<p>Gee, I wonder why soccer is so popular around the world while American football is only played in America?</p>
<p>soooooo true…the world realizes that football sucks, and soccer is the universal sport that unites the entire world and gives them a common game that everyone enjoys</p>
<p>If you think about it, soccer is the great equalizer in all of sports. All you need is a ball, really. And you don’t have to be 7 feet tall or weigh at least 250 pounds in order to succeed; in fact, most footballers are very average in size. So it’s the most universal sport there is.</p>
<p>soccer has been around a lot longer than football has, thus more universal</p>
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Well, ideally, a ball and a couple of trees or poles would do it.
NOT true. Soccer is actually the same, maybe even a bit younger than american football - first championship - the FA Cup - was held in like 1880s or 1890s.</p>
<p>Soccer as a whole will never really appeal to the North American (minus Mexico) audience. Canadians have hockey and love it to death and Americans have pretty much everything else. </p>
<p>I don’t ever expect the North American audience to appreciate a game where scores are only worth one point and there aren’t between five to ten per game and I don’t expect Europeans to ever understand the appeal of NASCAR.</p>
<p>As for the diving thing, it’s not necessarily true. England doesn’t have a reputation for diving. English fans are incredibly whiny but I’d hardly label their national team as being the divas that the Portugese and Italians are. I’d also say the French aren’t divers either. Watch the France vs Portugal game and count how many times a Portugese player falls down rolls over, pretends he hurt, appeal to the referee for a free kick and then suddenly get up and starts sprinting again.</p>
<p>What about Latin America? They love their soccer down there…North America isn’t comprised of only Canada, the US and Mexico.</p>
<p>I consider Latin America to be Central and South America. Guess you could make an arguement for the Carribbean though.</p>
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And dont be surprised if in 80% of the cases his name will be Christiano Ronaldo 
he’s such a sissy
Believe me, it is, it really is! :D</p>
<p>" Police in Berlin arrested two men for causing serious physical injury by placing cement-filled soccer balls around the city with signs that said ‘CAN U KICK IT?’ "</p>
<p>Stephen Colbert on why he like soccer – " It’s the only sport that leaves your hands freefor obscene gestures. "</p>
<p>Lighten up, you losers.</p>
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No, all you need is a ball. You don’t need trees or poles or goals or even friends to practice juggling and shooting and dribbling by yourself.</p>
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Actually, variations of soccer have been played for thousands of years. More modern soccer has been played for hundreds. Forming official organizations and cups came later.</p>
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<p>Every culture had some form of soccer, which is why it sounds a bit ridiculous when the Brits claim they invented the game. Yeah, it took humans thousands of years to figure out they could make a game by kicking an object into a designated area.</p>