in the world. There was not ONE single baseball player on the list! Not one American football player in the top 20.

Renown soccer hater Frank DeFord wrote that one reason soccer wouldn't succeed in the USA was because the U.S didn't import culture, it exported it. His xenophobic opinion is of course disproven by the ESPN survey and the growth of soccer, which DeFord would disingenuously deny. Well Frank DeFord died last year. Soccer is still going strong.