Think John Madden but for Soccer and there you have it. Extremely popular everywhere that isn't the US.
You can always come hang out in TeamSpeak. There's lots of people playing Skyrim, LoL, BF3 and other games that you can find some common interests with. You can maybe even convince someone to play TF2.IP is ts.freefrag.com
That doesn't sound like much fun. You don't even get to play a game of football? Although, it is quite popular, so it mist be more fun than it sounds.
Also, BF3. That's what I've been playing when I've gotten the chance to play video games lately.
I really miss the community on the doublecross server, that was a fun place.