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There's trouble right off the bat, in that "popular" is left undefined. Speaking strictly from the U.S. perspective, the one site that it links to, a Gallup poll, doesn't show anything about this matter. For another, I would be shocked if soccer were anywhere near the popularity level of NASCAR,
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