[bramps]

Thanks for proving my point so quickly. Club soccer is growing like a weed here. I mentored a boy who plays on a club championship team in Maine(lots of real estate) and they are having a hard time finding fields to practice on because of the demand). There are entire soccer complexes that have sprung up out of nowhere and they are filled in the Northeast from March til November.

[dfwgator]

I would be willing to bet, that today the most popular sports figure boys have a poster of in their bedroom is Lionel Messi.

[lacrew]

There is a difference between growth in people playing it, and people watching the World Cup en mass.

For a variety of reasons, its not a popular spectator sport in this country.