Going back to an earlier topic, one big reason I think many Americans don't like soccer is because it's an international game at which they don't excel. There is still quite a popular and insular nationalism which believes that America is always the biggest and the best at anything important: since they are on the same level as Ghana, Iran and Greece in soccer, the obvious conclusion must be that soccer isn't important and worthy of attention.
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