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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ ha!  Ok, I look forward to watching your son in the nfl or nba...riiight.

Very few kids play any sport past high school.  Soccer isn’t what it was when you were a child.  But, glad there are players that don’t give a shit out there on the pitch.  Explains why they can’t stick with it.  The sport has a way of weeding out.[/quote]

You are really too emotionally invested in this as evident from all of your profanity.

It is a kids sport and one that is not really important in this country beyond the youth level, and certainly not once you get out of high school and college.

There is very little market for pro soccer in this country.

Travel soccer starts too young and youth soccer starts too young (preschool teams are everywhere).

Soccer has branded itself as a little kids sport in this country.[/quote]

That may change, my friend.  'Merica isn't going to look the same in the future.

Among the minority populations, the greatest growth is projected for multiracial populations, Asians and [b]Hispanics with 2018–2060 growth rates of 175, 93, and 85 percent, respectively[/b].

The market for soccer will continue to grow as well....and, hopefully, by then we will get our sh*t worked out.[/quote]

It is the sport the majority of American youth are playing.  That develops into love for the sport that they later pass down to their children.  That is how the sport grows.  And since [b]both[/b] mothers and fathers play it (unlike baseball and American football), you have the moms that are often the ones that are with the kids more often passing a ball to them instead of the old American model of dad playing catch with their sons.  My kids play soccer because since I work from home I was the one with them after work and I can't stand baseball, never played American football or basketball---so we spent countless hours playing 'monkey in the middle' and me teaching them how to get the ball where they wanted to go by foot placement, etc.  I grew up playing from the time I could walk and watching it at home with my dad and brothers.  [/quote]

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