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[bixente]

"Why football is better than baseball (and any other sport)," by Bixente.

1. Football is the ONLY true world sport. It is played in South America. It is played in Europe. It is played in Africa. It is played in North America. It is played everywhere - football fans in Iceland, football fans in Peru, football fans in Burkina Faso...and these fans come from a massive variety of people - poor kids in Africa play football, it is their favourite activity, their favourite thing to do in life. It is treated like a religion by many. Unfortunately, this passion, which is unrivalled by any sport in the world, creates problems, hooligans, ect.

2. Unlike other sports, like American football, you can be tall and lightweight, and excel at the sport. You can be short and bulky, and excel at the sport. It doesn't matter what height, weight, amount of muscle you have - anyone can play the sport, and enjoy it, excel in it.

3. Baseball is such a simple sport - there's a pitcher, batter, fielders, ect. - but there are so many different aspects to football, so many roles you can perform - of course, there is the goalkeeper. There are the side backs, centre backs, defensive midfielders, attacking midfielders, wingers, wingers that drift to midfield, wingers that drift from the left of the pitch to the right (an excellent example of this is Belarussian Aliaksandr Hleb), and vice versa, forwards, strikers, goal poachers, winger forwards...

4. Unlike ignorant people who believe nothing happens in a match - no goals, players that pass it to each other, and NOTHING else - this is, of course, nonsense, spewed by people that have watched, at most, one match in their life. I will give you one example of many. Last season's Champions League final, of Liverpool versus Milan. The match has been going for fifty seconds. Djimi Traore, of Liverpool, fouls Kaka, of Milan. The resulting free kick results in a goal from Milan's captain, Paolo Maldini. His first goal he has scored in years. In the rest of the half, two more goals are scored, both by Argentine striker Hernan Crespo, both of them lovely goals, created by Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko and the aforementioned Kaka (beautiful through pass!). Milan lead 3-0 @ half time. Game over, considering the calibre of Milan's team. By the end of the match, Liverpool have made a miraculous comeback, and won. Incredible, one of the finest matches you are likely to see. Not a 0-0 "snorefest".

I could give countless other reasons, but I will let the sports immense popularity, speak for itself.

Wait, I have merely spouted the virtues of football, and totally ignored baseball. Apologies.