In years past, before the illegal immigration invasion of the 1980’s (which hasn’t stopped), America largely ignored Soccer. Due to the general wealth of the USA, Americans enjoyed numerous other sports, all of which require a bit of money to play with equipment costs, uniforms, specialty grounds etc...
With the importing of 3rd worlders, all of which Soccer is the dominant sport of almost all other nations in the world, Soccer has gained massive inroads in America. This is regardless of whether the US Mens National Team is good or not, the fact is Soccer is continuously getting more popular here because we keep accepting more 3rd worlders into the country.
Every time you ‘soccer moms’ enter your kids into youth league soccer, you are helping transform the USA into another 3rd world dump. Congratulations.
Soccer is the top sport across Europe, which dominates the sport internationally. England, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc. are not third world dumps.
Soccer is by far the most popular and the richest sport on the planet.
You may need to amend parts of your post.
In years past, before the illegal immigration invasion of the 1980’s (which hasn’t stopped), America largely ignored Soccer. Due to the general wealth of the USA, Americans enjoyed numerous other sports, all of which require a bit of money to play with equipment costs, uniforms, specialty grounds etc...
American’s also enjoyed boxing and horse racing. Tastes change. Baseball has seen a massive drop is popularity and has been forced to import “third world” players to offset that.
I would rather see soccer expand than endure any more preening and pompous nonsense from over paid and under civilized professional football and basketball players.