Yahoo story: Why the world's game is a white game in the U.S.

[Anonymous]

how many public futsal / small-sided soccer courts does Rio de Janiero have? who knows, probably in the hundreds, if not at least 1,000.

How many does DC have? ZERO. Blame the rich white people.

[Anonymous]

and many of those are in the Favelas and poverty-stricken areas where the government doesn't do any city planning.

[Anonymous]

now, if you want to play basketball in Brazil, you'd better go to the rich area and hire a basketball trainer who is a specialist and can teach you how to dribble correctly and how to shoot.

[Anonymous]

by the way, the guy who runs Open Goal Project writes these public opinion pieces all the time in order to raise awareness and get more public funding for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:how many public futsal / small-sided soccer courts does Rio de Janiero have? who knows, probably in the hundreds, if not at least 1,000.

How many does DC have? ZERO. Blame the rich white people.

There’s a public futsal mini pitch in Petworth

https://www.petworthnews.org/blog/futsal-opening

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:how many public futsal / small-sided soccer courts does Rio de Janiero have? who knows, probably in the hundreds, if not at least 1,000.

How many does DC have? ZERO. Blame the rich white people.

Blame them for what, like exactly? What is it that they have failed to do that apparently all the rich people in Brazil did? (Oh wait. You don’t need people to build you courts to play in the streets. Hmmmmm.)

I don’t think rich people of any color do enough with respect to tax contributions. But I don’t think that accounts for the lack of small sided soccer courts in DC. Maybe just the lack of popularity of the game? Probably a chicken-egg problem. But hey, blaming rich people will make you feel better even though it doesn’t do ONE THING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how many public futsal / small-sided soccer courts does Rio de Janiero have? who knows, probably in the hundreds, if not at least 1,000.

How many does DC have? ZERO. Blame the rich white people.

Blame them for what, like exactly? What is it that they have failed to do that apparently all the rich people in Brazil did? (Oh wait. You don’t need people to build you courts to play in the streets. Hmmmmm.)

I don’t think rich people of any color do enough with respect to tax contributions. But I don’t think that accounts for the lack of small sided soccer courts in DC. Maybe just the lack of popularity of the game? Probably a chicken-egg problem. But hey, blaming rich people will make you feel better even though it doesn’t do ONE THING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

And certainly just screaming at rich people about how they are not doing enough for your pet project has always persuaded them to come around to your perspective, I am sure. Solve the problem. This is America. Don’t expect somebody else to pick up your tab.

[Anonymous]

put it this way - futsal courts are just as common in brazil as basketball courts are here in the US.

So basically the author is complaining that soccer is not as popular as basketball and therefore there is a lack of facilities, especially in inner cities.

He's right, but that's just the reality

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:put it this way - futsal courts are just as common in brazil as basketball courts are here in the US.

So basically the author is complaining that soccer is not as popular as basketball and therefore there is a lack of facilities, especially in inner cities.

He's right, but that's just the reality

Correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if you just want to play, why would a kid care if they play "travel" or not? If soccer isn't doing it for you, try basketball.

Shouldn't be hard in DC, just go to ANY local basketball court and ask for someone to show you how to shoot. not that hard.

Yeah - that's how I learned to shoot. I've heard in more rural locations they start you off with deer first - but the big city is more hardcore.

[Anonymous]

In my experience, Hispanics and whites have been well represented on the teams my son has played on and in those clubs. It's the African Americans that have been grossly misrepresented. Not sure why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my experience, Hispanics and whites have been well represented on the teams my son has played on and in those clubs. It's the African Americans that have been grossly misrepresented. Not sure why?

My sons’ teams have had a lot of Black players. We also have had a lot of Black coaches and trainers, which I think probably helps with the diversity factor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:US is mainly white. Did you know polo in China is dominated by Chinese people, and it can be further separated by economics and weather.

The US is 1/2 white if that's what you mean by mostly.[/quote

Actually, it's over 60%.

[Anonymous]

There are no public cricket grounds in DC! In order to play cricket you've got to pay thousands of dollars to reserve Fields! there are not even any youth cricket teams or cricket leagues around the area. I'm going to have to pay an expensive fee to have my kid learn the game from an expert who knows how to teach it.

Oh the travesty

[Anonymous]

There are plenty of theories about why youth soccer is what it is in US, but it all boils down to soccer is not a mainstream sport in America. Kids watch, talk about, and casually play other sports. Their parents did the same. It’s what they know. Nothing wrong with it, it’s just the culture. Sure, there are small pockets of communities with large Latino populations where there is a soccer culture because that’s what they grew up with. Soccer is not mainstream just like lacrosse, swimming, volleyball, hockey.