USMNT lol!

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Anonymous wrote:"The most popular youth sport in America is soccer, with approximately 3 million registered players nationwide. Basketball and baseball are also highly popular, with roughly 2.6 million and 2.5 million participants, respectively"

soccer is the most popular youth activity that involves movementin America. biking in the neighborhood might be second.

most popular youth sport is basketball, no doubt.

Okay
We'll ignore the over 3 million officially registered kids playing soccer and just go with how you feel 😀

Is tennis a sport or activity? Need to let Wimbledon know haha

Sorry to hurt your feelings. Soccer really is a great activity for kids and youth, hence the 3 or however many millions registered (paid) to play.

How are feelings involved?

Some are saying we can't be a top level soccer country because it's not popular.
The numbers say its very popular and millions of kids are participating.

So obviously the numbers aren't the issue

DP - Numbers are very much the issue when it matters. Just because a kid plays soccer when they're too young to play basketball/football doesn't mean we are nation of soccer lovers. The prior poster did a disservice by saying "activity that involves movement" but, low level young rec is essentially that for most participants. When it gets more serious at 11v11 so many of those kids have quit soccer for the actual popular sports in the US.

Show me the numbers to prove kids get to U13 (11 v 11) then quit soccer to play Travel baseball, football, basketball, hockey

Some do that, but most just quit all sports because they were just forced to do it by their parents when they were too young to have a choice. Many of those are included in those youth participation numbers.

Just a random search, but I've seen this brought up a lot in other places. https://projectplay.org/state-of-play-2020/ages-13-17 (Baseball 2x screwed for the same reasons of kids being forced to play by parents)

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Anonymous wrote:"The most popular youth sport in America is soccer, with approximately 3 million registered players nationwide. Basketball and baseball are also highly popular, with roughly 2.6 million and 2.5 million participants, respectively"

soccer is the most popular youth activity that involves movementin America. biking in the neighborhood might be second.

most popular youth sport is basketball, no doubt.

Okay
We'll ignore the over 3 million officially registered kids playing soccer and just go with how you feel 😀

Is tennis a sport or activity? Need to let Wimbledon know haha

Sorry to hurt your feelings. Soccer really is a great activity for kids and youth, hence the 3 or however many millions registered (paid) to play.

How are feelings involved?

Some are saying we can't be a top level soccer country because it's not popular.
The numbers say its very popular and millions of kids are participating.

So obviously the numbers aren't the issue

DP - Numbers are very much the issue when it matters. Just because a kid plays soccer when they're too young to play basketball/football doesn't mean we are nation of soccer lovers. The prior poster did a disservice by saying "activity that involves movement" but, low level young rec is essentially that for most participants. When it gets more serious at 11v11 so many of those kids have quit soccer for the actual popular sports in the US.

Show me the numbers to prove kids get to U13 (11 v 11) then quit soccer to play Travel baseball, football, basketball, hockey

Some do that, but most just quit all sports because they were just forced to do it by their parents when they were too young to have a choice. Many of those are included in those youth participation numbers.

and kids in Africa, Europe, South America, Asia etc at 5, 6, 7 are dictating to their parents which activities they wish to do?