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American Soccer – there’s nothing quite like it in the
rest of the world. Namely, because most of the rest of the world
(except, perhaps, Canada) call the sport “football.”
Of course, we Americans could not possibly call soccer football…
we already have our own sort of football.
Our American football hardly resembles English football (American
soccer) in the least bit. The balls aren’t even the same shape!
American football is pretty much unique to America, similar only
to that other rough (but un-padded) sport of rugby.
American soccer, though, is starting to become nearly as popular
as American football. It is not quite on the same scale, yet, but
it is working on it. Although the professional Major League Soccer
does not have as many teams nor as many spectators as the professional
National Football League, it is a new league and is already gaining
in popularity.
It makes sense that soccer should gain in popularity. Whereas at
football games, many of the spectators have never played, at soccer
games the stands are field with current, former, and future soccer
players and soccer moms.
The term “soccer moms” itself shows the popularity
of the game. There are no “football moms” carting their
kids to and from football practice. The term is “soccer mom”
because so many kids are out there playing soccer. It is a sport
that many Americans have played at some point in their lives. The
moms are out there playing, too. The same cannot necessarily be
said for football.
In fact, football is most definitely a male-dominated sports. Soccer
is played by both young girls and women. There are certainly no
women’s football teams in high school. Soccer stands to gain
great popularity because there is more than just half the nation
that can play it.
In fact, the US women’s soccer team has already gone out
there and won 2 out of 3 World Cups! Soccer is a sport that is popular
among all Americans, young and old, male and female.
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