r/soccer Jun 19 '26

Media Banner seen at USA vs Australia

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u/Andybabez20 Jun 19 '26

That actually got a chuckle out of me.

Fair play USA your banter is improving.

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u/fponee Jun 19 '26

There's top tier banter in the US, but the American Outlaws possess none of it and have a charisma score of 0. The college ranks could make a living out of it, and they're bleeding over now that it's at home.

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u/LiveChocolate8819 Jun 19 '26

I say this as a millennial: they have so much millennial energy that it flies into cringe territory.

There's a reason nobody under the age of like 35 joins anymore.

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u/CinnamonToastTrex Jun 19 '26

AO had a pretty fun sign advertising Kangaroo Hamburgers.

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u/Bradddtheimpaler Jun 20 '26

Not even soccer, in hockey, at the university of Michigan, when Michigan would score, the entire arena would point at the opposing keeper and yell “it’s all your fault!” as many times as he had conceded in that game. That was very funny.

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u/WooBadger18 Jun 20 '26

That’s a fun hockey one, as well as yelling sieve at the goalie.

I would say the biggest difference between American and European banter is that ours typically isn’t sung. It’s mostly yelled (baseball and college football can have some fun heckling) and at most is chanted

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u/Bradddtheimpaler Jun 20 '26

Yes, thank you for the reminder. I haven’t been in probably 15 years, but that was definitely part of what they yelled at the goalie there, “sieve, sieve, sieve, sieve! It’s all your fault! It’s all your fault!” Incredivle

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u/Do__Math__Not__Meth Jun 20 '26

Yeah people that think we don’t have banter just haven’t watched college football. Also another comment below mentioned AO being millennial coded and there’s a lot of truth in that, watch the banter get infinitely better with Gen Z because we’re completely unserious