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Message: [QUOTE="BigBird, post: 2597154, member: 4247"] Soccer is deceptively hard to do. I did soccer on radio, and it was definitely a challenge. Doing it from field level made it even tougher. Being able to recognize and separate strategic play from random actions is really tough, even if you’ve played the game - which I have not. I never felt that I did a really good job with the sport. On TV, you just let the video do most of the work; you speak in short phrases and generally just follow the ball. Use back-passing gaps for color comments. It’s a shame that there are so few good soccer voices in the U.S. I like J.P. Delacamera, who is all-around excellent. Ian Darke is a pain in the posterior. If I ruled the soccer realm, I’d consign the Brits to the studio - at the most. The way to grow soccer in the U.S., I believe, is to stop emulating things European and give the game an American style and tone. [/QUOTE]