The amount of people that watch the 2012 Super Bowl was 111 million worldwide, might seem like a very large audience unless you compare it to the amount of people that watched the 2012 Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea with a staggering amount of over 200 million viewers worldwide. (Harry) Soccer is without a doubt the world’s most popular, although, it is not the most popular sport in the United States. It is true soccer, or football how the rest of the world calls the sport, is not the most popular sport in the United States but its popularity is rapidly increasing. “Rich Luker, a 59-year-old baseball-loving social scientist based in North Carolina, is the brains behind the ESPN Sports Poll, the complex database that recently pronounced soccer as America 's second-most popular sport for those age 12-24, outstripping the NBA, MLB and college football” (Bennet). Immigration into the United States has greatly contributed to the increase in the popularity of soccer. Also, the ease of watching soccer on the television has greatly increased. Soccer brings a sense of community to fans that they are not able to obtain with any other sport. Contrarily, soccer is a low-scoring, low pace, and has little contact which prevents many Americans from enjoying the sport. What if the way the game is played has nothing to do with why more people are joining the sport? We are living in financially difficult times, and due to this we have seen a growth in the participation of soccer.…