Why Has Soccer Not Become More Popular In the US?

mostly americans favored contact sports while your soccer is not. americans liked basketball and american football the most and they are contact sports

I agree that soccer is definately the best sport in the world and I dont know why America has not grown into it either but do agree it should becaome a much more poular sport

Don't know but David Beckham signing for LA Galaxy might raise the profile of soccer (or real football!) in the US. American Football is quite popular in the UK too though. I've seen it on tv and have been to a couple of Scottish Claymores games but I just can't work out what they are doing!

I think a lot of it stems from soccer being thought of as a wimpy sport or something that isn't manly enough. I've been to a lot of soccer games that were intense. One of my favorite jokes is, "I went to a riot and a soccer game broke out" Soccer is a great sport but I don't think Americans 'get it', maybe they need the rules explained to them. Football (American football that is) is very consuing to me and when someone stopped to explain how it works, it didn't help much LOL.

Well, I just think that americans are used to their popular sports by now for a long time and football only got across their side of the world later than usual, so it's just natural that it's not the most popular sport there by now. I do believe there's been attempts to make it grow anyways, like the 70's boom with american teams signing stars like Pelé or Eusébio, and also nowadays, with the good campaigns they've done at WC's (at least in 2002) and the well-structured MLS.

it used to be popular but its popularity soared down a lot during the ninties but its becoming popular again now after the world cup and also with beckham goin to play there in los angles there is a new hype surrounding it and will generate more people in to it , with more world famous moving there i think it will becomin more popular in u.s like it was before

well.. for me i think they r more to like basketball than soccer. NBA in USA is more popular.

Football is more popular in the USA. The other countries don't have as advanced of basketball, football, and baseball leagues as we do. They only have that one big league for soccer. If the USA were to get any intrest here in the USA it would be very hard. They would need to do many things. I think they would need some longer hair, more tattoes, and a few brawls. (just kidding) Anyways if we weren't so big in all those other sports we'd have a chance. Just the fact that these sports along with the college level of these sports as well bring so much hype it would be hard for them all to follow yet another sport. I like soccer but many others think it's more of a less contact game.

Probably because the US has so many national sports

The americans already have a lot of sports that they like and are good at such as american football, baseball and basketball. The only problem with these sports is that there are only a few countries who play them. Soccer however is like a global language loads of people know how to play and most people enjoy playing it. The world cup is like a big global gathering with countries coming from all over the world to compete and share their passions with the other teams. I think gradually though soccer will become more popular in america as the teams start to buy players from europe and will start to build a better national team.