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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least in the case for boys, soccer is a 2-3rd tier sport in this country. And I say this as a parent of boys who play soccer. They like it but it’s not what they follow or talk about. Basketball and football are top of mind. It doesn’t mean soccer isn’t a great sport, and in the rest of the world it’s clearly #1. But the culture here is a long long way from putting soccer in the first tier.  But it could happen one day.  Basketball didn’t used to be so popular and baseball was.[/quote]

I think what this misses is that U.S. is a diverse country and there is a large soccer first population (tens of millions) of recent Latin American, African, and European immigrants.  There are also a good number of multi-generation Americans whose favorite sport is soccer - played competitively when younger, just grew to like the sport etc..  U.S. is not a uniform place where you can just say soccer is 3rd or 4th most popular sport so it is 3rd or 4th in every boy's mind.  
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