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Originally posted by SARGE
No. Football is strategy and brawn; soccer is just kicking the ball back and forth until someone gets the good kick. 
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That is certainly true for kiddie soccer games (and I used to referee them), but there is certainly strategy in soccer as well. Of course, like any sport, if you don't know where to look for it, it isn't evident. Like baseball ("They are just hitting the ball and running around; where's the strategy in that?") or football ("Everybody's in a big heap; what does that accomplish?")
To people who don't know soccer, an offside trap is probably as incomprehensible as a squeeze play.