Enjoy!

[Barcelona]

This is why soccer is the most popular sport on earth.
 
 Last sixteen in the Uefa Champions League. Check these games! Is this the best Champions League ever?
 
 FC Barcelona - Chelsea
 Manchester United - AC Milán
 Bayern Munich - Arsenal
 Real Madrid - Juventus Turin
 Oporto - Inter Milan
 
 The other three draws
 
 Werder Bremen   - O. Lyon
 Liverpool   - B. Leverkusen
 PSV    - Mónaco

[Frank Gallagher]

I'm thinking the last 8
 
 Man Utd    
 FC Barcelona
 Bayern Munich
 Juventus
 Inter Milan
 Lyon
 Leverkusen
 Monaco
 
 Had Chelski not met Barcelona....probably the strongest team in Europe this year.....I would've put them in the last eight also, Arseholes don't have the spine for the big games, and Liverpool have no right being in the last 16 in the first place.

[Guiny]

"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"

[Venerable Bede]

how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??

[nkotb]

Bayern Munich - Arsenal
 Oporto - Inter Milan
 Werder Bremen - O. Lyon
 
 Duh.
 
 

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??

[thirsty moore]

Hi-oh!

[Barcelona]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??

Have you ever been outside the US?

[Barcelona]

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
  I'm thinking the last 8
 
 Man Utd      
 FC Barcelona
 Bayern Munich
 Juventus
 Inter Milan
 Lyon
 Leverkusen
 Monaco
 
 Had Chelski not met Barcelona....probably the strongest team in Europe this year.....I would've put them in the last eight also, Arseholes don't have the spine for the big games, and Liverpool have no right being in the last 16 in the first place.

the games against AC Milan are going to be really tough. However, I still think Manchester United has a good chance given how old the Milan defenders are.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by Barcelona:
   

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??

Have you ever been outside the US? [/b]

numerous times. . .i used to have a blast in tijuana. . that donkey show is sumthin else, lemme tell ya.
 
 but to more directly answer your question, i've been to england, france, spain, italy, austria, czech republic, morocco, australia, canada and mexico. . .

[Guiny]

I've been to South Korea, Panama, Bermuda, Saudi Arabia and Germany and not once heard a conversation about soccer.

[thirsty moore]

Get off of the base man...
 
 

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
  I've been to South Korea, Panama, Bermuda, Saudi Arabia and Germany and not once heard a conversation about soccer.

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
 I've been to South Korea, Panama, Saudi Arabia...

Ah, you've seen all of U.N.C.L.E.'s garden spots.

[Barcelona]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
   

Originally posted by Barcelona:
     

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??

Have you ever been outside the US? [/b]

numerous times. . .i used to have a blast in tijuana. . that donkey show is sumthin else, lemme tell ya.
 
 but to more directly answer your question, i've been to england, france, spain, italy, austria, czech republic, morocco, australia, canada and mexico. . . [/b]

I agree that the first response was pretty poor. By the way, except for maybe Canada and Australia, in all the remaining countries you mentioned, what they call football is not the football played in the US, it is what you call soccer.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by Barcelona:
  By the way, except for maybe Canada and Australia, in all the remaining countries you mentioned, what they call football is not the football played in the US, it is what you call soccer.

do you think i'm that stupid?  i know what soccer is called in europe.  i'm asking, how is what you listed proof that soccer is the most popular sport in the world?  i don't see any japanese or south american teams there. . .how can i be sure that it is indeed the most popular sport in the world when all the teams are european?  
 
 oh, and my first answer was quite funny, especially if you've been to TJ.

[Barcelona]

No, I don't think that you are stupid, this is why your first question (how does that make it the most popular sport on earth??) seemed strange to me given that you tend to avoid this type of comments and support with arguments any idea you express in the forum. Now, I don't have any data to support my comment referring to soccer as the most popular sport on earth, but I think it is pretty obvious.
 
 The teams there were all european because I was talking about the European Champions League, the equivalent to the Libertadores Cup in South America and others in Asia and Africa.