Why Soccer isn’t quite popular enough Soccer also known as futbol to the rest of the world outside the United States, is surely the most popular sport in the world. Every four years, the world championship of soccer, the World Cup, is watched by billions of people all over the world, beating out the United States professional football's Super Bowl by far. It is estimated that 1.7 billion television viewers watched the World Cup final …showed first 75 words of 995 total…

…showed last 75 words of 995 total…field in a soccer game does not help the television viewers to see the whole field. Soccer is a great sport and it certainly deserves the increased attention and popularity it is getting on all levels. But because it does “fit” the television screen, it will never make it big in the United States the way these other sports have. Until bigger televisions are cheaper, soccer will be disregarded by the Basketball and football fans.