While researching rules of soccer (still haven't figured out why no OT in the Copa America Semi-Final game), I came across these 2 articles:
Improving Soccer's marketability in USA via Higher scoring
Who else wants more entertaining soccer?
I could identify with this author as (1) I'm no soccer purist, (2) I do find American sports are in general more entertaining. IMO, the author made some good points when analyzing why soccer's popularity remains low in the States. His suggestions to rule changes seem a little bit too radical to me though.
Here are my suggestions:
1) [inspired by hockey] when the goal keeper takes the ball rather than punching it out after the other team's shot-on-goal, the opponent will be rewarded with a corner kick (analogous to face-off in hockey)
2) [inspired by basketball] disallow passing the ball back to own half when the ball has been advanced to opponent's half of the field (analogous to back court violation in basketball)
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