If you truly liked soccer you would call it
football.
Now, seriously, do you watch the real deal (UEFA Champions League, World Cup, European C'ships, English, Spanish, Italian leagues) or just MLS?
If not, you're missing out on some great matches. Not that Americans don't know how to play it (you did reach the quarter finals of WC2002), it's just not the same.
I'm just curious, because there are few Americans who like soccer, they have the strange idea that it's a girl game.