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Originally Posted by RyZ
Its the most played sport because it is dirt cheap for kids to play and the feild the kids play at is ususlly down the street. You can play a whole childhood worth of soccer for the price of a single hockey season. Once the kids hit club soccer (after community) the number of kids continuing falls dramatically. Once you hit 16 its almost non existant.
If all you needed to play hockey was a pair of shoes and a modest registration fee the number of kids playing would be off the charts.
Soccer is the most accessable sport for parents to put small children in but its clearly nowhere near the most popular.
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Probably one of the worst posts I've ever read on here - There's very little of what you wrote that is true. Not sure if your poorly thought out and horribly misspelled rant was just about the local soccer scene or not. But I'll assume you are talking about Calgary.
Your assertion that you can play a whole childhood worth of soccer for 1 hockey season might be true if they only played community soccer. What you need to compare is club soccer to playing Calgary Minor hockey. My son plays both and costs are roughly the same.
There are hundred's of minor soccer club teams in Calgary- registration does not fall of "dramatically" after kids finish community soccer.
Both Hockey and Soccer registrations numbers fall off after the age 14. For Soccer playing boys and girls over the age of 15 in the City of Calgary there are about 20 divisions of teams with about 10 teams per division that's over 200 teams -
almost non existant. -You're kidding right?
There are plenty of kids registered in both hockey and soccer in Calgary. Not sure how you draw any conclusion about one being clearly more popular than the other.