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12. Your statement was "Most popular sport in the world"

Not "paid tickets to professional sports leagues".

There are NO professional sports leagues in SE Asia, China, India, the people follow country team play.

The number of individual views of football (soccer) matches on TV is counted not in millions but by the billions a year.

Only an untraveled American would equate purchasing an expensive ticket to attend a game in person as a metric

For Soccer professional league play isn't the most popular form of the sport, national team play.

In the last World Cup 3.2 billion people watched at least one game and over a billion people watched the final. That doesn't include all of the

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2015/m=12/news=2014-fifa-world-cuptm-reached-3-2-billion-viewers-one-billion-watched--2745519.html