[Professor S]

Again, I don't buy the "North Americans don't like strategy" argument. The two most popular sports in NA are Football and Baseball, and they are both FAR more strategic than soccer, IMO. And its not as if North Americans don't understand soccer. Its the biggest youth sport in America. If anything, soccer simply isn't strategic or suspenseful enough to break through as a popular spectator sport.

Let's also not discount the money factor. It's very difficult to broadcast a sport when the stations can't easily insert commercial breaks. They don't want soccer to be a popular spectator sport.