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To: BeadCounter

USA avenged the two losses to Ghana in the last two World Cups, I hope come the 3rd game, we defeat the Germans too as they defeated us in 2002.


60 posted on 06/22/2014 8:00:13 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: BeadCounter
The depression came but soccer was big in the USA in the 1920s.

The Secret History of American Soccer

In the 1920s, soccer was on the cusp of becoming a major sport in the United States. Then it all crashed and burned.

In the 1920s, soccer was big in America. Not big in the way that baseball was big (this was the era of Ruth and Gehrig) or college football was big (these were the days when Ivy League rivalries played out as violent eruptions in the mud), but at its height, the top American soccer league had tens of thousands of fans, featured some of the world's best players, and looked set to challenge the fledgling NFL in the competition to supply the nation with a post-October pastime. ------------------------------

SELECT WINNERS, USA OPEN CUP

1914 May 16 Brooklyn Field Club

1915 May 1 Bethlehem Steel

1916 May 6 Bethlehem Steel

1917 May 5 Fall River Rovers

1918 May 4 Bethlehem Steel

1919 Apr 19 Bethlehem Steel

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1928 Apr 8 New York Nationals

1929 Mar 31 New York Hakoah (Jewish club)

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1935 Apr 28 St. Louis Central Breweries

1936 Apr 26 Philadelphia German-American

1938 Apr 17 Chicago Sparta

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1939 Apr 30 Brooklyn St. Mary's Celtic

So actually, as opposed to what people say, it's been around forever.

66 posted on 06/22/2014 8:53:41 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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