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Originally Posted by Farzo
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1 Cristiano Ronaldo Football Portugal Portugal $88 million $56 million $32 million
2 Lionel Messi Football Argentina Argentina $81.4 million $53.4 million $28 million
3 LeBron James Basketball United States United States $77.2 million $23.2 million $54 million
and u were saying?
sorry no 1 in the world plays basketball or baseball srsly other then the usa
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That is irrelevant to the argument. It doesn't matter what happens outside the US. The only argument that would support your side would be if there were American players making more in soccer than other sports.
You can't expect a society to generate all star players in sports their culture thinks is irrelevant just because their citizens can choose to leave their country, culture and family to make more money across the world. It isn't realistic or relevant.
First off, if America were fans of soccer and that is where the money in the USA went towards then we would have teams in premier leagues and Cristiano Ronaldo would be playing for a US team instead of Madrid. Citizens being fans of a sport dictate what sports get the money. In the US there is no interest in soccer so players do not make as much money.
Two, the US would generate more soccer athletes since soccer would actually be a focus instead of football/basketball/golf/baseball and you would have all stars that put current soccer athletes to shame coming out of the US.
The fact that US dominates in its top 2-3 sports and there is no way for other countries to compete isn't by accident. There isn't some secret formula for soccer that wouldn't allow the US to figure out how to create athletes for success in that sport.