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Originally Posted by flashfire
soccer is the most popular game in the world because it can be played anywhere by anyone one with no equipment and no money...its not the most popular because its so much more exciting or anything
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So its popular because it is inexpensive to play? OK In Europe Football is the most popular sport and we watch it because we have no money for other games? On this basis should not noughts and crosses (or tic tac toe as I think Americans call it) be the most popular sport? I mean its not especially exciting (but then neither is football apparantly) but it is bloody cheap. Heck all you need is a finger and a patch of dust.
Football is inexpensive to play, easy to understand, can be played on any surface (and most weathers) and most importantly is great fun to play and watch. This makes it accessible in way no other major sport can match which is why it is the most popular sport in the world. Football also gave birth to games like Rugby, American Football and Aussie Rules. It is the daddy. It rules it terms of paticipants, spectators, universal appeal and money. These are facts not opinions.