Missouri_Mike
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Has nothing to do with breaks. Has everything to do with the excitement in between. Soccer has jack shit happen for a couple hours, then they take a break from the nothing happening before resuming the nothing happening for the next couple hours. Which is pretty much how Europeans and Latin Americans live their lives.Soccer is a most popular sport in Europe and Latin America.
I do agree that American sports rely on commercial TV for coverage and there is only one half-time break in soccer so that must be one reason.
Very many American children, like their counterparts in Europe, do play soccer in grade school and middle school but I imagine there is little place for it in high schools.
Perhaps, as the demand for it from students at the high school level increases, there will be support coming from their schools and communities. The demand will have to come from the ground up with neighborhoods competing and then town teams. TV will come later.
Of course we like playing soccer when we're younger because it kinda fun to play and at that level kind of exciting if you're on the field. It's not something I'm going to watch on TV though. Like golf. I like playing golf. The sheer amount of beer you can drink playing that stupid game makes it fun with the right people. I'm sure as hell not going to watch someone else play.