LeBron only the 7th most popular athlete in the world...

[fragokota]

I'll never understand soccer's global popularity. I've made a genuine effort to follow and learn about the game, but I just can't get into it.

It's unpredictable and often enough not the best team wins. In every other team sport, pretty much most of the times the best team wins. Not so in football, it may sound bizarre and unfair, but it makes it very interesting that you never know what upset every game may bring. It's more easy for the David to win the Goliath team than say basketball.

[imdaman99]

Is Maria Sharapova not the most overrated female in the world, looks wise. She's a good looking woman but nothing to drool over. Never understood the hoopla over her.

Eugenie on the other hand...

Sharapova is very much overrated. I can't watch any of her matches either because she shrieks like a banshee. She is nice looking, but hardly anywhere nearly as attractive as Anna Kournikova was. And it's not as if she is some dominant winner, she is Serena's btch.

[Genaro]

There's washed up or retired players on the list because you don't just unfollow a player you like just because he gone old.

Kaka? Isn't that a toned down word that has the same meaning as the word shit?

No. Caca (pronounced Kaka) means shit but Kak

[JohnMax]

Notice beautiful people are liked more

Ronaldo is ranked above Messi and Beckham above Ronaldinho

[jzek]

Kaka at number 4?
How outdated is this thing?

Kaka is only 31 years old and was on the Brazilian national team (!!!!!) that played Japan a month or so ago so, yes, he's still very relevant and popular (just not in the US because we don't pay attention to soccer here).

[pauk]

Soccer.........

[pauk]

I'll never understand soccer's global popularity. I've made a genuine effort to follow and learn about the game, but I just can't get into it.

Very nice, stay away, soccer is the most overrated sport in human history, midgets just jogging/walking around and passing & flopping entire game..... occasional goal or two, which most often happened by luck.... and this comes from a Euro.

[moaz]

Soccer.........

That big blue area north of the Us may also join green in the future (but it ill take at least another generation):

There are around 750k registered soccer players in Canada and around 500k hokey players

[fragokota]

Very nice, stay away, soccer is the most overrated sport in human history, midgets just jogging/walking around and passing & flopping entire game..... occasional goal or two, which most often happened by luck.... and this comes from a Euro.

Jesus, and to think you have had guys like Boban, Prosinecki and Suker...

[Megabox!]

Of course he's the most popular basketball player. Dude is a diva that shows up to big events, even goes to other team's games and makes stupid quotes in the media. Dude was slobbering on Odell Beckham and wanted to have dinner with him because he knew it was going to be written about by everyone after he made the catch. Wouldn't be surprised if he volunteered to be in Johnny Football's entourage during the off-season because it will keep him in the limelight. He is the Kim Kardashian of athletes. He has more talent than her though, because her sex tape was shit

[Nash]

Very nice, stay away, soccer is the most overrated sport in human history, midgets just jogging/walking around and passing & flopping entire game..... occasional goal or two, which most often happened by luck.... and this comes from a Euro.

as if they don't flop in basketball.
Midgets? It's regular sized people.

[riseagainst]

Very nice, stay away, soccer is the most overrated sport in human history, midgets just jogging/walking around and passing & flopping entire game..... occasional goal or two, which most often happened by luck.... and this comes from a Euro.

[kNIOKAS]

Sachin Tendulkar (Listeni/ˌsətʃɪn tɛnˈduːlkər/; born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar

[Psileas]

That big blue area north of the Us may also join green in the future (but it ill take at least another generation):

There are around 750k registered soccer players in Canada and around 500k hokey players

What criteria were taken into account to find the most popular sport? I've also seen basketball being called the most popular sport in China and badminton the most popular sport in Indonesia.

[Le Shaqtus]

Who the f*ck is Sachin Tendulkar