Basically what are the elements that make Football the most popular sport in the World and the World Cup the biggest event on Earth with 2/3 of the World population watching?
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Unlike many sports you need very little to play.  All you need is a ball and a few jackets for posts.  For many games you cannot play a proper game without extra equipment etc.\nAlso it is rely simple.  The basic rules are very easy to grasp.  It is also easy to play.  By that I mean that with a basic grasp of the rules you can pick up a ball and have a game.  That's not to say it doesn't involve skill.  What I mean is that you don't have to start early and can still enjoy a kick about.\nIt also is accessible to all.  Sports like basketball favour a certain type of person.  It would be incredibly difficult to play basketball well if your short.  Football is different in that anyone who is fit and puts in the effort has a chance.\n\nSo by all that I mean that football in accessible to all.  That makes it very appealing.
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It is about Johnny Warren who has always been saying that football can become the most popular and the biggest sport in Australia.\n\nhttp://rankandvile.dailyflute.com/?p=255
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There is only one sport that i like to play/watch and that is soccer because it is so much fun, and is an easy game to learn. My favourite part about the game would have to be the fans because if they feel that their team can do well they give the stadiums a positive atmosphere and then the players feed off of their fans energy and do the best that they can.
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The reasons soccer is fast becoming the most popular sport the world has ever known:\n\n1.  The rules are increadibly simply - anybody can understand them.\n\n2.  Playing football requires nothing more than a ball - therefore football matches are easy to organize... Where as organizing a cricket match (for example) requires a few humdred pounds worth of hardware and a biliard-table-flat strip of turf\n\n3.  Football's scoring system offers the most valuable currency of all sports.  Ie.  One single point can win a match... where as one point in Rugby isnt that valuable and one point in cricket is hardly even worth a clap.   The valuable currency makes for feverish excitement when points are scored. \n\n4.  The relentless expantion of the football season, blanket press coverage and high power ad campaigns have raised the sports profile imeasuraby.
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Of course. The world cup is the greatest sports stage in the world. The world cup is the world's best fighting for a gold trophy.\nPeople might say that olympic soccer is close but it is not seeing that no professionals can play. The world cup is the best.
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199,854 people - Brazil v. Uruguay in the World Cup at the Maracana Municipal Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, July 1950.\nSource-Sam
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Football (or soccer as you call it), has never been, and never will be, a game where the scores run into double figures. That's half the excitement/heartbreak of it. Knowing that a game can turn in a split second, with one incident.\n\nIt's because of this that it's unique in it's universal appeal for hundreds of millions of people, from all races and cultures.\n\nAnd if you look closely enough, you could say all sports are linked. Most use some kind of ball and are played in a specific, marked out area.
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Futbol is a passion. Every little kid plays wants to be like Ronaldo, Maradona, Pele, Valderrama, Beckham, or Roberto Carlos. Futbol is not as complicated (money for equipment) as other major sport. For soccer all you need is a ball and the goal can be anything sometimes you don't even need a goal. Futbol is so big that when your national team plays everything stops, even the churches close during game time. The world cup is the biggest event in the sport, is when the best teams of the world get to fight for the title of World Champions. Even if your country does not make to the final, you still want to see the greatest teams battle it out.
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Brazil is because there are so many good players and many young players they have recruited. They play soccer like everyday. Brazil won the last world cup.
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Football is the most popular sport in the world and played by more than 250 nations. So it is no doubt that World Cup in Germany is most happening thing in the world right now.\nEverybody around the world would be interested to know what is happening there.
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SOCCER IS THE ONLY UNIVERAL SPORT PLAYED ALL OVER THE WORLD. EVEN IN COUNTRIES THAT DON'T HAVE ANY MAJOR SPORTS IN THERE COUNTRIES AND SOCCER IS THEIR PASSION. AND CAUSE IT'S GETTING SOOOOOOO CLOSE TO THE WORLD CUP AND THE FACT THAT THE WORLD CUP IS ONLY EVERY 4 YEARS AND SO MANY GAMES ARE PLAYED DURING THOSE 4 YEARS THAT IT'S ALL WORTH WHAT U PLAYED FOR AND WORKED HARD TO GET THERE.
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Football is my greatest passion, although it has only been so for the last 6 years.  Previous to that I was busy having babies and working all hours, no time to watch TV.  But now my kids are grown up and I can watch as much as I like.  My favourite to win the FIFA World Cup 2006 has to be England, but I will be keeping an eye on France also (Thierry Henry)
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I've yet to understand the popularity of baseball myself but hey to each there own.  When I ask my family about world cup and I have to tell them it's soccer. They roll their eyes and yawn.  To those that never played the game it is rather boring and you can catch all the action on the highlight reel of the late night news.  When you get down to it, when one doesn't know someone that's actually playing it's hard to spark interest.  Baseball players, basketball etc...have become household names and hence an increase of popularity.
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This game is so popular for many reasons. 1) The poor can play this game(majority of the worlds population). Any little boy can one day make it. You don't have to have parents taking you to practise every day.2) The simplicity of it. A ball, use your feet and score! We use our hands every day but not on the green pitch.3) The passion of the fans. 100k in a stadium chanting and wearing their teams colours. This is not a sport in some places it is a religion.
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There is in an international body governing this sport, so it's safe to say that soccer is the exactly  same sport in every part of the world, and it is call football instead of soccer,\nThe international governing body is referred to as FIFA, from the French "Federation Internationale de Football Associatif" (International Federation of Associative Football). The FIFA defines a soccer  calendar and the culmination of it is the World Cup which is held every 4 years at alternating locations. Only the best countries of each continent will go to compete, in total there are 32 countries.\nThe 32 countries are divided in 8 groups, with 4 team in each group.\nFirst Phase :\nEach team plays agains the other teams of his group.(Total 3 games per team)\nThe winner and runner-up of the group avance to the next phase.\n\nSecond Phase (group of 16):\nFrom this phase on it's one on one.\nThe winner of the game avance to the next phase\n\nThen the next phases are quaterfinals, semifinals and final.\nIn total, the teams that get to the final plays 7 games.\n\n For the 2006 world cup the 32 countries are:\nGroup 1: Germany, Poland, Ecuado and Costa Rica\nGroup 2: England, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Sweden\nGroup 3: Argentina, Côte d'Ivoire, Serbia and Montenegro, and Netherlands\nGroup 4: Mexico, Iran, Angola and Portugal\n\nGroup 5: Italy, Ghana , USAand Czech Republic\nGroup 6: Brazil, Croatia, Australia and Japan\nGroup 7: France, Switzerland, Korea Republic and Togo\nGroup 8: Spain, Ukraine, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia
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Talent is a big part of it.  However, its not the only part and maybe not even the most important.  I would say DESIRE is a big one.  Intelligence is, too, or at least understanding the sport and its inner workings.
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I love it the most because it is the only sport that has a soul. It can get your emotions and is the only one that really bridge the gaps of nations. Plus either you are a player or spectator, you will really love this game. Another thing that makes this sport very nice is the simplicity of playing the game: not so much rules. \n\nBy the way, enjoy the Champions League Final and the World Cup! I also hoped you enjoyed the FA Cup final. That was fantastic!!!