Final Paper Outline

Introduction:

Thesis Statement: There is a large discrepancy between the popularity of soccer in the U.S and the popularity of soccer throughout the rest of the world.

While conducting my interviews I asked the question: What is the favorite pastime of activity in your country? In all three cases soccer was among the top two favored activities. I hypothesis that if you were to ask that question of an American, there response would include sports like Nascar, Football, Hockey, etc. Why is this? Why is soccer the renowned worldwide sport but that’s just not the case here in the U.S.

Body:

I will begin answering these questions by studying the culture of soccer in three different countries.

1.       England

a.       Has perhaps the most loyal of followings in the whole world

b.      Soccer has been a tradition there for well over 100 years

2.       South Africa

a.       Soccer is a symbol of freedom

b.      The 2010 Fifa World Cup

3.       The United States

a.       Far more diversity in culture

                                                               i.      Attributes to the variety of sport

b.      Lack of talent

                                                               i.      Low excitement for the sport

4.       Fifa

a.       How does the organization affect the popularity of soccer in the U.S and the world

                                                               i.      Positively

                                                             ii.      Negatively

Conclusion:

There is no argument that there is a lack of popularity of soccer in the U.S in comparison to the rest of the world and a variety of reasons for this. By studying the three aforementioned countries I am finally going to get an understanding as to why that is.