soccer is the best sport in the world, but america doesn't think so, why?
596598
Because they are not the best\nthey can be bested
677878
Sports in the U.S. are very established so when our cities win the World Series or the Super Bowl they ARE the best team in the world at baseball or football. Same goes for Basketball. We have the nerve to think those sports are equivalent to a world title at sports like cricket or..soccer. I KNOW though, that if you compared the combined titles for each sport in America for FOUR years, it still would not bring the meaning it will to the country that wins this summer. We can have all the Super Bowls and World Series forever, but the poor, smelly, dirty Brasilians will still be our kings.
578645
Soccer is the best sport in the whole universe.
327317
The U.S. simply doesn't have the talent or speed to handle other teams around the world. You know a team will suck if their best player plays in the MLS. Oh and the NFL sucks the big one, NFL is almost or as gay as high school wresting.
1183089
no, U.S. will never be good at soccer because it's like the 10th favorite sport here,  all the best athletes are playing football, basketball, baseball, hockey, track, boxing, ultimate fighting, x-treme sports, should I keep going.  Soccer is bigger with woman in this country because growing up it's more or less considered a woman's' sport.  Imagine our US team with Allen Iverson, Terrell Owens, Dwayne Wade, Lebron James, Edgerin James, Reggie Bush, Justin Gatlin, and so on with someone like Kobe  or Randy Moss playing goalie.   it's fun to think about at least but really most American men think soccer is for pussies,  sorry to burst any bubbles, just speaking the truth
382982
Because America is full of ethnocentric people who think that their way is the only way and should be followed as such. FIFA might as well just ignore the US since we are the only ones hard headed enough to pick up on the fact that football is world-wide, not just an american-born game played on sundays.
274371
Soccer has to be played world wide there is no country which does not play it at some level and more people follow soccer then any religion in the world its mankind's favorite pastime....what do you think?
310180
Because the US cannot except anything that is not their own. Soccer was not created in the US, as opposed to basketball, baseball, and the fake American football. \n\nThey wouldn't know a good sport unless it was deep fried and wrapped in a hot dog bun.
1167266
because people think that the usa does not know how to play soccer.   TO THESE PEOPLE I SAY LOOK AT LAST YEAR!!!! we made it so far for our standerds. no one thought we would be able to get out of group stages.\nWE WILL SHOW THOSE DANG EUROPEANS!!!!
1126586
of course football (soccer) is better that stupid baseball!!! baseball is even not recognized as olympic sport and FIFA world championship is the biggest sports event in the world, even bigger than olympic games!\n\nonly north americans don't get it, in the rest of the world every male child plays football in the street
216230
many americans are ignorant unwilling to accept cultures or learn anything about a culture other than their own.  So don't take notice of the greatest sport in the world.\n\nIt's their we have everything we need here already philosophy, which also means that most don't travel outside their own country, great shame given proximity to South America.
475234
It's the most popular sport in the world.  However, it is really known as football around the world.  American's named it soccer because, well they needed a silly name to call it, since they had a sport named football that really doesn't make sense to call it football.
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.
1036910
Well... take it from an American. The football that you know and love isn't quite as popular here in the states as American Football. Good point made, it IS pointless that we call football soccer. I think America has a pride issue. We don't (as a whole) go nuts over soccer (football) as the rest of the planet, I wish we did, but we don't. I believe it's because we know we're not that great at it. \n\nAmerica only dominates the sports that we made up. And those are the sports that are most widely televised and merchandised, hence making them "more popular" than the world's sports. Soccer is truly The World's Sport. But, we must be stubborn.\nWhy do you think we don't use the system of standard weights and measures? We've got to be the oddball out of the world...
452993
The U.S. is such a huge country that we're completely content to compete against each other.  California is practically a different country from Texas.  There's plenty of rivalry there.\n\nI'm a World Cup fan, but there is simply no way you can expect Americans to enjoy soccer the way it's enjoyed everywhere else.  Many, many, many have tried and failed.  It's just not going to happen... especially now that television has changed how we enjoy sports.  American football, baseball, basketball: these all have built-in spots to break away for commercials.  Soccer doesn't.  That hurts its chances of gaining significant telelvision time here in the States.
328616
negative, never, the reason why  is that the us is the ONLY country in the world that calls football "soccer".
264738
yes english football is the best in the world .. but americans would never agree .. thay are in a world of their own