LGBTQQIP2SAA Gone Too Far: Soccer Edition
- Fred
- Jun 29
- 5 min read
I played both city soccer and travel soccer when I was a kid.
I then played high school soccer, men's indoor soccer, and, finally, 30+ outdoor soccer.
I coached both my kids in soccer. I enjoy watching relatives play soccer.
Every Saturday Morning, I wake up, crack open the computer, and turn on Premier League soccer on Peacock, (in season, of course), and type away for Beacon of Speech.
Since I started the website, we have written about Indoor Soccer, the USMNT, the USWNT, Women's College Soccer, the Premier League, MLS, and, finally, how much Qatar sucks at soccer. I love soccer so much, I made an independent soccer film (that failed miserably).
If you ask me what the biggest problem in youth soccer is today, I would answer: The Financial Burdens for Parents of Good, Young Soccer Players.
If you ask me what the biggest problem in professional soccer is today, I would answer: Too Many Games.
If you ask the average liberal sportswriter what the biggest problem in professional soccer is today, they would answer: Racist Chants.
So imagine my surprise, at 55 years old, to read this at CNN yesterday: What it’s like being a trans sports fan in Trump’s second term.
"As the US gears up to be one of three countries hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup next June – the first on American soil since 1994 – the spotlight is turning towards its sporting scene. And as the attention of the world’s sports media shifts to the US, a number of athletes and soccer fans, including many trans people themselves, are raising the alarm over the attacks on trans rights. Some want to use the upcoming World Cup – the largest international soccer tournament there is and arguably the most popular global event, sporting or otherwise – to show the world that the trans community in the US takes care of one another, refusing to disappear even as the Trump administration attempts to make life difficult for them. Many just want trans people to have the right to play and enjoy sports as freely as anyone else."
In my entire life, I have NEVER heard of issues trans fans have had at soccer games. NEVER.
We are going to take a deep breath, and start over.
Back in the year 2018, ESPN the Magazine sounded the alarm that English fans were going to die at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Russian Goon Squads were training hooligans to target foreigners when they flooded into Russia.
It was a very long, well-researched article.
After the Russian World Cup was over, there were no reports of deaths, or even reports of assaults during the tournaments. Most of the arrests were of drunken foreigners. We wrote this in 2018: "At the beginning of the World Cup, Putin and RT assured the world that Soccer's biggest event was going to be a triumph of the human spirit. At the same time, ESPN and the British Media warned that the tournament was going to be a historic bloodbath. There really wasn't a middle ground between the predictions, so I wrote the article World Cup '18 (Someone Will Be Wrong) as a time capsule. I have a number of observations about the tournament, but the main one is... the Russians were right."
So when CNN wants to sound the alarm about Trans Rights in relation to America's World Cup, it reeks of Far-Left Propaganda. What's it Like Being a Trans Sport Fan in Trump's Second Term has nothing to do with sports. It has to do with using sports to move an agenda. The undertone is that Trans Citizens are in imminent danger in America.
You say that it's not just about fans, trans rights as a whole are important? I'm not arguing with you. But I am not aware of one trans player in the history of America Soccer that's been turned away from a Men's Soccer Team based on their orientation, from the high school level to the USMNT. You counter it has happened on Women's Teams? This isn't the Women's World Cup.
So if no transgender player has been turned away from a men's team, and there's no rash of attacks on transgender soccer fans, what are we doing here?
Now if CNN was a blog, it is well within their rights to publish whatever they see fit. That's their interpretation of free speech. But, again, don't try to claim you're a neutral news organization when you create narratives that don't exist.
Or, at the very least, try to have some sort of hard evidence that there was a vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
Every time you see a sports team wearing rainbow gear, think to yourself: Would the far-left be okay if wearing the cross was mandatory for a sports team? As the Supreme Court supposedly "curtails" LGBT Rights, I am reminded over and over that I just want to watch sports. I don't want to see rainbows, I don't want to see crosses, I don't want political message spray painted in the grass. I don't want to hear about Christian Persecution in the Middle East, I want to see soccer.
Back when I was a young man playing soccer, our suburban team went out to Oberlin to play their soccer team. Oberlin is still home to one of the most liberal colleges in the Midwest, Oberlin College.
The first thing I noticed was their goalkeeper had pink hair. Well, technically half pink, and a half shaved head. Their team also didn't do warm-ups, they just kind of stretched in the grass and listened to their coach talk. Before kickoff even arrived, there was just something really off about their team.
As we racked up goal after goal, we were up 5-0 at halftime. It would have been 15-0, but their goalkeeper was actually really, really good. The rest of the team? Terrible.
As our coach emptied the bench and sat all the starters, one of our players said "what position is mid-circle?" The coach just looked at the kid like he had a mental problem.
Now me, I couldn't get over how calm the other coach was. I remember at the age of 9, our Czechoslovakian Coach yelling at us, partly in his native tongue, that he wanted us to move to ball to the wings and then cross the ball.
Apparently, during a brief moment of down time, one of my teammates said to the opposition: "What position are you even playing?" And not in a nice way, but in a condescending way. The kid answered: "The coach doesn't believe in positions. He believes in focusing on areas and letting the game be a bit more 'free-flowing.' I am supposed to kind of concentrate on the center of the field."
After winning 7-0, I kind of felt bad for the other kids, they were tired of getting killed every week. My old Czechoslovakian Coach would have whipped them into shape in no time. I didn't care if the other players were gay, straight, or other, I just wanted to play soccer.
But beating a team whose coach believes in position-less soccer almost felt like cheating. Like their own coach didn't understand how soccer worked.
And I feel the same way about the World Cup. If you're not talking about how your team can win the planet's biggest soccer tournament, I don't want to hear about how you're using the sport to advance your agenda. Because at some point, it's not about soccer, but getting your message in front of a billion eyeballs.
Phaggots think they are superior to everybody.
Soccer sucks.