Diego Alonso Virgues (Convospeak) | Why Americans Should Love Soccer and What Soccer Has Taught Me About Life @ConvoSpeak | Uploaded September 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Have you ever wondered why Americans hate soccer? Well today’s video I am going to touch on my experience with soccer and some theories why the sport is not so popular in the US.
We will explore why soccer is important for the world, and my experience with soccer. My hope is this will shed some light on why Hispanics love soccer and give you 1000 reasons why you should too.
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So the question we face today is why Americans should love soccer? Well, as a person who is crazy about soccer I can tell you many things. Soccer has first of all taught me so much about life, it has taught me about geography and other cultures, and it has encouraged me to love languages. In this video we will talk about passion about polyglot soccer players, very personal stories and much much
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Transcript
What soccer has done taught me about life and why Americans should love soccer.
SO I have been waiting to make this video for a while. I am going to talk about my real number one passion which is not language and cultures but it is for sure related to SOCCER. Im going to call it soccer because I am in the US, and that’s just how people call it here. Because they have a sport you play with your hands that is called Football ??? I mean you only kick once….????
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So today I am going to first tell you why soccer matters so much to me, and then why I think it is not as huge here as it is in Colombia or other counties
So three reasons soccer has changed my life are
It has taught me geography and about the world
As a fervent fan of my national team, Colombia. I got to see them play almost all the countries in the world. And like that I learned so much about Iran, paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago, etc etc etc. At least I found out about the existence of these
countries,and sometimes I would learn more, like for example. Last world cup I learned so much about the history of croatia, I learned that Paraguayans also speak Guarani… Then by moving to the US, one of the most diverse countries in the world all of this knowledge came really handy when meeting people from all over the world. I at least knew where their country was, maybe one of their most famous players or maybe even more.
Soccer super stars inspired me to be multilingual
Another thing is the role models that you have… Some super star athletes can be a mess including soccer players, but a lot of the most famous soccer players play in Europe where they are forced to learn multiple languages to play on different teams. You know Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal has learned English in Manchester United, Spanish in Real Madrid and now Italian in Juventus. So your idols can be arrogant and everything but almost all of them are multilingual… and because you follow these athletes you get inspired. I always thought learning languages was cool because maybe I could go play for Newcastle in England and then be transferred to the Olympique de Lyon.
The last thing is soccer has connected me to a global community and connected me to friends all around the world.
I owe most of my best friends to soccer. In Colombia, my friends was my neighborhood or school soccer team, and that was it. We spend so many times in the field, faced the same challenges together and overcame them as a team.
Then when I came to Metro detroit and went to Michigan state university I met people from all over, from India, Senegal, France, Mexico, Saudi Arabia,US and sometimes we didn’t even speak the same language but we played soccer. And wherever I go with me, I know I can connect with a lot of people because of soccer.
Now with all of these things… It was a bit hard for me when I came to the US because even though there are a lot of people who are very passionate about soccer it is not nearly as much as other places
There are many many arguments about it. Some people say is that it is because Americans are not the best at it and they are used being the best at all of their sports…
But I don’t understand this. America is the best. Have you seen Megan Rapino, Alex Morgan? Us has dominated women soccer since forever.
Others say that the US just doesn’t follow the bandwagon. They are different. They used the imperial measuring system instead of metric, you know. I do believe there might be some true to this.
... (reach out to request full transcript)
Have you ever wondered why Americans hate soccer? Well today’s video I am going to touch on my experience with soccer and some theories why the sport is not so popular in the US.
We will explore why soccer is important for the world, and my experience with soccer. My hope is this will shed some light on why Hispanics love soccer and give you 1000 reasons why you should too.
Watch next
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youtu.be/PtwojgITlWI
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youtu.be/15RTxYIXk-E
So the question we face today is why Americans should love soccer? Well, as a person who is crazy about soccer I can tell you many things. Soccer has first of all taught me so much about life, it has taught me about geography and other cultures, and it has encouraged me to love languages. In this video we will talk about passion about polyglot soccer players, very personal stories and much much
We are convospeak, a channel about Hispanic culture and Spanish language. Subscribe right now.
Transcript
What soccer has done taught me about life and why Americans should love soccer.
SO I have been waiting to make this video for a while. I am going to talk about my real number one passion which is not language and cultures but it is for sure related to SOCCER. Im going to call it soccer because I am in the US, and that’s just how people call it here. Because they have a sport you play with your hands that is called Football ??? I mean you only kick once….????
Before getting started if you love cultures and Spanish language hit the subscribe button right now.
So today I am going to first tell you why soccer matters so much to me, and then why I think it is not as huge here as it is in Colombia or other counties
So three reasons soccer has changed my life are
It has taught me geography and about the world
As a fervent fan of my national team, Colombia. I got to see them play almost all the countries in the world. And like that I learned so much about Iran, paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago, etc etc etc. At least I found out about the existence of these
countries,and sometimes I would learn more, like for example. Last world cup I learned so much about the history of croatia, I learned that Paraguayans also speak Guarani… Then by moving to the US, one of the most diverse countries in the world all of this knowledge came really handy when meeting people from all over the world. I at least knew where their country was, maybe one of their most famous players or maybe even more.
Soccer super stars inspired me to be multilingual
Another thing is the role models that you have… Some super star athletes can be a mess including soccer players, but a lot of the most famous soccer players play in Europe where they are forced to learn multiple languages to play on different teams. You know Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal has learned English in Manchester United, Spanish in Real Madrid and now Italian in Juventus. So your idols can be arrogant and everything but almost all of them are multilingual… and because you follow these athletes you get inspired. I always thought learning languages was cool because maybe I could go play for Newcastle in England and then be transferred to the Olympique de Lyon.
The last thing is soccer has connected me to a global community and connected me to friends all around the world.
I owe most of my best friends to soccer. In Colombia, my friends was my neighborhood or school soccer team, and that was it. We spend so many times in the field, faced the same challenges together and overcame them as a team.
Then when I came to Metro detroit and went to Michigan state university I met people from all over, from India, Senegal, France, Mexico, Saudi Arabia,US and sometimes we didn’t even speak the same language but we played soccer. And wherever I go with me, I know I can connect with a lot of people because of soccer.
Now with all of these things… It was a bit hard for me when I came to the US because even though there are a lot of people who are very passionate about soccer it is not nearly as much as other places
There are many many arguments about it. Some people say is that it is because Americans are not the best at it and they are used being the best at all of their sports…
But I don’t understand this. America is the best. Have you seen Megan Rapino, Alex Morgan? Us has dominated women soccer since forever.
Others say that the US just doesn’t follow the bandwagon. They are different. They used the imperial measuring system instead of metric, you know. I do believe there might be some true to this.
... (reach out to request full transcript)
