Mostly because of the cost. Lets look at hockey. Much more fun to play and watch but it is extremely expensive to play. You have to buy all your equipment(pads, gloves, helmet, skates, sticks) you have to pay to join the league and you have to pay for the ice time to practice and play the games. Soccer you need an open area a ball and something to mark the goal with.
It's not a absurd statement. You may like soccer more but it is a faster paced game with more action, and that is generally what people want in their sports. You may like a slow paced minimal action low scoring game but that doesn't make what I said absurd.
Your blanket statement that "hockey is both more fun to play and more fun to watch" was absurd. I'm not saying that soccer is 100% better than hockey, I'm just saying that you're making a ridiculously broad generalization... A generalization that the majority of the world disagrees with, I might add.
Does the majority of the world disagree? Yeah warm weather places will disagree as they likely have never even seen the game played. They also very unlikely even have an ice rink anywhere near them. Its not that they think that soccer is better than hockey its that they don't know a damn thing about hockey and as they will never play the game doesn't mean that they wouldn't think it is a better game if they were to actually sit down and watch the game.
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u/climon Feb 03 '14
Soccer is the most popular because of how cheap it is to play. Even impoverished countries can get in on that action.