Just watrching USA playing football against the Czech Republic in the FIFA
World Cup (soccer to those in the US, and incidentally USA is currently
losing 2-0), and it got me wondering how the team came about. We don't hear
about it being played in schools, only American football and baseball.
There are a lot of soccer teams here in the local schools (northern suburbs
of Chicago)- especially popular with the girls.
I really wish we could get a different set of commentators for the World
Cup - it just isn't the same listening to American commentators for soccer.
And they don't play
Jean Soccer is certainly played at least in parts of the US. A friend's
daughter was very keen when she was 14 or so. It may not have the popularity
of
American football or baseball but it does have some support which I think is
growing.
Coincidently, while I was at the garage collecting
Patricia wrote:
Coincidently, while I was at the garage collecting my car after its regular
service they had a television there with the Australian game on - australia
was
winning comprehensively against Japan. The australians were definitely
playing soccer (I asked the men present) and not
Soccer was introduced into the elementary school I was
teaching in 35 years ago (USA). It is popular in the
town where I now live. There are school soccer teams,
and out-of-school soccer leagues. The city has a park
devoted to soccer with six fields on it.
Baseball, in and out of school, is
