What is the Worlds most popular sport?

[rossco24/7]

What is the Worlds most popular sport?



I am sure it is football

[LC Trucido]

Football as in American football, or football as in soccer?

[rossco24/7]

soccer - as those americans call it

[tanda]

In terms of the amount of people who play it, football wins. Most other sports need special fields and equipment just to even play, where in football you just need something to kick and some space to do it in.

[Random]

I dont understand all world call football as football and only americans call it as soccer

[mondine]

Originally Posted by Random

I dont understand all world call football as football and only americans call it as soccer

Largely because the other sport called "football" in North America is a successfully packaged product, and a big business.

Once something gets misnamed over here, it tends to stay that way.
Just ask the "American Indians".

[coron]

In America we are just stubborn and refuse to change anything. (Yes I do want the metric system.)

Soccer, obviously! Everybody knows it.img src="/richedit/smileys/Happy/1.gif" border="0"

[Atokad]

Soccer ( American ) Football ( Everywhere else ) would have to be the best. I have played it all of my life and i quit just recently due to my knees getting worse and worse as the years go by. I want to be still able to play but i dont want to have to live in a wheel chair the rest of my life . I believe that it is the best sport because 9/10 people in the world have played it no matter where they are or what they do, how old they are, etc.

That is why i believe soccer/football is the best sport.

[wasim_at_drushti]

Football Of CoursebrbrFootball is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports. The most popular of these worldwide is Association football, which also goes by the name of soccer. The English language word football is also applied to Rugby football (Rugby union and rugby league), North American football (American and Canadian), Australian rules football, and Gaelic football.brSome of the many different codes of football.brEnlargebrSome of the many different codes of football.brbrWhile it is widely believed that the word football originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, there is a rival explanation, which has it that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.[1] These games were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports often played by aristocrats. While there is no conclusive evidence for this explanation, the word football has always implied a variety of games played on foot, not just those that involved kicking a ball. In some cases, the word football has been applied to games which have specifically outlawed throwing the ball. (See football (word) for more details.)brbrAll football games involve scoring with a spherical or ellipsoidal ball (itself called a football), by moving the ball into, onto, or over a goal area or line defended by the opposing team. Many of the modern games have their origins in England, but many peoples around the world have played games which involved kicking and/or carrying a ball since ancient times.brbrThe object of all football games is to advance the ball by kicking, running with, or passing and catching, either to the opponent's end of the field where points or goals can be scored by, depending on the game, putting the ball across the goal line between posts and under a crossbar, putting the ball between upright posts (and possibly over a crossbar), or advancing the ball across the opponent's goal line while maintaining possession of the ball.br