I don’t see increased interest in Soccer as a positive for the United States.
Nothing wrong with soccer. It is a good sport. However, there are many other competing team sports. So, professional soccer is competing with all them for fans, The NASL created a lot interest in the 70/80s when they recruited the top international players. I suppose they would have to do that again to “kick-start” professional soccer again in the US.
My kids don’t play soccer anymore but it’s a good sport. Unfortunately, the people who play it don’t necessarily want to pay to watch it. They’d rather play.
Soccer has had over 35 years to make it's appearance but has failed on the professional level. Football and baseball will forever take precedence over the sport of nil vs. nil after two full halfs.............
Youth soccer is being built primarily on a club rather than a school-based system, which is a big plus for the players. More subjectively, I find the culture of soccer here in the DC area to be attractive. Football and basketball have gone thug at the professional level, and the bad influence creeps down the chain. I don’t have a particularly broad field of vision, but I find youth soccer (again because it’s club based) to be dominated by parents (in contrast to school based sports), and standards of deportment are fairly high.
Is America becoming more pussified?
Well, the feminazis are very close to destroying the NFL, and the next “acceptable” sport to the new ager is soccer.
I will never understand how anyone can get all worked up over 90 minutes of an uncontrollable ball going from one team’s possession to the other’s and wind up with a 0-0 or 0-1 score. AFTER 90 MINUTES!
The only reason why so many people are playing soccer is so they don’t have to watch it.
Right along with the rest of the Europeanization of America.
No.
Soccer...indisputable proof that the rest of the world really IS that f#*%$d up.
I think hockey is growing. My son played hockey all through school, then juniors hockey in Minnesota. My 3 grandsons play and soon 1 granddaughter and another grandson will play. In fact my grandson, who’s 12, played against Ben Sasse’s daughter. Her team won. She’s a pretty good player.
Saw stats in WSJ a few months ago that in the US, youth soccer and football are both trending down in numbers participating.
The only two youth sports trending up US nationally are hockey and lacrosse, although going up from very small numbers.
No. Youth soccer is big, has been for a long time, and in that long time it really hasn’t translated into adult fandom.