I mean... I don't see how one person being a huge Madrid fan justifies that soccer is famous in America. But of course theres a lot of soccer fans here, just like there is in any sport. Soccer is, I would say, the 4th most popular sport in America behind Football, Basketball, and Baseball.
Speaking from what I have seen, either you like soccer or you don't. As the majority of people I know don't even know the slightest bit about soccer. That would also pertain to me had I not had that teacher.
wait, am pretty sure Basketball is the most popular sport in USA, looking at how it spread across the world and gain popularity compared to American Football,
you should stop looking from your own point of view for this matter, there's a hundred thousand of Soccer fans in USA or millions of them, let me tell something useful
In 1994, the World Cup came to America.Played out during a four-week period under scorching summer temperatures, the 1994 World Cup brought the global game to the biggest and most demanding sports market in the world for the first time in its illustrious history: the United States.
Would the World Cup, the biggest sporting event on the planet, be a success in the U.S.? Many had their doubts. The North American Soccer League went under in 1984 and with no major domestic league to replace it, soccer was relegated to the periphery of the American sporting conscience
A World Cup on American soil, the soccer-hating critics said, would be a dismal failure with the roster of international stars, virtually unknown to the U.S. audience, destined to play before half-empty stadiums.
How wrong they were.
The 1994 tournament shattered World Cup records for total attendance (3,587,538 spectators) and average attendance per game (68,991) - Italy 1990 (2,517,348 total) and Brazil 1950 (60,773 average) were the previous record-holders. and the records still belong to the world cup in America at 1994..........
Not really if they were down the whole game. But yeah that's because of the low scored games, am i correct? Of course its easy to come back with a win when goals are only worth one point and are rarely even achieved.
they were down the whole game, 1-0 and after that their captain get a red card then the score sheet turn 2-0, and they made it 2-2 with buzzer beater goal in the last minute, thus make them qualify for 3-2 aggregate,
did you really think its easy to score a goal in professional soccer match ? especially when they played away games and played against the best team in the world, scoring goal is not that easy compared to scoring touchdown in American football
Okay it is derived from an opinion, but what justifies it being a fact? I still don't believe you fully see the difference between a fact and opinion.
It's like your trying to tell me apples are better then oranges, and it's a fact. What would justify that? As it's an opinion and depends on your own personal taste.
the fact that it was loved all over the globe, the fact that they have international tournament in every continent,
the fact that they have professional league/Amateur/youth competition almost in every country, the fact that they have their OWN world cup tournament that involved almost all countries in the process,
as far as i know they only played American Football in US,Canada and Japan, the Japanese manga artist actually tried to popularized American football in Asia by making Manga about American Football (like how Slam Dunk(Manga)help popularized Basketball in Asia) but he failed thought his manga is awesome it don't have the same effect lie Slam Dunk.
Like 2-3 years ago, and it didn't amuse me enough to continue watching after I completed the class.
ah 2 or 3 years ago is where Ronaldo and Messi start to compete each other according to the media..... no wonder you don't find it amusing because Soccer at that time and nowadays is sucks compared to 90's and early 2000, there is a declination in every famous team. the biggest reason is the crisis that storm the Europe and the arrival of sugar daddy(Arab Investor)whose pouring money endlessly to their team and hurt the other team financially and tactically by taking their best players.......
That doesn't make much sense, if you ask me. I don't know any teams or players, but what I mean by that is I only know of the famous ones. Umm... Okay, LOL. Be more specific next time, because I find that hard to believe.
@ BOLD - But as you claimed you know both sports, as I don't, so why make excuses? Even though Soccer is well known in the US, I had absolutely no knowledge of soccer other then the rules. I only learned more as I watched for a single school year. So if you truly watch and enjoy football as you claimed, you would first and formost know what a first down is, as that is the basics of football, and know more then 2-3 teams and players.
what excuse ? i only tell you a fact that American is Hardly known in other country but America and Canada,
its hard to keep with American Football in here, i only see it from time to time in ESPN and i hardly watched TV unless its a weekend(where soccer match commence), so its impressive for someone like me know something about some unknown sport from the US despite the country where i life know nothing about American Football,
and i know what 1st down is but i don't know how it works..........