Soccer is the best sport in the world

Why soccer is the greatest sport in the world. A1: It's a global sport. Soccer (football) is the sport played most consistently around the world. It's not sectioned off or dominated by one particular country. According to FIFA's Big Count survey, there are 265 million players actively involved in soccer around the world, roughly 4 percent of the world's population. Sports like American football however, are predominantly played and watched by only one country. http://www.fifa.com... A2: The rules are pretty simple. Give or take a few offsides, free kicks, and yellow cards vs. red cards. The main objective is to score. That's it. Score and try not to let the opponent score on you. Put the ball by the goalkeeper who also has pretty simple rules to follow too. Don't let the other team score. What could be easier to understand than that? A3: Minimal equipment is required. No really, set up some cones and have a ball and you're good to go. Meaning you can play anywhere at any time. A4: Size is not a big factor. Soccer may be the professional sport where size matters the least. Some of the world's best players like Messi, Maradona, and Romario have an average height of 5'5 or 5'6. A5: You need to be in incredible shape to keep up. You're basically running up and down the field for 90+ minutes, especially if you're a midfielder. This is no game for anyone who tires easily. A6: Soccer has no offseason. For the best players in the world, there's a league season, league cup(s), a club championship, and international games going on all at once. If that's not enough, almost every summer there's an international cup or competition, not to mention friendliest and World Cup qualifiers. Which brings up my next point. A7: "The World Cup shouldn't be called a World Cup if not every country competes." Every country does compete. Maybe not in the final tournament, but in the beginning, almost every country that you can think of is competing for a place in the final tournament. From Argentina to San Marino. The reason they don't have a giant tournament for every country to compete in is because that would take FOREVER to complete. It takes about a month for 32 teams to finish 3 group stage matches, the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals, 3rd place match, and a final. Could you imagine a tournament with 208 teams. Not only would the tournament take forever to complete but it would also be unfair and the powerhouses would be in the final stages anyways. You wouldn't want to watch a game like Brazil vs. Somalia for a World Cup group stage match. Brazil would win by so much that it's just embarrassing. Also the World Cup is a great reason to party. The FIFA World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world. Around 715 million people watched the World Cup final match in 2006 between France and Italy. The 2010 World Cup was broadcasted in 204 different countries on 245 different channels. A8: International friendlies are a great way for fans to watch the top teams go up against each other without spending a fortune for World Cup tickets. A friendly is exactly what it sounds like: two teams playing for fun. These games cost a significant amount less than World Cup tickets which is good for fans. A9: It's just beautiful to watch. Especially when players pull off the most incredible tricks. Bicycle kicks, Rabona goals, step overs, roulettes, 35-yard free kick screamers. So much to look out for in this game. So many ways to score goals and get past your opponent. A10: The chants that us fans make at games. If you've ever watched a soccer game on TV or been to a soccer game in person. You'll know that the fans make so much noise. Chanting for their teams. Singing songs to get their team pumped up. It's just so loud and a beautiful amount of noise, except for the vuvuzelas. Those just sounded like a bunch of bees. Nevertheless, even with the vuvuzelas, every fan in the stadium had one and blew them for their favorite team. Singing or instruments you can always find a bunch of passionate fans making noise for their favorite team.