Well, you're wrong about soccer being boring. I don't agree with that at all. You know, you can't be categorical because as many people as there are opinions. Everyone has their own hobbies and interests.
But thanks for the reply anyway.)
Sell me on it then. I have had the misfortune of suffering it during PE (whether that is the equivalent of being forced to read Shakespeare and thus gaining an enduring dislike could stand to be debated. That was at least until I got banned as one particular match saw several of the school's team taken out by me, recall the part about spikes on shoes, and they lost the league they were set to do very well in and thus we have a favourite school memory), had to sit around for local stuff, had it on in pubs when I have been there (fortunately the space around the corner from the TV was nice and free) and had friends enjoy it enough to want to watch it while otherwise hanging out or even play computer games based on it (management, simulation, arcadey... all of them at times) but I fortunately had books/games/internet there to distract me.
At no point have I ever looked on and thought wow such athleticism, can only imagine being able to run that fast/jump that high/lift that heavy thing/be that precise/anticipate those moves. The mathematics of gambling based on it is not bad but that applies to mathematics of anything to do with gambling for me where the source of randomness is almost incidental.
Sportsmanship (rich following my little story I know) seems to be nowhere to be seen -- between rolling around on the floor after one of the opposing team farts in their general direction (and 3/4 second lag to make sure the referee was looking that way at the time), and then massively disrespecting said referees when a call does not go their way.
Observed the people that do enjoy it, indeed a fascinating ride on a train once if I was doing the anthropologist bit when people all dressed up in costumes were discussing the match they had been to. The investment in outcomes for "their team" in various scenarios is something I have never felt the slightest pang of, be it generally, for a local team or country in international efforts, and a lack of injuries worth seeing does not help.
What should I be looking at for it to captivate me? Or would I have had to sit with my dad since before I can remember watching it similar to how people learn religion?
Football is almost uniquely boring in this as well. Only really baseball that comes close to things in anything else I have seen and I have had the misfortune of sitting around for any number of sports on TV and real life. You will never catch me watching any, certainly not paying for it, but many of those at least get some idea of why people enjoy it.