Football (soccer) is the most popular sport by a mile for ages, there are many new international teams on the scene taking it seriously like Madagascar and Cyprus go example. Some videos if you want to follow their stories, Madagascar - Now that is what you call the "16th man". Cyprus - Football (soccer) is the most popular sport by a mile for ages, there are many new international teams on the scene taking it seriously like Madagascar and Cyprus go example. Some videos if you want to follow their stories, Madagascar -

Impossible to say. How do you measure the "growth" of any sport on a worldwide basis and relative to any other sport? But if I had to guess I would think that cricket's growing popularity on the Indian subcontinent (with a combined population of something like 1.5 billion) would make it a better candidate.

Yeah, behind the summer Olympics and FIFA world cup, the RWC is the third most watched international sporting competition