How come soccer isn't a popular sport in America?

Answer 1

bcos they know they suck at it...

thats why the have these little games like american football ( which is not even football) , baseball ( YAWN) etc.. in their own country and have have make believe competitions where they can crown themselves world chamions without having to play agianst any team from the world... what a bunch of losers..

look at how they were sent home .. they are still whining about it ... check ESPN and listen to the commentators for 7 mins.. u will know what i mean ..

Answer 2

Soccer is not a popular sport because Americans think that Soccer is the most strenuous and the most unexciting sport in the world. Us Americans tune in to American Football because we like the excitement of men having an excuse to tackle other men. Baseball is America's popular sport because people can beat the living crap out of a ball. Basketball is more exciting because people like Spud Webb can dunk. Soccer is a game where people kick the ball and run. same with lacrosse and hockey. Where's the fun in that?

oh yeah, I'm an American that does enjoy soccer :-)

Answer 3

Because we have a plethora of other sports to choose from, unlike most other countries: baseball, basketball, football, hockey, etc. This drains away the talent that might go to playing soccer to those other sports.

We also don't have the climate which allows one to play soccer all-year round. It's a little tough to play soccer in Chicago in January when it's 12 degrees Fahrenheit and there's 15 inches of snow on the ground.

Answer 4

Answer is simple. "ADVERTISING". Sports are controlled and dictated by the networks in the US lets be honest. Why else they would pay millions of dollars to show these games if they could not make money from commercials. Soccer game only has one time out and thats in the middle. There are no time out every few minutes where several commercials could be aired. Because the game is contstanly moving without inturruptions there is no room for advertisements and essentially no chance to earn revenue.

Answer 5

I asked the same question to my American friend last week. He said it's because there's not enought intensity on the game. In American football and Basketball, you can see people touching each other and fighting over the ball. There's also a lot of scores going on the field.
But in soccer, it's more how you pass the ball and everything else. So it's less tense.

Answer 6

i think maybe in one country always has the one sport is the most popular. and baseball is the most popular sport in USA. that's why soccer in USA not so popular. but they did good with this world cup. i'm a one person who like soccer. haha! happy! happy!

Answer 7

Because they have no passion in their lives. I live in the States. I go to baseball games to take naps. I goto hockey games to watch the great European players. As far as football goes each player plays like 12 minutes a game, with about 2 hours of time outs for TV ratings and advertising. Basketball bunch of floppers. And worse of all in each game, there is no passion, no cheering, in fact in basketball games they need the announcer to yell out "DEFENSE" from the speakers to encourage their team, because the rest of the fans go over there to entertain a client, or on a date.

Answer 8

almost 6 billions cant be wrong.

How everybody know soccer ( football) are the most popular sport in the World.
Even i dont have idea about second =]

so is impossible all world be wrong about this.

Answer 9

yo spooks after watching a few world cup games i have to agree that there is no body bashing in soccer they are all wusses and of course im being sarcastic watch a game before you make a brilliant comment like that

Answer 10

idk.........i mean, here in america football (not soccer), and baseball r famous here, but in evry othr country soccer (or football) is a famous sport. and hav u seen how bad america was in the world cup...othr countries were a lot better at soccer thn us...and they hav been playin soccer a lot longer thn us...tht is how famous soccer is in othr countries.