You are obviously wrong. Football is way too competitive worldwide to let any one single country dominate and the financial advantage and big population don't mean a thing. Just take a look at Uruguay, a rather poor country with only 3.4 mil people and it is one of the most successful teams in the history of the sport - only Brasil has more championship stars, Germany and Italy are on par with them.

Out of all major teamsports in the world football is the most competitive one, gives most chances for an upset and gives the weaker team best chances to win despite being worse (even being worse in the very game!), making it harder to dominate long term. And that's why people love it - even when you know you are worse, you can win if you play your heart out. Moreover, it's a sport that allows for the largest diversity of players, as things like race, size, height, strenght, etc. of all types are equally valuable and nobody is excluded because he is too short, slow, weak, etc. When I look at basketball and american football, it's almost exclusively for huge (HUGE!!) and freakishly athletic white and black dudes. Not the case for football.

I think the reason why it's not popular is a combination of sponsors not being able to turn it into an adfest the way they do it with american football and basketball (baseball as well, I guess?) and the fact that Americans are used to less demanding type of entertainment. The media feeds them with constant action, explosions and lasers, everything is easy to pick up, their sports are constant action (ad) action (ad) action (ad) and they aren't used to appreciating this type of entertainment. They expect something flashy to be happening the whole time and have a shorter attention span when it comes to sports.
And football isn't about that. I often watch mindblowing games that end with a 0:0 draw and am truely amazed by them, can talk about them for hours. Goals make the hilight reel, but that's not where the beauty of the sport is. They are the cherries, but even without them you can have an incredible cake! I very often focus on the excellence of the defence and value it much higher than the quality of the offence. Football is much like Spurs basketball - the one that Americans universally hated. The difference between their game and the rest of NBA shows well the difference between the game of football and what Americans like and are used to ;)

Football is more of a strategy game than an action game and that is probably the main reason. Americans just love them some flashy shooters ;)

Yeah I don't see the U.S winning almost every cup. Soccer is way more competitive and random, there are no favorites, this is why you don't see teams winning several cups in a row

Oh come on :P There is no argument here, Premiership is nowhere near to the level of Primera Division and hasn't been there for years, way over a decade now. There is no argument whatsoever, the rank is clear if you control your bias. It's Primera Division - a massive gap - Premiership - an even greater gap - Serie A - massive gap - leagues from Germany, France, Portugal - gap - Turkey, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine - gap - the rest in a totally random order (who cares anyway). I think I haven't forgotten about any decent league.

Hahahaha! Oh wait, you're serious? Let me laugh even more! You must've skipped this little thing called "The 20th Century". You might wanna look it up in a history book.

Seriously now, do you not know what America acted during the Cold War? Are you not aware that you make children so small they can barely even speak recite words they can't understand yet about how great America is every day? Your "nationalist" reputation seems pretty deserved from where I'm standing

Slightly less that it will cost tomorrow. You are aware it is going to happen eventually anyway, right?

Also... would it be less than the Mars Climate Orbiter?

I can't laugh anymore, please stop Significance of what the constitution says... ROFL

And Argentina is there to provide stars whose only headline is them falling short of their goal. The South American version of England if you will.

It is popular.

We get this question every couple months. I explain how in the past twenty years we went from no national league to 20 teams with a dozen stadiums for the sport and twenty thousand people average attendance. How the World Cup went from struggling to be televised to being among most watched event in the country with massive watch parties.

See you in November to answer this again.

Because Soccer sucks.  It is boring to play and more boring to watch.  This is my opinion from experience in both.

For the record I was MVP Football and wrestling at my school as well as all stars in baseball.  Not bragging just making it clear that I have been in many sports so I do have comparisons for my personal views.

There's someone that said that USA never was being any country in Olympics medal score with exception is urss, well , china was in 2008, but USA media tricked by instead of using the number of gold medals and silver and plate as 2nd and 3rd criteria , they used just the general numbers of medals so they could stay ahead, while the rest of the world counts gold medals first.

I'm not sure how exactly is your personal opinion of the game relevant to the larger issue of why isn't it (as) popular (as elsewhere) in the US.

With all the sub championships we have we are slowly becoming the new Netherlands. The real Englad of South America is Uruguay, the only difference is that Uruguay still gets titles!