Why is soccer advancing so fast?

Not sure what you mean. Soccer has been the most popular sport in the world for decades.

Since the first uniform rules for football ("soccer") were established in 1846, this sport has become the No.1 sport in the world over a few decades.

FIFA (Fédéracion Internationale de Football Association ['International Association Football Federation']) was founded in 1904.

Maybe he means in the United States where it has never caught on very well. I still don't get it as a spectator sport, but I would say it's probably the best participation sport.

I don't get American Football at all.

It has to be the most boring experience ever.

I'd sooner watch paint dry.

Nobody who saw Robbie Savage being punched in the face by the referee could ever say that.

It's my favourite footballing moment, better than 1966.

The most boring is baseball, worse than American football.

Cricket is pretty dire too.

Commercials have absolutely ruined base ball.

I just googled the longest baseball game, it lasted 8 hours and 25 minutes.

Test matches last 5 days.

"Commercials have absolutely ruined baseball."

Or has baseball ruined commercials?

Sports are broadcast on free commercial television for one reason: profit. Profit depends on the insertion of commercials at a proper and regular time when the viewer is in an emotional state.

Professional football is the only team sport that survives on commercial television, and this is because of the ability to add commercials at the proper time. With professional football there are many moments when the viewers are in an emotional state, touchdowns, field goals, contested replays, injuries, and quarter and halftime breaks.

It's important that the viewer be in an emotional state when they break for commercial because a person in an emotional or hypnotic state is open to suggestion.

It's no accident that Budweiser and Miller are the two best selling beers in America. It's not because they're better but because they're on football games.

In basketball and hockey, the action is constant with no place to insert commercials. In baseball the commercials are placed after each half inning, and usually there is a lack of action and, therefore, a lack of emotion in the viewer.