Why USA never jumped the soccer bandwagon?

[binary solo]

BraLoD said:

binary solo said:

Late to the show, but Basketball was an olympic sport waaaaaayyy before soccer. And there has been a basketball world cup for a few decades now. So basketball is a global sport. 

What I don't understand is why the USA isn't more into Rugby, a superior sport to American Football in all respects. Though I am also glad they're not more into Rugby because they would totally dominate. People should actually be glad the USA isn't as soccer mad as South America and Europe, because the USA would win almost every world cup. Just look at how well they do in the World Cup with its status as a B-list pro-sport there.

LOL

It would take a least a couple decades to USA to be even in the high tear to be even a contestant to a world cup final, and yeah, that can happen, but winning almost every cup? Lol, nope. Football is a really competitive game, there are no clear favorites when high level/important matches happen.

Brazil is the biggest winner and has the most tradition in the sport, even with a weak team it can hold good positions in a world cup, but that doesn't mean it'll win it, I'm sure you remember that 7-1.

One of the things that make football so popular is that's highly competitive and it's pretty hard to tell who will win even when you have a better team, tradition and actually is playing better.

You don't understand my point. My point is, if the USA was as soccer mad as, say, Brazil, it means it would have been the #1 sport in the USA for several decades already. It would have the sort of machinery around it that American Football does and it would be the completely dominant domestic professional competition. The USA is dominant at the Olympics too, so it's not just its big 3 sports in which is leads the world. The only country that out did the USA at the olympics was the USSR, and that doesn't exist any more. When it comes to sport, when the USA and its people get crazy about that sport it has both the population base and the financial base to kick everyone's arse most of the time. All other countries either lack the financial base or the population base to compete. It's just the way it is. If Soccer had developed in the USA along the same path and the same timeline as it developed in South America, the USA would totally dominate global soccer.

Even now, being so late to the soccer party, and still being a minor pro-sport there, they are likely to be almost permanent fixtures in the knockout stages of the FWC  from now on, which makes the in the top 16 countries in the world, and they will get into the quarter finals regularly. That's pretty much top tier already.