Well I must admit soccer is more of a lower class type of sport compared to basketball. The environment around less fortunate kids is more suitable to play it. Maybe it's about the sub-culture, maybe about the government's politics about motivating the young ones. But even though I've seen poor kids play ball in US on crappy courts, I can say for many countries it is considered that way. I don't wanna sound like a dick but even famous soccer players said that before. It's one hell of a sport for the ones who are in love with it though. It's pretty intense, this love. You must have heard the hooliganism issue in soccer-centered countries. It shapes the sports culture of those societies. The chanting for one thing, crowd groups compose songs, marches, poems for their teams. They put their entire lives in it. They care more about the supporting part than the result and the game itself. So if a sports club of a soccer team parts in the basketball league for example, they go their games and chant the same way, maybe fight the same way. NBA crowd's "Offense! Defence!" cheering sounds lame to ears at first, but US crowd is more into the game, more perceptive about it that way I guess. Sorry if I flied from one crap to another.