Enjoy!

This is why soccer is the most popular sport on earth.

Last sixteen in the Uefa Champions League. Check these games! Is this the best Champions League ever?

FC Barcelona - Chelsea
Manchester United - AC Milán
Bayern Munich - Arsenal
Real Madrid - Juventus Turin
Oporto - Inter Milan

The other three draws

Werder Bremen - O. Lyon
Liverpool - B. Leverkusen
PSV - Mónaco

I'm thinking the last 8

Man Utd :D
FC Barcelona
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Inter Milan
Lyon
Leverkusen
Monaco

Had Chelski not met Barcelona….probably the strongest team in Europe this year…..I would've put them in the last eight also, Arseholes don't have the spine for the big games, and Liverpool have no right being in the last 16 in the first place.

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how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??

Bayern Munich - Arsenal
Oporto - Inter Milan
Werder Bremen - O. Lyon

Duh.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??

Hi-oh!

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??

Have you ever been outside the US?

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
I'm thinking the last 8

Man Utd :D
FC Barcelona
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Inter Milan
Lyon
Leverkusen
Monaco

Had Chelski not met Barcelona….probably the strongest team in Europe this year…..I would've put them in the last eight also, Arseholes don't have the spine for the big games, and Liverpool have no right being in the last 16 in the first place.

the games against AC Milan are going to be really tough. However, I still think Manchester United has a good chance given how old the Milan defenders are.

Originally posted by Barcelona:

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??

Have you ever been outside the US?

numerous times. . .i used to have a blast in tijuana. . that donkey show is sumthin else, lemme tell ya.

but to more directly answer your question, i've been to england, france, spain, italy, austria, czech republic, morocco, australia, canada and mexico. . .

I've been to South Korea, Panama, Bermuda, Saudi Arabia and Germany and not once heard a conversation about soccer.

Get off of the base man…

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
I've been to South Korea, Panama, Bermuda, Saudi Arabia and Germany and not once heard a conversation about soccer.

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
I've been to South Korea, Panama, Saudi Arabia…

Ah, you've seen all of U.N.C.L.E.'s garden spots.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by Barcelona:

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??

Have you ever been outside the US?

numerous times. . .i used to have a blast in tijuana. . that donkey show is sumthin else, lemme tell ya.

but to more directly answer your question, i've been to england, france, spain, italy, austria, czech republic, morocco, australia, canada and mexico. . .

I agree that the first response was pretty poor. By the way, except for maybe Canada and Australia, in all the remaining countries you mentioned, what they call football is not the football played in the US, it is what you call soccer.

Originally posted by Barcelona:
By the way, except for maybe Canada and Australia, in all the remaining countries you mentioned, what they call football is not the football played in the US, it is what you call soccer.

do you think i'm that stupid? i know what soccer is called in europe. i'm asking, how is what you listed proof that soccer is the most popular sport in the world? i don't see any japanese or south american teams there. . .how can i be sure that it is indeed the most popular sport in the world when all the teams are european?

oh, and my first answer was quite funny, especially if you've been to TJ.

No, I don't think that you are stupid, this is why your first question (how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??) seemed strange to me given that you tend to avoid this type of comments and support with arguments any idea you express in the forum. Now, I don't have any data to support my comment referring to soccer as the most popular sport on earth, but I think it is pretty obvious.

The teams there were all european because I was talking about the European Champions League, the equivalent to the Libertadores Cup in South America and others in Asia and Africa.

Originally posted by Barcelona:
No, I don't think that you are stupid, this is why your first question (how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??) seemed strange to me given that you tend to avoid this type of comments and support with arguments any idea you express in the forum. Now, I don't have any data to support my comment referring to soccer as the most popular sport on earth, but I think it is pretty obvious.

i guess i'm just asking a rhetorical question. . .but how is listing teams in the UEFA champions league proof that soccer is the most popular sport in the world? for example, if i listed the playoff match-ups from the baseball playoffs this year, how would that be any different than what you said? the reasoning is exactly the same. . .after all, mexico, dominican republic, cuba, japan, and south korea all have baseball leagues as well.

i'm not arguing whether soccer is the most popular sport, but how what you said is proof that it is.

Originally posted by Barcelona:


The teams there were all european because I was talking about the European Champions League, the equivalent to the Libertadores Cup in South America and others in Asia and Africa.

To play the part of the devils advocate because there are a ton of other facts that prove soccer is the world's most popular sport, but most of Europe could fit in the states, so by showing the Spain is playing England is playing Germany is playing Itlay, etc, does nothing to prove your point. It's similar to saying New York is playing LA is playing Boston equalling 3,000 miles and hunders of millions of people.

I like:

Barca
United
Arsenal
Real Madrid
Inter Milan
Lyon
Leverkusen
PSV

My comment came from the fact that I am working in South America and it was pretty amazing the coverage that papers and tv stations gave to the draws in the last sixteen.

Yes, countries like Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela have their own national baseball leagues and I believe they play a regional tournament with their best teams, but this is a pretty small sample of Latin American countries. On the other hand, you have the Libertadores Cup with teams from all around South America (except for the small three countries north of Brazil) and Mexico (teams from other countries in Central America don't play but that is not because soccer is not popular, other reasons). You also have continental cups in Africa and Asia. This is pretty difficult to find in other sports, except maybe in tennis with the Davis Cup. But anyway, I wasn't trying to argue that soccer is more popular than any of the four main sports in the US. It is just that it is pretty nice how countries all over the world follow the European Champions League, something that doesn't happen with other sports.

Soccer is for Bear Guys.