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everyone can play their role, no matter how minor or irrelevant to the game
Outside the USA, it is generally called "football" (Spanish: ''fútbol'').
Outside the USA, it is generally called "football" (Spanish: ''fútbol'').
Soccer is the easiest sport for kids:
*As Stephen H. Webb wrote at First Things last year, to contemporary American parents, "Baseball is too intimidating, football too brutal, and basketball takes too much time to develop the required skills ... Soccer is the perfect antidote to television and video games. It forces kids to run and run, and everyone can play their role, no matter how minor or irrelevant to the game."<ref name=media-goal />
==Origins==
==Origins==
[[Matthew Philbin]] faults the media for using soccer to undercut [[American exceptionalism]] and muses:
[[Matthew Philbin]] faults the media for using soccer to undercut [[American exceptionalism]] and muses:
* Soccer requires comparatively little from children but the ability to run after the ball - the risk of failure for anyone except maybe the goal keeper is zero. Even the strong chance that any given game will end in a tie makes it attractive for parents reluctant to impart life's difficult lessons to young kids. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-philbin/2010/06/09/media-make-selling-soccer-goal#ixzz2gO2g6g35]
* Soccer requires comparatively little from children but the ability to run after the ball - the risk of failure for anyone except maybe the goal keeper is zero. Even the strong chance that any given game will end in a tie makes it attractive for parents reluctant to impart life's difficult lessons to young kids.<ref name=media-goal> [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-philbin/2010/06/09/media-make-selling-soccer-goal#ixzz2gO2g6g35 Media Make Selling Soccer a Goal] - Matthew Philbin - June 9, 2010</ref>
Another critic said:
Another critic said: