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How many people play football in the world

Basic Info
According to incomplete statistics, the current world regularly participate in the game of about 800,000 teams, registered athletes about 40 million people, of which about 100,000 professional athletes, if you want to count the infrequent play but have a hobby of soccer, more than a hundred million.
Soccer is the number one sport in the world.
The main reason why soccer has such a great charm is that there are many strong teams all over the world, and everyone has the opportunity to compete for the World Cup title. There are quite a few traditional powerhouses in the World Cup, with Brazil and Argentina in South America, and Germany, Italy, Spain, France, England and the Netherlands in Europe.
Every time the World Cup winning favorite is estimated to be no less than 10 teams, and the basketball World Cup is no suspense, the United States team strength is too strong, they have too much advantage, the world can threaten them to win the championship is only Spain, Argentina, a few teams, and the difficulty is also particularly large, and now the United States team to win the championship opponents are afraid to turn into Australia, Spain's Golden Generation and Argentina's Golden Generation have faded out.
Basketball is mainly the United States NBA influence, Europe has five major leagues, C Luo, Messi, Neymar in the global influence is still greater than James, Kobe.NBA influence is mainly in the United States, the world also has a lot of fans, but the world is only a NBA, the goal of the best players in other leagues is to play the NBA to stay out of their own country, so it creates a huge advantage of the NBA league.

The following is a comparison of soccer and basketball from all angles, to tell you what is really the world's first.


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Number of fans

Soccer: 3.3-3.5 billion fans (Europe, Africa, Asia, America, etc.)
Cricket: 2-3 billion fans (India, England, Pakistan, Australia, etc.)
Field hockey: 2-3 billion fans (Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia)
Tennis: about 1 billion fans (Europe, America, Asia)
Volleyball: about 900 million fans (Asia, Europe, America, Australia)
Table tennis: about 900 million fans (Asia, Europe, Africa, America)
Baseball: about 500 million fans (USA, Japan, Cuba, Dominican Republic)
Golf: about 400 million fans (USA, Canada, Europe)
American football: 390-410 million fans (mainly USA)
Basketball: less than 400 million fans (mainly USA, Canada, China)
The number of soccer fans should account for 1/3 of the world's population, while the number of basketball fans should account for less than 1/20 of the world's population. Soccer is the first ball of the country in almost all of the European countries, and in Brazil, Argentina and other South American countries, almost everyone loves soccer.

As far as the number of fans is concerned, soccer wins.


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Spectacle

Speaking of the process of the game, a soccer game 90 minutes plus 15 minutes of halftime. 2 hours generally absolutely complete the game. A basketball game 48 minutes often take 2 to 3 hours to finish the game, I think the current basketball game timeout fouls too much too many interruptions too much, there is no soccer field that kind of drums of gas against the attack a few rounds of that kind of atmosphere. Now look at a basketball game feel too tired to feel how time passes so slowly, a wonderful soccer game you if you are a soccer fan, hands have been pinched a sweat, a game may be nervous to the end. Soccer can be 90 minutes climax Basketball often on the last few minutes climax.
Many fans say that the intensity of the basketball game is greater than the soccer game, in fact, the real intensity or soccer is slightly stronger, the basketball game benefits from a game dozens of timeouts, so that players often have a short break. Basketball can be unlimited substitutions, soccer only 3 substitutions, if the substitution quota is used up even if you are injured, you have to fight the game to the end. In the soccer field injured with bandages or blood flow can often be seen and are basically replaced with the end of the field after the fight, and soccer a game half-time 45 minutes, if you want to run to the side of the field to drink a mouthful of water is basically impossible, unless there is a player is injured, you will be on the sidelines to see the players rushed over to drink water and then immediately return to the field. And the intensity of the confrontation of the soccer game is far greater than basketball, a foot shovel on the soccer field directly scrapped career is too much, including direct sudden death of a number of, soccer games allow reasonable collision, and these collisions are basically in the high-speed situation, pulling the jersey is a common thing, and the basketball game is a large degree of injury is the use of their own body technology movement unreasonable long-term cause of the injury. Or long-term pressure on a certain part of the body leads to, now the basketball game a collision is basically a whistle. Soccer field to the end of the cramps and vomiting can often be seen. You basically can't see the fat man on the soccer field, the tall man is quite a lot, the basketball court flexible fat man a lot of.
Soccer is the modern world without smoke war, while basketball is just a sport.


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Impact

I'm sure you know the basketball events on the nba and cba two, and soccer events, the national team side of the World Cup, the European Cup, the America's Cup, the Africa Cup of Nations, the Asian Cup of Nations, as well as all the major qualifying matches, warm-up matches, the clubs side of Europe's top five leagues La Liga, the English Premier League, the German Bundesliga, Serie A, the French Ligue 1, China has a Chinese Super League, the world's almost every country has its own soccer league.
The influence of the World Cup is not comparable to that of the NBA, and in many people's opinion, the Olympics, as a comprehensive sports event, will certainly have more influence than the World Cup, which is actually a misunderstanding. The influence of an event tends to look at its ratings, the degree of money, coverage, etc., the World Cup of these indicators of the Olympic Games is simply can not reach (except for 08 Olympic ratings), if the Olympic Games is the most concerned about basketball, ever thought that the earth only China and the United States in playing basketball, Africa as soccer for life, the Middle East to spread the money to play soccer, South America and Europe do not have to say that Japan, Korea, Australia and the powers of the time into the World Cup, the United States last year, the three major goals respectively, the World Cup. World Cup, the United States last year, the three major balls are olive, baseball, soccer, basketball did not make the list, even if the World Cup only 32 teams can not hinder the countries like China, no team into the World Cup, so that the World Cup to become the highest ratings of the tournament (China is also the world's World Cup to watch the largest number of people in the country), beside us there are a lot of people who usually do not pay attention to soccer, but on the World Cup, to the World Cup, during the World Cup for us simply do not exist, we will not have to pay attention to soccer. During the World Cup for us there is no time difference problem, Blatter said the World Cup is the biggest event on the planet, he has reason to say so, the World Cup so that every corner of the world feel into the crazy.
Basketball also has a World Championships, but the influence of the basketball World Championships is at most more than the Asian Cup, the same as the America's Cup, less than the European Cup, far less than the World Cup.

The size of the stadium

The Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has been recognized as the largest soccer stadium in the world. It can accommodate 20.5 million people, the world can accommodate 100,000 people in the soccer stadium is also countless, the United States of America, Houston, Texas Astrodome indoor basketball court can be said to be the world's largest indoor basketball court, which can accommodate the audience more than 50,000 people. The NBA's largest arena is not the Pistons' home court, the Palace of Auburn Hills Arena, with a capacity of just 22,076 people.


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Summarize:

The world, basketball and soccer is not comparable, but in the country, it is true that playing basketball more than playing soccer, on the one hand, lies in the low strength of the national football team, on the other hand, lies in the strength of China's economy, soccer is a whole nation's sport, the significance of what he stands for is unimaginable, look at the nba, maybe you'll be shocked by the player's superb skills, but when you look at the national football team, even if the strength of the poorer, the whole game is being pressed to play. When he loses, you will scold, sadness and tears, when he wins, you will feel infinite honor, you will feel proud as a Chinese, which is basketball can not give.
Looking at the world, soccer powerhouse is generally also an economic powerhouse, Europe and not to mention, Asia can enter the World Cup is Japan, South Korea and Australia, which are developed countries, with China's economic development, soccer will certainly be in China's full development, soccer in the world's influence is very great, if not to mention the Chinese mainland to host the World Cup, that is, China into the World Cup, is absolutely the country celebrates the big event.


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