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This kind of arrogance coupled with a culture that wants nothing less than instant satisfaction can not ever appreciate a sport that values tenacity, group work, and fluid play.

Oh, and greatest nation also comes with “best ghettos” and “best inner-city schools” , a literacy rate lower than many underdeveloped countries, and of course “THE GREATEST DEBT”

1. This might have something to do with something. I’ll give you this point. The rest of our sports do directly involve hands.

2. I doubt this has much to do with overall popularity. As others have said, the English came up with this name, then forgot about it. You come off really smug and elitist in the way you write, admitting that Americans didn’t invent the term Soccer would’ve helped alleviate this a little.

3. This is a stupid point. Americans hate commercial breaks. I’m disappointed that you take this as an opportunity to insult the American mentality. Your implication that Americans are essentially too stupid to focus on one thing for 45 minutes is inaccurate and a cheap-shot.

4. This point makes some sense. While the rest of the world was getting really into soccer and establishing the World Cup the Americans were isolationist. We didn’t want to get involved in foreign affairs after bailing the Europeans out from WWI. It took WWII to get us involved again, but by that point there was no room for soccer. The US happened to have a very inward looking mentality during the period where soccer grew the most. Bad timing for the world because the World Cup and international soccer would benefit greatly from an increased American participation. It’s like playing board games with the family (the world) on Sunday afternoon, except the cool younger brother (America) doesn’t like the board games so he goes and plays poker with his buddies. The family would have a much better time if he were there with them, but he isn’t interested.

5. I got nothing to say about this one.

6. This is the most infuriating point. Soccer players are obsessed with diving and embellishing every push and shove. Cheating is thoroughly engrained in soccer. Cheaters are constantly rewarded in soccer by the refs. Don’t say American’s don’t like soccer because they can’t cheat. That is just crap.

7. If you really had nothing to say after your 6th point you shouldn’t have moved on. If you watch a sporting event on TV in America you won’t really see any cheerleaders. Cheerleaders play such a minimal role in sports, unless you’re at the game you won’t notice them. Even then they aren’t very noticeable.

Bottom line: Americans don’t like soccer because they didn’t grow up playing or watching it. If soccer had achieved a foothold in the U.S. in the 30s then it would probably be among the “big three,” but it didn’t really get big here until the 80s/90s. Soccer will replace baseball eventually. U.S.-hating soccer fans like yourself better hope and pray that the top athletes in the U.S. don’t choose the soccer route, because if they do the U.S. will dominate, simple as that. The people who play soccer in the U.S. right now are probably our 2nd and 3rd tier athletes.

What’s with this rule? You snuck past them when they weren’t paying attention, that’s the other team’s fault.

1) When soccer supporters really started pushing the game in the U.S.A. 35 years ago, they sold it as a “safe” alternative to dangerous football and baseball. This simply translated to “sissy sport” for a lot of people.

2) Own goals. Scoring on yourself happens a little too often in this game where you rarely score on the other team. It can happen in two of our big three games but it happens so rarely that it becomes legendary (wrong way run in Rose Bowl for instance).

3) You can’t go from behind to ahead in one play. The fact that you can only score 1 point at a time means you never have a dramatic last second where you snatch victory from defeat. You might snatch a tie from defeat.

4) No pauses. Actually, I think the pauses create their own tension. It’s really nerve wracking watching your favorite team huddle up before a 4th and 2 to win the game. Plus you can analyze all the possible strategies while you wait.

5) Statistics…and I think this is a huge one that many people ignore. American sports fans love statistics (see fantasy leagues) and no sports come up with statistics better than football and baseball.

6) Gambling. Point spreads make gambling on football a lot of fun….overs and unders and lots of other cool things.

7) We simply don’t care about soccer. We have our sports and we don’t really insist that the rest of the world like them. I never hear anybody in the USA lamenting the fact that they don’t like American Football in India or Baseball in Cameroon. We really don’t care. The thing the rest of the world needs to ask themselves is this: How is it that America wins the women’s world cup and the USA is pretty regularly making the knockout rounds in a sport we don’t even like. I mean, it’s truly our sixth string athletes hanging with your 1st stringers. I know we’re not the favorites against Brazil or Germany, but those countries definitely couldn’t take us lightly.

Really, we usually win the most medals in the Olympics and they don’t even feature our two most popular sports and when they do feature one of our popular sports we don’t send our best players (exception: Two of the dream teams in basketball). You see, we don’t care. We don’t care that you like soccer more. We don’t care that you have Cricket and Rugby and Croquet. We’ve got NASCAR, hotdog eating competitions, roller derby and monster truck pulls. If we were going to be just like Europe we wouldn’t have ran over hear to get away from Catholics who were drowning us for wanting to be Baptized as adults.

Bottom line, we fought two world wars to keep this crap out of country and just because the rest of the world likes it doesn’t mean we have to like Communist Kickball here (a neutral term–neither soccer nor football).