[Rummyfan]

Attendance at soccer stadia, especially women’s and particularly outside U.S. cities with large foreign-born populations, is abysmal.

So consider me skeptical that Team USA’s two ties this month can augment the sport’s popularity. Four years ago, this group didn’t even qualify for the World Cup after embarrassingly losing to an island nation with a population smaller than Nebraska’s.

Every World Cup that the US qualifies for, we hear this is it, this will be the breakout for soccer in the US. Then the game promptly returns to dormancy.

I do wish we would win the World Cup once, because the reaction from the majority of Americans would be 'Huh? What?'.

[No Party Affiliation]

On the world stage winning the World Cup is bigger than the Super Bowl but most Americans would not appreciate that.