LOL

Every four years, when there is a World Cup, I am reminded, more than once, usually, of Jack Kemp's famous statement about "American Football" being the embodiment of Kapitalist American values, and soccer being the embodiment of the opposite Socialist European values.

The geography is correct - the rest is not.

In American Football, and for that matter in all the other professional leagues in America too, teams are not allowed to fail: the league is fixed and teams cannot be promoted and relegated for success and failure. In soccer, even many of the great powerhouses have been relegated to lower divisions for failure (and please don't talk about my fave clubs).
In America, city councils (ie, taxpayers) pay for the stadia and arenas; in soccer, clubs do.
In America, teams recruit by drafting already made talent from universities or lower leagues with emphasis on youth. In soccer, clubs recruit exclusively with their wallet, the process being the same for a 30yo who is a world star or an 11yo in a third world slum (and literally, they do recruit 11yo's in third world slums) who they train into professionalism.
In America, leagues share the revenue, so names like Dallas Cowboys or New York Yankees don't make a lot more than Smallville Nobodies, but otoh, Smallville Nobodies will never lose money as long as the league as a whole doesn't. In soccer, each club is to itself so Manchester United can make the GDP of a small nation and Leeds United be taken over by its creditors (and the English Premier actually has some revenue sharing schemes that the Spanish Star League and the Italian A-Series don't).
In America, salaries are regulated at a league-wide basis, with both minimum and maximum salaries, individual and collective. In soccer, the very idea would make people call the guys in white coats.

So yeah, Kemp really really had no idea which sport is more socialistic and which is more kapitalistic - because it's really the opposite: soccer is much, much more kapitalistic than any and all American sports.

And, yeah, this attitude applies in many other things.

Many Americans, and, annoyingly, too many Americans with access to being published, tend to think that more American = more kapitalistic and less American = more socialistic. And, moreover, that what they like and don't like also follow those lines.

Like Lemonade stands.