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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Facilities. Ok, sorry for this long link:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/German+International+School+Washington+D.C./@39.0114018,-77.1785374,117m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x1d846fb0e516d38e!8m2!3d39.010847!4d-77.17757

This is the German School located in Potomac, MD. I have been a substitute teacher there a couple of times. They actually have a small soccer field that is part of the campus, and every single day, all the boys at the school play soccer for their entire recess.

Many of them also play on local travel teams, and then a lot of them just play for fun. They take it very seriously, even just playing at lunch time. You're talking a large percentage of the boys in every grade, not just a few kids. They are following the Bundesliga and wearing jerseys to school all the time, and it's serious to them.

Why doesn't every elementary school in the DC Metro area have a turf soccer pitch out back? Well, it's not part of the culture enough to be deemed important enough. Yet, we have basketball courts at EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL, EVERYWHERE.

In Europe, they do have these small soccer "courts" that are the same size as a basketball court, but with goals on either end, so you have kids playing 4v4, 5v5, 6v6, whatever all of the time when they aren't in school. 11 year old kids aren't going to run around a full sized soccer field chasing a ball, but they will play on a smaller sized field.

In Europe, you can probably walk a mile or less to get to some public area where people gather to play soccer. You can do the same here to find a pickup basketball game, but for soccer you have to drive somewhere, which makes it less accessible for the masses.[/quote]

In the suburbs of the DMV, you have to drive somewhere to do anything,  but there are far more kids playing pickup soccer than basketball (not a lot of either,  TBF, neither can compete with SC and video games).  My kids go to public schools and soccer has always been the most popular sport at recess. [/quote]

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