run circles around me. I might, be able to get in shape enough to run the field the way players do, but I doubt it. I appreciate the talent that a soccer player has and don't for a second think I could be valuable to any 12 year old team. My feet don't work like that. BUT I'm sure I would have a fifty percent chance of scoring on a goalie with a free kick. I think it is a insult to the game to decide games on penalty kicks. What an awful way to decide a soccer game...a kickball contest. It takes so much talent to play 99 percent of the game and you decide the outcome of the game with the 1 percent that requires the least amount of talent. Why is it that NFL, MLB, NHL, NASCAR constantly talk about changing their rules and making the game better for the fan, but soccer-guy gets offended when you try to discuss a change? I don't get it.