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Originally Posted by Kid McCoy
And yet none of these sports have ever produced an international icon equal to a Muhammad Ali or Joe Louis, who are as known through the world as Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan are in their U.S. homebase, and the nation producing the lion’s share of global sports revenue still resolutely rejects the existence of Soccer, viewing it as “a weak little sport for weak little people in weak little countries”, in the words of one sport writer.
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erm, Pele? Maradonna? Beckham?
Football (or soccer as you know it) is by far, the worlds biggest sport. Nothing else is even close.