World Series of Soccer??

[Tim Richardson]

It's actually the World Cup, as is the cricket competition. I guess what you meant was that each sport/pastime had a contest which claimed to be global by including the word "world" in its title, though I'm still trying to figure out how, exactly, this holds for car racing. Formula 1, maybe? And you could have thrown in rugby as well - both disciplines also have their own World Cups. I'm not complaining too vehemently here - just think the question was a bit fuzzy.

[AndySaunders]

Nope...both have had a World Series.

"The term World Series of Soccer was initially a series of senior international soccer matches held by USSF between 1991 and 1994.

In 2005, Major League Soccer re-introduced the name for a series of professional matches in the United States."

Also, an Australian named Kerry Packer ran a "rebellion" cricket league in late 1970s Australia known as "World Series Cricket".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series_Cricket

Question's not fuzzy in the slightest.

[melissa]

I'm chairing a national soccer boosters convention in (counting) 16 days. Yes, there WAS/IS a World Series of Soccer.

[Ken Jennings]

I do feel bad for our non-US readers in that I finally ran a question on international sport (football, cricket, auto racing, etc.) and yet the nature of the "World Series" gimmick meant that it was pretty much all about no-prestige US bastardizations of world sport. Oh well.