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  "description": "\n\nfivepoints.mattglassman.net via publicannouncement.org\n\n\n\nThis is also why youth and amateur soccer, as a game, can be more fun to watch than pro soccer. The comparative lack of skill and relative inability to control the ball create a situation where it’s strategically less rewarding to be passive, and the continual turnovers create opportunities for profitable aggressive actions. You lose the world-class athletes doing world-class athlete things. But the trade-off is it’s just more continuou",
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  "textContent": "fivepoints.mattglassman.net via publicannouncement.org\n\n> This is also why youth and amateur soccer, as a game, can be more fun to watch than pro soccer. The comparative lack of skill and relative inability to control the ball create a situation where it’s strategically less rewarding to be passive, and the continual turnovers create opportunities for profitable aggressive actions. You lose the world-class athletes doing world-class athlete things. But the trade-off is it’s just more continuously exciting.\n\nA truly insane take.",
  "title": "Soccer is truly spectacular, in spite of itself",
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