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I love playing soccer. I grew up playing it and if I were in better shape and had more time I would love to play it now. That being said, I just don't enjoy watching it on t.v. I love basketball, football and baseball and I am learning about Hockey(growing up in Phoenix did not provide me with much opportunity to learn about hockey). All of these sports seem to translate better to the t.v. than soccer(with the possible exception of hockey). America is a t.v. society like it or not, and a sport's popularity is predicated on is watchability. Soccer may be the most played sport in the world, but a hell of a lot of people play racket ball and I have never seen it covered on ESPN.
Plus like a lot of people have said, American's view it as a "foreign sport" and we just prefer the things we created.
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