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mornelithe on 06 September 2015
xenogears1234 said:

Take your pic

1. Timeclock confusion

2. Lack of scoring

3. We as americans historically dont win alot of titles

4. Most importantly we already have way to many sports to follow and keep up with already like football, basketball, baseball, etc...

Indeed, by far the most important.  MLB, NHL, NFL and NBA have a stranglehold on year round sports in the US.  Plus, College sports are pretty big in the US also, College Basketball and Football are huge in the US.



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KLAMarine on 06 September 2015
Johnw1104 said:
KLAMarine said:

Because soccer sucks. There's almost no scoring hence at times I like calling it f0-0tball.

Lets not head down that road man... Nothing is so guaranteed to lead to endless, pointless squabbling as debating which sport is "better". They're all different, and that's why it's great that there's so many of them.

Who's squabbling? I'm just expressing my opinion.



Metallox on 06 September 2015
Qwark said:
Metallox said:

The men's team is the best in the CONCACAF. How is that a terrible team? 


Compared to European and South American countries it is not all that great. Like the best European guy isn't all that special at a Marathon or at Tabletennis for that

Well, it defeated Denmark and Germany just a couple of months ago.  The team is good, it just refuses to take seriously the decisive matches, such as the ones against Belgium last year and against Jamaica in the Gold Cup. 



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Metallox on 06 September 2015
Ka-pi96 said:

Do Mexico not count anymore or something?

LOL, seriously? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj-J_B7FqY4



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TheFallen on 06 September 2015
John120219 said:
Because our actual National Soccer team is terrible. Well our Men's National team is terrible, our Women's National team is amazing.


Which is because there is not a big grass roots push in USA for male soccer. If they had the the push countries like Spain, Italy , England etc had, USA would definitely be a dominant force.

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Qwark on 06 September 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Qwark said:
Metallox said:

The men's team is the best in the CONCACAF. How is that a terrible team? 


Compared to European and South American countries it is not all that great. Like the best European guy isn't all that special at a Marathon or at Tabletennis for that

The 2012 Olympics 10km marathon was won by a European guy. So if the best European isn't all that special at a marathon... what does that make the rest of the world?


Correction the 42km Marathon by a (white) European 



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WoodenPints on 06 September 2015

Because they can't make a domestic football league and call themselves world champions :P



ohmylanta1003 on 06 September 2015
Psychotic said:
ohmylanta1003 said:


Not a chance that it will pass basketball anytime soon. It will have a difficult time even passing the popularity of sports like hockey, tennis, and golf. The best case scenario is that it might be the 4th largest sport in 20 years.


A pessimist, eh?

Times change fast.


Not being a pessimist. Just telling you it's not possible.



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Wyrdness on 06 September 2015

I think you have to look at culture for a start, for us in Europe Football took off because it was a very local and tribal affair, what this means is it was a sport the masses could enjoy with out the high prices of more at the time glamorous sports. This is why a lot of football clubs were formed as it didn't require mass amount of funds to do so and the players were representing you and everyone in your area and it was an very easy sport to get into, this is also why countries like Brazil, Argentina etc... who have a large group living in poverty produce many players as for many it was the only escape for them even today which is why a lot of new talent consistently hails from there.

Over the decades this built up into something far bigger then what was expected, to me it looks like the different culture in the US made the country not as quick to embrace it as it didn't carry that same tribal like buzz for them which also made it less of an escape in the US for anyone who may have possibly been in poverty then in Europe, SA and other regions.



gergroy on 06 September 2015

Because we have the much more entertaining American Football to watch!