Futbol, Football: The Most Popular Sport

Improved Essays
Futbol, football, or in America we call it like to call Soccer, is the worlds most popular sport. The World Cup which occurs every four years and consist of 32 different teams that represent their country. Where as in the “World Series” only two American teams are represented. So why call it the World series?
The process to make it into the World Cup goes on for three years. Up to 209 teams are eligible to qualify but only 32 make it to the big stage. The world is divided into 6 different groups, AFC, OFC, CONMEBOL, CAF, UEFA, and CONCACAF. Top teams from each group are given the opportunity to play for the prestige World Cup trophy. In baseball there is the American and National league, with 30 teams all together.
Last World Series there were about 14.7 million viewers which isn’t the most televised in baseball game in history. Baseball didn’t even make the top 8 most watch watched sporting event. During the 2014 World Cup, which was held in Brazil, just in America 26.5 million tuned in to watch Germany beat Argentina in extra-time. The World Cup also created chaos on the web.
…show more content…
Throughout the baseball regular season there are a 100 plus games played. In the first image is a regular season San Francisco Giants game. The photographer is defiantly capturing this image from across the stadium and about same level. As you can see some fans are jumping for joy, others are seating in excitement, and most not even paying attention. The angle and area which the photographer specifically choose to shoot, gives off the impression he wanted to exposed the typical fan at a baseball game. Each and every fans seems to be on a different page or watching a different game. As you can see there is a slight blur on the right hand side of the image, which indicates this couldn’t have been staged, also due to the fact the number of fans captured in the

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, with 3 billion adoring fans all across the globe. However, American football is the USA’s most popular sport, with 410 million fans. Soccer is played with a round ball, where 11 men try to kick the ball into the other team’s net, without using their hands. Football, on the other hand, is played with an oval shaped ball, where 11 men are given four downs to get a first down or score a touchdown, either by passing the ball or running the ball.…

    • 1179 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There is no question that in American society baseball is America’s pastime. Although, most American’s would argue that football has taken over as the most popular sport in America. But for those who truly admire the game, like me, would absolutely disagree. Watching two rival teams duel it out from the first pitch to the last, or a pitcher going for a no-hitter, nothing is more exciting. '' Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball,'' Jacques Barzun, the social commentator, wrote more than a quarter of a century ago.…

    • 1015 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Baseball is a sport favored by many Americans today and also known as “Americas past time.” A sport, parents put their children into as soon as they can to get them to grow friendships at a young age and a passion for the game. A sport, where most fathers and his family cannot wait to watch their favorite MLB team clinch the playoffs and, battle for a chance to play in the World Series. Come the month October, Bars, Sports Restaurants, and Living rooms across America are filled to maximum capacity with nervous but, excited fans to watch the MLB playoffs and World Series.…

    • 1006 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sports History in 1910s Many things were happening in the 1910s. Many sports were becoming popular. Baseball was popular. Hockey was becoming known. Basketball was just starting out and becoming more and more popular every day.…

    • 893 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    World War I was finally over, and interest in Baseball had peaked as fans across the nation followed the games. Baseball was America’s Pastime with people tuning in to listen to every game on the radio. Despite rumors of the 1919 World Series fix, most fans believed that baseball was still pure and that the games were played to the best of the player’s abilities. However, baseball would change forever in 1920 as suspicions turned into confessions.…

    • 1301 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Global Effects The Super Bowl utter dominance within the U.S. fails to translate onto the international stage. It is behind a number of sports, such as soccer, rugby, even cricket. It’s American-centric base excludes the rest of the world, as other countries are much more focused on sports where their own people are competing. Even when referring to the sport, one must say “American Football”, rather than just football, as the rest of the world uses that term for soccer.…

    • 961 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Stadiums also contribute to the popularity of baseball. In the 1920’s, Wrigley Field and Fenway Park had a capacity of almost twenty thousand, now both fields hold nearly forty five thousand. Stadiums are also now filled with sponsorships, concessions, and newer technology drawing more attention to fans enjoyment and filling the teams with more profit…

    • 1076 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Baseball is the game that really shaped sports in America. It was played during war times just for fun so the soldiers had something to do. It is also known as our nation 's pastime. In the year 1845 baseball in America started up.…

    • 1160 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Unlike college baseball games, professional games are full with thousands of fans, compared to a couple hundred. These fans are hollering for their team like it is their own family. Also the professionals are the best players in the world. Fans aren’t watching unexperienced kids straight from high school strike out, they are watching mature ball players hit baseballs out into the parking lot. Finally, the personal investment and bond fans create with players.…

    • 1269 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Soccer Persuasive Speech

    • 447 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Americans are all about football and don’t see the beauty of soccer and what it brings. Soccer is played all around the world. According to FIFA's most recent Big Count survey, there are 265 million players actively involved in soccer around the world, roughly about 4 percent of the world's population.…

    • 447 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Since its conception, the beautiful game of soccer has been a sport played all over the world, played by many ages and admired by all. In Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa, soccer is as big of a deal, if not more, than American football is in the United States. While soccer has not been in the United States for that long, the American people do not elevate it to the same status as they do baseball, basketball, or football. In the rest of the world, soccer is considered to be their pastime and they watch it at all times of the year and have a great love and respect for the game that cannot be compared to a love for another sport.…

    • 1438 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    MOBA Controversy

    • 915 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The final round of the collegiate championship for Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's answer to hugely popular MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) games League of Legends and Dota 2, was broadcast live on ESPN2 on Sunday July 20, 2014 6:30PM PT. This marks the first time that ESPN aired an eSports match on live TV. ESPN also streamed the League of Legends Finals online the year before, and that brought and that brought in more viewers than the NBA Finals or the deciding game in the World Series. This created a lot of controversy online and is a big step in accepting gaming as a professional competition like it should be. Some videogames have more traits of a sport than some sports yet are ridiculed and are considered nothing but child’s play.…

    • 915 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Although they are both very popular bat-and-ball games, baseball is more enjoyable because it is easy to understand. Baseball is most commonly played in the western hemisphere. Some countries baseball is played in is the United States, Canada, China, Mexico, and more. Cricket is played mostly in the eastern hemisphere. England, Canada, Australia, India, and others are countries cricket is played in.…

    • 765 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Soccer Argumentative Essay

    • 1420 Words
    • 6 Pages

    television viewers of the 2010 World Cup Final between Spain and the Netherlands — more than watched the Rose Bowl (24.04 million), the NCAA men 's college basketball championship (23.99 million) or the Winter Olympics closing ceremony (21.4 million).”("Soccer by the Numbers: A Look at the Game in the U.S." NBC News. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.) . The fact that Americans are realizing how much better futbol is is leading them to try to make superstars “The United States has never produced a Lionel Messi”(Ripley, Amanda.…

    • 1420 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What is this course? In a future interview, I may be asked, “What is this course ‘Sport in Modern Society’ on your UIUC transcript?” I would give the following response: “Sport in Modern Society was a general education elective that I took as a freshman. I was originally taking another computer science class but decided to drop it and pick up another general education elective.…

    • 985 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays