How many soccer players (both amateur and professional) are there
worldwide broken down by country?

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Clarification of Question by clivegorman-ga on 15 Aug 2005 20:25 PDT

Instead, if there's someone who can just give a breakdown of the same
statistics for North America, England, France, Italy, Germany and
Spain, I'd be interested to hear from them.

Are you interested in all soccer players from child to adult?
Professional and amateur? As an example in the U.S. there are several
national childrens leagues such as AYSO that are very popular and very
large. Better players begin to locate club teams as young as U-10. All
50 states have associations that regulate soccer ranging from club to
high school. The ODP (Olympic Development Program) fields boys and
girls teams at a regional and state level for the best players
starting at about U-10 through high school. College and university
teams from Div. 1A to Div. III are common. The MLS is the top American
pro league, but numerous semi-pro leagues exist, as well as over-30
and over-40 recreational adult leagues. The U.S. Soccer Federation
probably has a good number:

http://www.ussoccer.com

That is just a fraction of what you want.  There are more soccer
players in Germany than the whole Danish population  - which makes it
embarassing when the Danes win the European championship:  6.2 million
members in 26,010 clubs:

http://www.dfb.de/dfb-info/eigenprofil/index.html

Yep, I would like to know the figures based on amateur to
professional, child to adult.

HI, I kind of think the rest of the world is not so organized as the
Germans are on this subject.  Besides, researchers are shy of
questions about "all" of anything.
The world soccer federation, FIFA, lists 205 member associations:

http://www.fifa.com/en/organisation/na/index.html  

You can click on each of them, and, of course, you can ask FIFA if it
has a number, but I doubt if it would be a satisfactory answer.