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I read most of the comments and I don't get this debtae between soccer and football fans.I live in the US in the last 4 years. In my home country soccer is #1, basketball #2, and everything else is pretty far behind. American football and Baseball do not exist. Comparing between football and soccer do not make much sense. It's very subjective and eventually it all depends where you grow up. If I was born in India I would have been a huge cricket fan, I'm sure; but I wasn't, and circket is a game I will never watch. But the main thing that for me makes soccer superior over football was mentioned already. Soccer is a game that anybody can play, on any surface, with nothing but a ball. Believe it or not, you don't need more than two people to play it. Since I remember myself I play soccer, and I hope to continue playing at least till I'm 50. And everybody loves to play soccer, it's fun and the best exercise you can get. I like to watch soccer on TV and then apply the moves I saw while playing. That's the beauty of it.Sometimes I see kids play football here in Chicago. It's always like one kid is running, one kid is running after him, and the rest just watch. You cannot really play it unless it's well organized.But I like soccer as it is today. I prefer it staying small for a 2 reasons:1. Tickets are cheap you can go with your family to a soccer match without taking a mortgage. Football is for the rich.2. If soccer becomes very popular everybody in the streets will play it. From my experience, the street people in the US do not understand that a team sport is not an individual sport. I stopped playing basketball in the US because I felt stupid playing with people who never pass the damn ball. Everybody thinks he is the next Kobe. For the national team to be better you need soccer to be played in the streets, like basketball. It's not something I wish to happen as I just mentioned, but it's usually where talent grows. Especially if many African American starts playing it. Soccer has the potential to become #2 in the US but never #1. It will for sure be bigger than basketball one day, don't know what about baseball. But football will always stay #1. And for the rest of the world, soccer is:1. #1 in Europe.2. #1 the middle east.3. #1 in south america.4. #1 in the China. Yes, people do not know it because China has many sports that they are more known for (like ping pong), but soccer is the most watched sports. And that's what chinese people told me.5. #1 in south korea and japan. Yes, somebody mentioned that japan has sumo. That's right, but soccer is way more watched an popular. IN fact, these countries have good leagues and great national teams.6. #2 in India. Circket is #1, but many people in India watch soccer as well.
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