In my township we went from 6 teams of kids 6-8 years old to now only having enough for 2 and they have to travel to other towns for teams to play. Demographic change you say , not likely since we grew in population. My Son and his friends think soccer in their words..”Is for girls and wimps”. Can’t say I disagree, was always a sport on an amateur level which was a haven for spastic sailboat shirt kids with names likes Brenden and Chase.
I don’t think soccer’s a bad game per se. I will say, however, of all the sports I do play as an adult, and I play a lot of different sports, it is the one sport where the players WHINE the most about contact of any sort and definately has the highest proportion of openly homosexual players.
My kids will not be playing soccer - where we live it’s a 5-6 day a week commitment, and some games are played on Sunday Mornings during church time.
We actually have seen a demographic change.
In South Philadelphia, I don't think I've ever seen Americans playing Soccer (it may happen, I just haven't ever seen it).
However, beginning in 2005 when we first started getting our mexicans, on Sundays, the parks would be filled with soccer games. Often, two games at the same time, 300 illegals jammed into the park watching and playing. The drunkenness, public urination, and children behaving like savages made the parks a place unfit for civilized children.
To make matters worse, regularly scheduled children's softball and football league games were unable to play since their field was taken over.
The one upside of the economy crashing, is it seems that a lot of our illegals have picked up and gone home. Now, those soccer fields are filled with local kids playing T ball.