Soccer

Soccer is quite a popular sport played and watched in Springfield.

History
Bart sat alone in the rain for hours after Homer failed to pick him up from soccer practice.

The Simpson family went to watch a match in Springfield between Mexico and Portugal.

One of the trailers the family had to sit through waiting for Shenani-Goats to start was for a family movie about a mummy who is brought back from the dead to play for a boy named Justin's soccer team, teaching him to believe in himself in the process.

Homer was once the referee for Lisa's matches. Lisa watched a DVD of a World Cup game involving Brazil. The game got extremely violent and it was said that a statue of the Virgin Mary came to life and beat the holy snot out of the players. is a famous Soccer player who Homer has met.

Lisa later gave a speech (for a contest at school) in which she praised Homer for his honesty and integrity as a soccer referee. A video of her speech went viral on the Internet, which led to FIFA officials recruiting Homer to referee at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. . He gave El Divo a yellow card during the final.