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I look for America’s interest in soccer to gradually expand over the coming years, as the generation of kids from the 1990s (remember the advent of “soccer moms”?) grow up, wussified and antagonistic to competitive, brutal American sports, like real football.

I look for America’s interest in soccer to gradually expand over the coming years, as the generation of kids from the 1990s (remember the advent of “soccer moms”?) grow up, wussified and antagonistic to competitive, brutal American sports, like real football.

Nah, I grew up in the '70s, when soccer was first mainstreamed as a school sport (I even tried it in 6th grade, the Latinos and Europeans take over immediately). Pele, the Babe Ruth of soccer, was coming to the New York Cosmos to lead them to the NASL championship! They filled Giants stadium! We are now an extra generation away, and soccer now is firmly ensconced as a sport for little kids, Latinos, and the occasional Canadian.

“I look for America’s interest in soccer to gradually expand over the coming years, as the generation of kids from the 1990s (remember the advent of “soccer moms”?) grow up, wussified and antagonistic to competitive, brutal American sports, like real football.”

The eldest of that generation of kids is now 24 years older and it hasn’t happened yet.

What I DO see is a bunch of liberal poseurs on MSNBC and CNN discussing the latest Arsenal vs. Liverpool match with borrowed terminology. I know enough about the game to see that they really don’t comprehend what they are talking about, but they need some kind of background noise when they are knocking back their Stoli-martinis, or whatever it is they are drinking now that Cigar Bars are no longer in vogue.

Another aside: If the INS ever needs to begin mass deportations all they need to do is drive around to the various soccer fields on a weekend. What I am noticing is a lot of Latino kids of all ages playing the game they came north with. And if that isn’t stopped, then maybe, Soccer/Football does become the national game.

REAL football?. I assume you mean that 4 hr sport that is a wimps version of its father, rugby.