Ok lets get something straight. It isn't "soccer" its football.
Only the Americans call it "soccer" and they only do that because they invented a sport predominantly played with there hands and called it football....
Now what arguing point do you have against football.
The World Cup averages 1.1 billion viewers per day for the almost month-long event.
Even the UEFA Euro Cup gains more views then the super bowl. The worldwide audience was 279 million in 2004.
If we are talking money won by the winner of the competition. Football again.
SOURCED FROM FORBES
Have any doubts that soccer is the world’s sport? Then look no further than the money.
In the third annual Forbes list of the ten richest sporting events in the world, soccer again reigns supreme. Four of the top five spots on the list are occupied by soccer tournaments. The richest sporting event in the world? The UEFA Champions League. This year’s title winner, Bayern Munich, lifted the 20-pound trophy and a cool $65 million to go along with it.
The Champions League pays out more than twice that of the most prestigious tournament in soccer—and the world—the FIFA World Cup. Spain, which won the most recent World Cup in 2010, received $31 million for the victory, good enough for number two on our list.
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