What makes soccer so great is that you can use your imagination to play anywhere in the world without needing to spend a single penny. The great thing is that we use to play anywhere we had space: in the streets, in the school’s recess, in an empty lot. Some kids played with their sneakers, in sandals or even barefooted. This objects could be rocks, shoes, sticks or basically anything visible. We would use two objects to mark the goal. Any of these items would be a perfect soccer ball. I grew up playing soccer with anything we found: maybe it was a can from a soda or a plastic bottle from a juice someone bought, other times we used a “tetra-pack”. Sometimes you don’t even need a soccer ball. One of the most important reasons why soccer is so popular is because it is so cheap to play.
Thankfully, I came up with a list of 17 factors that make “The Beautiful Game” the most popular sport in the world: Inexpensive Explaining why people feel so passionate about this sport is very hard even for a soccer fan like me. Soccer is the only sport in the world that is able to paralyze entire cities and countries for one single game. It is incredible how people around the world live the sport of soccer, as if it was a religion. After reading this article, you should be able to understand why soccer is so popular around the world, except in the US, and hopefully, if you don’t practice it, you may want to give it a try. Sports in general awaken passion in people, but there are a couple of things that make soccer different from other sports like baseball, basketball or american football that make it significantly more popular in the whole world. Other factors like its low cost to play and simplicity, significantly contribute to making it even more popular. So, why is soccer the most popular sport in the world? There a lot of factors that should be considered, but easily the most important one is soccer’s decentralization, meaning that is played globally instead of just in one region.
This means than more than half of the world’s population watched soccer’s greatest event. The last World cup (Russia 2018) was viewed by more than 4 billion people! I don’t know if you’ve realized than the world population is nearly 8 billion people. Every time I get to watch a World Cup I ask myself the question: What makes soccer so popular? (or football, as it is correctly name by the whole world except the US).