Maybe it's to just make sure Africa gets a chance to host it?

Good point. I mean which other Afrian country could afford to be able to build big stadiums and have the facilities to welcome thousands of passionate English fans?

Hum, maybe they could do the same as Japan/Korea in 2002 and share the World Cup.. but i don't know any other african country.. perhaps egypt, i'm not sure

Both football and soccer is just boring.

Football they blow the whistle every 2 seconds and then they take like 5 min break in between, the first time I watched the superbowl the last 3 minutes of the game took more then a half an hour to finish!

Now in soccer they don't blow the whistle that much but it's just back and forth for a couple hours and you'll be lucky to see 2 goals the whole game....

Now hockey that's an exciting sport. Not blowing the whistle every 2 seconds, plenty to goals, fighting, you can't get any better then that.

Because most of the teams I used to root for sucked.

That's simply not true, almost if not all competitions have an average goals scored per match over 2 goals.

For example

• 2006 WC: 2.3 goals per match
• 2002 WC: 2.52 goals per match
• 1998 WC: 2.67 goals per match
• 2008 Olympics: 2.33 goals per match
• 2007-2008 English Premier League: 2.64 goals per match

And so on. So, it's more likely to see more than 2 goals than less in a match

exactly! ^ Football haters twisting the facts! joke.

Football (soccer) is fun to play and good cardio exercice but it's oh so boring to watch almost as bad as baseball (which I despise).

Maybe you dont have a good quality team to support? Supporting USA is almost a suicide wish i imagine.

Does that include both teams? Please tell me it's for each team!!!