why are usamericans the only ones in the world who could care less about soccer?
349555
Because they have a problem or course.  Americans like the sports they invented and just for this reason they think US sports are the best.  But Football the original, not American football, has greater dimensions than any other sport, and that is why the whole world knows it's the best.
1183329
There are a few reasons that I suspect:\n1. they don't take the time to understand the game\n2. they like slower paced games...all that running is too stressful for the watchers\n3. they like high scoring games (which soccer isn't because it is a more difficult game than other sports)\n4. since it was not a sport that originated in the U.S., they don't want to embrace it...might be seen as unAmerican\n\nPersonally, I love soccer.  I love the constant action and the lack of those ridiculous time outs that most other sports have.
1104884
Wow! So, are we not allowed to be excited about what is quite possibly the best team we've ever had? \n\nI have no illusions about how our team matches up to the rest of the world but they are still my team and I'll support them and cheer just as loudly when they are losing as when they are winning. I can't stand fair-weather fans who only support their team when they are winning.\n\nAnd, you are right, America needs to make some major changes to its soccer program if we want to be competitive with the rest of the world. I believe that it will happen and that it is happening right now. MLS is on the rise and as soon as it's popularity increases enough that the salaries become more respectable there is no reason we can't have the best team in the world. Look at the talent playing American Football, Basketball and Baseball? If the young talent in this country chose soccer over our more "traditional" sports there is no reason we couldn't dominate.
1064131
soccer is only broadcasted on TV when the americans play or when the local MLS team plays. if people want americans to become more supportive of soccer on scale close to or equal to the NFL, MLB, NBA, even the NHL, and college sports (football and basketball) they need to broadcast more games particularly the european league games. occasionally i'll find a Manchester United or Chelesea game on but never Arsenal or Juventes. "short term soccer fans" are only exposed to soccer when it is pretty much the only thing on during the WC and they need to be exposed to more soccer even if it means going to local high school or college games to learn how amazing this sport is. I'm a die hard soccer fan and always will be b/c i respect the game and love it with a passion only shared with non-short term soccer fans.\n\nGO USA SOCCER!!
1109467
I assume you mean, for us Americans, soccer.  If you were American, you'd know how very few outside America play American "football," and you'd say soccer.  You can't possibly be so arrogant an Amerrican (of course they are many) to think that American football matters elsewhere.  For all of the rest of the world, without exception and without a doubt, and I've lived all over, football, or per American English, soccer is the main sport.  People may play basketball, cricket, or tennis, but nothing occupies the sports scene like football.  It's the world national pastime.  Every kid in the world, boy and girl, with or without the right numbers of players or a stadium has kicked a ball trying to score, growing up.  Every country wants the World Cup.  Billions watch it.  The main sport on earth...
1083128
i agree with so many other major sports to watch.. no one going to care who running up and down a greenfield.. theres no action in soccer.. it makes me wonder why it affects a country's situation so much
593111
Because those Americans don't really care about what happens in the rest of the world, so it makes no difference for them whether or not Africa is a country or a continent or whatever.
1146265
YES, i agree all the way, but i still dont know why most americans dont like the World Cup\ni hope they realize their team is representing the entire nation
1046916
First of all the US aren't out by a longshot. Second, what the hell is rounder? Third, I'm tired of all you British sissy's, or whatever country you're from, dissing us. In the past we may not have cared about soccer or had a good team, but now we do. Take 4 years ago in the last World Cup for example. US makes the Q-Finals, further than your precious England. And lost to the eventual runner-up by one goal in a game that most people agree we should've won.\n\nFREE SCOTLAND NOW
1099560
Actually I think it is because they do not have the drive to want to play in the World Cup as all the other countries do..\n\nJust look at the game between USA and Ghana...\n\nThis is Ghana's FIRST appearence in the World Cup and they advanced to the next round, and yet USA has qualified for the World Cup since 1990 and still lost..\n\nIt goes to show that they do not truly have the desire to want to play soccer and be in the World Cup
723125
A lot of people in the US care about the world cup because most Americans are immagrants from europe and south and central americas. \n\nHowever it is hard to get excited when the games are on at 5am in the morning or midnight in 2002.\n\nIt does not get media coverage though.
574731
most american ppl dont watch MLS. football, baseball and basketball is where it's at
13538
definetly it is the sport of the world america is about the only place on the planet that doesnt rate soccer as its favorite sport
1082888
I am. Have you ever noticed that when ESPN or ABC go to the halftime report, no matter what game is going on, they end up talking about the US team. Literally within seconds of the halftime report. \n\nI admire that Americans are patriotic but sh*t have a little balance in your reporting of the world cup.\n\nQuit calling it soccer, its football.\n\nBut to all Americans who love football, big up and keep on trying. Rome wasn't built in a day.
1061459
From what I gather (from asking Americans themselves and from other souces as well), Americans don't like soccer for two main reasons.  \n\nNumber one, they don't like soccer because of the limited score margin that soccer offers.  The sports on the good side of the American psyche (basketball, American football, baseball...) all are high scoring games with tons and tons of points.  The only exception is ice hockey... even it goes upto 5 and 6 points per team (happens sometimes in football- just last week, Serbia 0 - Argentina 6).   Oh, and Americans never settle for a draw.  It's either win or lose in the Land of the Free, baby!!\n\nSecondly, they think that soccer is a non-contact sport (which I think is nonsense - I mean, just look at the amount of shoving and tackling...).  Americans just love contact sports.  Another exeption to this generalization is baseball... but then, one can only imagine what would happen if people were to "contact" each other with baseball bats... (cracked skulls, broken teeth - the whole Mafia treatment).
532918
People that think that 1 % of USA like football is on crack...\neven if it is 25% of the US that is still over 50 mill people...over half the small nations in the WC don't even have that many in their country.\nSoo since we have the number 1 economy in the world...\nA lot of people go to World Cups.\nI'm not rich but have had major surgeries.That is why friends are helping me go check out Ghana & USA.\nGO USA!!
1035575
Because, unlike other countries, the U.S. did not establish soccer (or football as it's known for the rest of the world) as a nationally loved sport. The U.S. lavished their support for baseball and basketball, like most countries but our third sport is American Football. I don't remember seeing soccer much at all on TV when I was little which is pretty rare for a Hispanic girl. I instead saw baseball and American Football (which isn't football at all because the NFL uses their hands). Soccer has only become more of a recognized sport here with the US team going to the World Cup and more cities making their own soccer teams.\n\nAmerica's always wanted to be different (can we say measurement system?) than other countries and sometimes the citizens will suffer. I have only now gotten into soccer because of watching the World Cup games. I'm sad that I had missed out on such an excellent and exciting sport for so long.