Why does it seem that soccer is more popular with females than males?
353908
Because men like to watch sports where the guys have time to stand around and scratch.  Soccer is a fast moving sport (not usually high scoring...another thing guys hate) but there is a lot of action.  Females don't care much for inactivity as it equals boredom.  I also love soccer.  I love the constant motion with very few breaks in the aciton.  Here is a rundown on most sports as I see them:\n\nbaseball - NO action unless player hits ball\nfootball - most of the time moves only 10 yards every hour\nbasketball - too many time outs and what fun is it to watch a game where the guys are all so tall that there is NO challenge getting the ball in the hoop...they just walk up and drop it in\ngolf - boring!  takes 10 minutes to decide to hit the ball, hit the ball, then walk for another 10 minutes, repeat
524123
Well, I feel that the reason that baseball and football are much more popular in the US is because they are both games that orginated in the US. Soccer, for instance, orgininated in European countries, and there in those countries, soccer is very popular. Sports that orginate stay the most popular in their country. Also, people sometimes dont enjoy sitting for 45 minutes straight, knowing that the second that they get up to go pee, they miss the only play of the game. And my third point is that there is much more action in both Baseball and Football than there is in soccer.
616000
I LOVE SOCCER ( football )!! Yeh ii absoloutly agree with you that its the BEST sport in the world. I love watching it on tv, especially liverpool and england, and i love to play it even though im a girl. Last year i was the best girl in my league 13 and under, and i played for my school and we won the districts. I play forward! Long live FOOTIE!!and long live MICHAEL OWEN!!
30257
yep girls get it a  lot more often but boys can get it also.
117934
According to wikipedia, over 240 million people regularly play soccer (aka football) in more than 200 countries.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer\n\nHere is a very unscientific survey of self-proclaimed most popular sports: http://www.johann-sandra.com/popular.htm
1008173
No of course not! Men are more likely to engage in sports that are physical and appealing to an audience. It's not about who's favored, its about who's playing it. When's the last time anyone drove by a basketball court and saw a group of women playing a game of half court.
595998
Soccer. Girls can be just as good as guys and aren't at a major disadvantage.
302016
Girls can play because there is a team in our division that has a girl as a kicker which is not that rare actuaily.
350893
There is no doubt it's Soccer.  That is the only major sport in all of Europe as well as South America and Central America.  \n\nAnd now that the U.S. is becoming a large and popular sport (the men's team is the 6th ranked country in the world and the women's team is the 3rd best), soccer has and will continue to top the rankings.
582592
Women's soccer is among the most popular women's sports in the USA.  It's a sport that women found that wasn't popular with men yet.  American men's soccer is gaining in popularity and caliber.  The U.S. men are actually ranked in the top ten in the world...4th, last I heard.
135564
Wow... def. basketball... there are many reasons to this... one girls like bball boys better, and the glory that goes with basketball is much more...  basketball is a much more popular sport that soccer and in my opionon, much more enjoyable...  but play both if ya can...
1100899
It has nothing to do w/the weather, or the openness of Europeans. It has to do w/the fact that too many women are completely superficial and believe that looks count for everything in this day and age. I coached girl's soccer for 11 years and I've played the sport for more than 26yrs, and I know what real female soccer players and fans look and act like. The "hootchie mamas" that we see on TV aren't real fans at all. They know next to nothing about "The Beautiful Game", couldn't name more than 3-4 players on any given team, don't know the history of the game, countries, or the tournament, and don't really understand the tactics and mentality behind the game. They're only concerned w/showing off their bodies, competing w/the other women, and getting a little TV coverage so that they can impress their friends. Sports should be left to the REAL sports fans and players, who really deserve to be at the matches.....hootchies and whores should be left at home....in bed where they belong.
24562
because a lot of girls play the sport just like people think football is a boys sport cause a lot of boys play it.
762347
here's the deal.. guys compete with eachother at sports, women compete at who can look the best (generalization of corse).. so women are more catty at least toward eachother.
254660
Thats a pretty silly generalization. There are plenty of straight althletes, softball and otherwise. I think it may be more likely that alot of people who are already lesbians have an interest in sports rather than "end up that way".
625812
Well, soccer isn't popular in the U.S., so why would a varient of it be popular?  I think it's amazing that ice hockey became as popular as it is in the U.S., and unless you're a die hard fan of it, in the U.S., you vaguely know that it even exists.
710582
I think the answer to the sports part is too obvious.  Boys are stronger than girls.  Boys are rougher than girls.  Girls cannot compete physically.  The only benefit I can see for separating the sexes during school is so that their minds won't wander so much.  Maybe they would pay more attention to their work.