system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Is there a historical reason why the majority of Americans don't care about soccer even though it's wildly popular in the rest of the world? When and why did that divide happen?
gpt
A couple of reasons for this:

- Firstly, soccer had bad timing. Soccer was becoming popular in Europe as baseball was becoming popular in the US. There was initially only room for one new major sport every now and then. Imagine, there's this new sport that everyone is talking about that is made in America called baseball, oh and there's something called soccer as well. Which to play first? Basically, other sports got the limelight first.

- Secondly, national identity. It's midway through the 1800s not even a hundred years since the war of Independence. The British have come up with a competitive game. It's not hard to understand why people felt uneasy about adopting a British idea.