For some time I have been wanting an explanation from Dallas FC fans as to why their nickname is the "Hoops"? Aren't hoops normally associated with basketball? Can someone please explain so I get finally get some sleep at night? Thanks!!
it's because we have a non-traditional training style. rather than the usual passing drills, endurance training, scrimmaging, etc, FCD players actually play basketball for most of their training. the theory is that if they train with a game of high-scoring, they'll be motivated to score highly during soccer matches.
Sure. The primary FCD uniform is red and white horizontal stripes, the second is silver and white horizontal stripes. Bu the way, Dario Sala often wears the silver and white stripes shirt at home games. In soccer lingo, horizontal stripes are called "hoops." For instance, Celtic has been wearing hoops for over one hundred years. Which is why I alwasy opposed hoops, and supported a more dynamic uniform, like Atlante's. Hoops are for Celtic. Of course, last Saturday, Celtic was handed the SPL title for the 41st time, and are in the finals of the Scottish FA Cup, so perhaps we might hope for some of the same results. Slim hope. Dead but dreaming, Scipio Diabolus, vox fatum. Contra. The Rolling Rock tastes different.
Damn I hate that idiotic name... Stupid Greg Elliott. Just refer to them as the Red Stripes, Toros, or something else....
Well. Now we got Telefutura announcers talking about "Los Jups"........ RED STRIPES FOREVER! VAMOS RAYADOS! HOORAY FOR FCD!
but why did Celtic call it "hoops" a hundred years ago - not "stripes" or "bars" or "rows" or "ranks" or something else? if you had been following my advice and chiseling the text of all of my posts into book-matched tablets of fine Carrera marble in your backyard you could go out there right now and read the answer. clue: Newcastle could call themselves "staves" ps on a different topic: If you see a "reverse-angle" angle replay on any daytime sports telecast, immediately report it to Alberto Gonzalez, Attorney-General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.: a crime against nature has been committed.
i like the name hoops lol i guess im in the minority guess with the old celtic jerseys it made more sense when the stripes actually wrapped around the players' bodies then it looked like the player had hoops around their chest like the player is wearing like 5 green hula hoops over a white shirt or something
To differentiate between the solid uniforms and stripes they have on occassion worn. They have a vertical stripes unifrom this year. In East Glasgow, however, they alwasy wear Hoops. One of the first team in the world to do so. I have been chiseling your posts into gold tablets. Someday, someone as delusional as Joseph Smith (no relation) will find them, and there will be a new cult. The Church of the Latter Day Ze Bills. They will have missionaries you can throw coffee at. Newcastle United, of course, are the Magpies. That is new. The original Magpies are Notts County. Everyone is new compared to Notts County. I hate County, and Derby, and Rangers, and Jeff Gordon, and Hillary Clinton. Dead but dreaming, Scipio Diabolus, vox fatum. Contra. The Rolling Rock tastes different.
no your not. agreed. Next topic please. maybe we should sticky this so we don't have to go through this once a month?
Maybe we should change Hoops to Forros. Still basically the same shape but smells a lot more like we play!
It is FC Dallas, not Dallas FC. As has been pointed out, in soccer lingo, horizontal stripes are hoops, vertical stripes are stripes. So you can distinguish one style of uniform from another by a brief description; usually a soccer team either wears a solid color shirt, solid color with sleeves of a different color, half and half, hoops, or stripes. Other variations include solid color with hooped sleeves (Tampa Bay Rowdies for instance), solid color with a sash of a different color, solid color with a chest "V" of a different color (this is more common in rugby for some reason), solid color with a single or multiple hoop(s) of a different color across the chest only (Boca Juniors, DC United), etc. For some reason, hoops are more often associated with rugby clubs and stripes with soccer clubs, but this "rule" is not observed universally. Although come to think of it I've never seen a rugby club wear (vertical) stripes. Soccer clubs do wear hoops though, for instance hoops are very common amongst Scottish soccer clubs. Contra what you might have heard, Celtic do not have some kind of monopoly on the word hoops or on hooped uniforms. Other clubs who wear hoops: Reading (blue and white hoops). Sporting Lisbon (green and white hoops). MLS's very own FC Dallas (red and white hoops). Queens Park Rangers (blue and white hoops). No doubt others I'm forgetting at the moment. Stripes are more common than hoops amongst soccer clubs, though. Ignore the dead horse beaters who are still resisting the awesomeness that is FC Dallas hoops. Seriously, sometimes reading BigSoccer I think some of you people won't be happy until MLS clubs are wearing uniforms derived from ice hockey jerseys or gridiron uniforms, complete with gigantic numbers on the front of the jerseys, like those horrid first New York Cosmos uniforms, circa 1971. Hoops are a good, traditional soccer jersey pattern. FC Dallas is a soccer team. They could have done a lot worse than chose red and white hoops.
Club Athletico Paranaese our sister club also wears red and black hoops. as for the Dead Horse comment... is not about the hoops, but the fact that many here on these boards have to answer the same question over and over.
Good Lawd! Everytime this question comes, I always say the same thing, "Can we have an FCD FAQ sticky? Can we have a sticky for the most often asked question with the easiest answer?" But do we get one...nooooooooo....come on! How difficult is it to have an FAQ on this forum????
i know its dumb to reply to my own post but... attention adidas! this is what hoops SHOULD look like going all the way around the jersey not with that dumb red bar down the side under the arm i mean we really do wear stripes not hoops am i the only one sick of adidas' stupid templates? nike doesnt do much right but their soccer jerseys are MUCH better than adidas' not to mention that awful red shoulder pad look
Yes. The red shoulder pads are the exact reason why I didnt even consider buying the new jersey. Sadly we are subject to Adidas and their crappy templates for another 8 years.