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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do any of you have kids in school? I do. Ask them the most popular sports or what they talk about with friends.  It’s soccer at my DS’s school.  American football and lacrosse still get the alumni and administrators’ attention.  But the teen boys lean toward soccer in a way I never would have guessed until I asked why talks so much soccer.

So maybe, just maybe, the old folks on this chat don’t know as much as we think about what wil make soccer “better”.  I have my opinions, but the sport is soaring like never before in the U.S. and worldwide.[/quote]
Where do your kids go to school? Because that is absolutely NOT the case where we live in Virginia. My kids mostly play basketball around the neighborhood and they all watch and follow NFL. I see lots of football jerseys at the bus stop in the Fall.[/quote]

We are in NW DC and I would the interest is 40% soccer, 30% basketball and 30% football.

Baseball should be worried.  They are not even a rounding error.  My kid gets the daily scores from Alexa but that’s it.[/quote]

Bethesda/Rockville here. Ratios probably close to 45 soccer/20 basketball /33 football/2 hockey. Also think baseball is in trouble. Soccer is top. Basketball and football matter, but not quite as much.  Top is the Premier League, followed by La Liga, Serie-A, then Bundesliga. I barely hear a word about MLS.[/quote]
You people live in a soccer bubble. I guess that’s to be expected if you are on this message board. No way kids are watching more soccer than football. If that were the case you would walk into Dicks and see soccer jerseys not football. Friday night high school football games wouldn’t be filled with kids and high school soccer games would have spectators. There would be pep rallies before soccer games not football. Kids would have fantasy soccer leagues not football. There would be more soccer goals in driveways than basketball hoops. [/quote]

Dick's has a whole large section dedicated to soccer jerseys

I don't see kids playing football all around the dmv on Saturday and Sundays at every available field from morning till night. It's soccer. 
If more kids are wearing Eagles, Cowboys and Commanders jerseys than soccer jerseys in Elementary and Middle School I'd be surprised [/quote]

To a PP, ok, I’ll agree. I must live in a soccer bubble.

But the fact that the giant, wealthy USA even has soccer bubbles should matter and should be enough to easily overcome tiny Costa Rica, and not even be a question about too-cold-most-of-the-year  hockey-crazed Canada.

There’s no question at all that many more kids in my area wear soccer jerseys than football or basketball or baseball probably combined. And yes, all races here.  It also seems that soccer tryouts are much more competitive than football, even with some club players ineligible.

The question is, why can’t US soccer legitimately take advantage of the numbers we have (dollars and people) and be clearly and consistently better than Costa Rica (5M), Panama (4M), Canada (45M), and frankly Mexico too.

This, without talking about the many who do it better with far fewer players like Uruguay (4M), Croatia (4M), Switzerland (9M), Portugal (10M).

Surely US soccer with its money and access could learn development from someone.  It’s wild to think that, way fewer than 0.01% of soccer playing US citizen boys play in another country as kids. Yet, a solid chunk of our national team pool always comes from that tiny number of overseas kids (see Robinson, Dest, Musa, Balogun, Tillman this time around). When half of our starters may once again be men who played as boys outside the States, US soccer’s youth development has not done its job. Pre-MLSNext, sure, but does anyone believe they’ve figured out yet.[/quote]

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