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1. Soccer only has a small professional/olympic presence in the US. It's biggest public success came from the US women's olympic soccer team.
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Actually, if you paid attention to what kids are playing, more kids in the US are playing soccer than any other sport other than skateboarding. The problem is our feeder system is a 'pay to play' system and if you want to advance you are only competing against upperclass kids. Basketball and Football are taking all the lower and middleclass kids and thats a greater talent pool.
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2. Basketball finals are currently underway. It is a much bigger sport here in the US.
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Basketball is dying on the vine.
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3. NHL is also wrapping up....much smaller sport, but still bigger than soccer.
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Have they played hockey this year? I didn't notice. They should probably put their games on TV.
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4. Time difference means that even if you are interested in Soccer, you have to watch it when you are supposed to be at work or sleeping....or record it, which means you can already find out who won by looking on Yahoo.
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True, this is a downside. Same problem as F1 and MotoGP.
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5. Oh, yeah...almost forgot about Baseball.
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Can't compete with America's pasttime, even if it ranks #2 today.
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6. The US team never had any real chance of winning anyway
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against the Czechs, NO, but they have a real good chance of beating both Ghana and Italy and move out of the Group round... to bad they'll have to play Brazil when they move out though. NOT a real chance to win the Cup, but a good chance to win for the FIRST TIME EVER on European soil in a Cup match.