why soccer is not popular in the usa, whereas it's the most popular sport in rest of the world?
97914
Because Americans are awful soccer players! De madera!
1067832
The Classic will NEVER become more popular than the World Cup.\n\nSoccer is the world's sport, baseball is America's.
1064111
I feel it may have to do with a cultural thing.  \n\nFootball, basketball, and baseball have tradition and roots in the American culture.  As a result, much time has been invested in promoting the sport, attracting and recruiting talent, and incorporating technology to advance the sport.\n\nI feel that soccer is relatively new to America.  The soccer fan base is probably not as solid and committed with, say, the basketball group.  But then again, all this can change as more exposure of this sport is made in the media, and popular events like FIFA and the Olympics take place.
430795
The USA did not start playing football when the sport first gained popularity aroung the world. The reason for this was a form of rebellion against the British. When the USA was a new country it did not want to have anything the do with the British this included sports. The USA developed a new game that is now known as Football in the USA. When football gained some form popularity in the USA they had to give a new name here. Soccer. Where they got the name soccer from? That's a mystery to me.
361067
Basketball is mostly popular in america and a bit in some countries but soccer is loved worldwide so soccer wins the battle.
1153179
because "soccer" is only called soccer in the US...everyone around the world calls soccer "football" or "futbol"
1112860
Absolutely not!  They love football, but it is American footbale play by hand! 99% of American do not care soccer. I tried to watch Mexico against Angola yesterday and only Spanish channel show this match. During that period of time, three other sport channels were showing other sport!\n\nHow do they expect their team would advance to next round this year? US team did a very good job in 2002 World Cup. This should increase the popularity of this sport in the US. But, obviously, it is not.\n\nNone of the newspapers in the US shows the World Cup' s matches schedule. No analysis has been drawn up. \n\nUS seems to enjoy sports that other countries do not play. The biggest sport in the world, Soccer, has been intentinally igonored!
782988
Yeah it's popular in Europe too.\nLots of kids in those countries play soccer.  Soccer is even popular in the United States.  I see lots of vans and SUVs with soccer logos on the bumpers.  Lots of soccer moms and lots of leagues.
274371
Soccer has to be played world wide there is no country which does not play it at some level and more people follow soccer then any religion in the world its mankind's favorite pastime....what do you think?
1036910
Well... take it from an American. The football that you know and love isn't quite as popular here in the states as American Football. Good point made, it IS pointless that we call football soccer. I think America has a pride issue. We don't (as a whole) go nuts over soccer (football) as the rest of the planet, I wish we did, but we don't. I believe it's because we know we're not that great at it. \n\nAmerica only dominates the sports that we made up. And those are the sports that are most widely televised and merchandised, hence making them "more popular" than the world's sports. Soccer is truly The World's Sport. But, we must be stubborn.\nWhy do you think we don't use the system of standard weights and measures? We've got to be the oddball out of the world...
370061
I believe that it is the nature of America.  We like movies with explosions and quick action.  We love sports that have a lot of scoring like basketball.  Soccer is boring to us, we don’t appreciate 0-0 ties.  Also, our athletes here tend to be better suited for stop and go sports.  Like sprinting rather than marathon running, football and baseball, where the action stops constantly and we can have commercials.  Having said that, I could see soccer becoming bigger, as young kids here are playing it more and more so we’ll see.  Plus the last world cup brought together a great deal of people in America b/c we actually won something for once.
216350
Because the pro sports league (MLS) historically hasn't been as big as the other pro sports leagues (primarily MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL). Until the MLS makes it as big as these four sports, the US Soccer team will probably always be popular once every four years during the world cup.
534065
SOCCER IS THE ONLY UNIVERAL SPORT PLAYED ALL OVER THE WORLD. EVEN IN COUNTRIES THAT DON'T HAVE ANY MAJOR SPORTS IN THERE COUNTRIES AND SOCCER IS THEIR PASSION. AND CAUSE IT'S GETTING SOOOOOOO CLOSE TO THE WORLD CUP AND THE FACT THAT THE WORLD CUP IS ONLY EVERY 4 YEARS AND SO MANY GAMES ARE PLAYED DURING THOSE 4 YEARS THAT IT'S ALL WORTH WHAT U PLAYED FOR AND WORKED HARD TO GET THERE.
1094281
There are 243 intities considered to be "countries".  Out of that 32 made it to World Cup - one of which was the US and undoubtedly you can bet that out of the other 211 there are a considerable number where soccer is more popular and supported than in the US.  Having said that I just feel honored that our team made it and was a part of it at all and not the least bit shocked that we didn't fair better.  But it doesn't mean that I won't be hoping for a better showing next time.
1181746
Oh, come on...  Let's stop with the derogatory answers about the US and soccer.  I, for one, absolutely love it.  I've had a great time watching the World Cup.  My roommates (both Americans) and I have recently spent our afternoons watching the games.  I'd also really like to play, but I'm pretty bad at sports so I don't know how that would go over.  \n\nHowever, not everyone in the US loves soccer.  I think this has something to do with the fact that soccer is televised without commercial breaks.  This makes the major television companies less likely to carry it (even though there is a Fox soccer channel you can subscribe to) because they make a lot of their money on advertisements, which sports like (American) football allow for.  Still, soccer is a popular sport in American high schools, and I hope to see its popularity increasing as people become more drawn into the World Cup this year.
117934
According to wikipedia, over 240 million people regularly play soccer (aka football) in more than 200 countries.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer\n\nHere is a very unscientific survey of self-proclaimed most popular sports: http://www.johann-sandra.com/popular.htm
1089311
Its because we don't have a chance for it to grow on us. America is a culture that relies on the media heavily. Soccer isn't made for tv. It would be impossible to show commercials or anything like that. All of the other sports in America actually make breaks so that they can show commercials. Soccer just wouldn't fit in with what most people are used to. Therefore no big network would risk it.