The USA Women's World Cup victory will be the catalyst to really make soccer big in the U.S.

Made me chortle. 2/10

kind of like how 1999 did? not.

Bobby, I never thought I'd need to tell you this, but I would be a bad parent if I didn't. Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking.

Just like how lacrosse is the next big sport. I heard that in 1994.

Soccer already is big in the US. We have the best women's team in the world. The men's team, not so much.

Soccer futbol is doing just fine. Haven't you noticed all the dedicated stadiums being built for the MLS. And their attendance is increasing. The MNT just had over 40K at their gold cup warmup game in... wait for it..... Nashville?

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Soccer_attendance

All in all their are doing much better than T&F here.

MOR wrote:

The USA Women's World Cup victory will be the catalyst to really make soccer big in the U.S.

God I hope not....

Just like it did in '99?

Kind of like it did in '99

Hello? Already been said.

will never happen. The US just doesn't like international competition. We like football, baseball, NBA basketball, regarless of who win, there's 100% chance they are at least American (or represent an American city.)

The only time we like international sports is when we have a Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, or Edwin Moses i.e. someone we KNOW will dominate, otherwise we shun it.

I think we struggle with the idea that our huge rich country could lose to some 3rd world $hit hole of a place.

It will be fun for a while, but at the end of the day it's still just women's soccer. Bad athletes and a sucky sport.

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Soccer already is big in the US. We have the best women's team in the world. The men's team, not so much.

The men just beat #6 ranked Netherlands and #1 ranked Germany in ridiculous come from behind wins.

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

Come back and talk to us when the men's team advances to a World Cup final or produces an international player of note. No, Landon Donovan and Tim Howard don't count. The U.S. has generally maintained similar quality among its men's team and players since around 2002. Never won, or even approached winning, a major competition. Never produced a player that could legitimately be considered a star in World Cup play or amongst the better professional leagues (Premier League being the gold standard). MLS has made strides, but the quality of play is significantly inferior the top tier leagues. Soccer fans have been saying the U.S. is on the brink for 20+ years. U.S. kids have played organized soccer for 35+ years.

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Just like how lacrosse is the next big sport. I heard that in 1994.

Correct. Fastest growing sport in NCAA. Meanwhile, athletic department have been cutting swimming & diving, track & field, and wrestling programs each year.

Hahaha nice try but not really wrote:

Come back and talk to us when the men's team advances to a World Cup final or produces an international player of note. No, Landon Donovan and Tim Howard don't count. The U.S. has generally maintained similar quality among its men's team and players since around 2002. Never won, or even approached winning, a major competition. Never produced a player that could legitimately be considered a star in World Cup play or amongst the better professional leagues (Premier League being the gold standard). MLS has made strides, but the quality of play is significantly inferior the top tier leagues. Soccer fans have been saying the U.S. is on the brink for 20+ years. U.S. kids have played organized soccer for 35+ years.

Participation numbers for kids is great, but I'm going to guess that if you look at how and where most -- if not all -- of the members of the men's and women's national teams grew up, I'd venture to guess they mostly came from pretty well-off backgrounds. That or they came from modest means and a well-to-do club found them. I live in Illinois and more often than not the best soccer teams in the state come from well-off areas, especially on the girls side (more often than not it's the same for XC/track, too, although Cahokia is the outlier). The US would produce top players if the talent pool to pull from covered more of this country than just country club communities.

Hahaha nice try but not really wrote:

Come back and talk to us when the men's team advances to a World Cup final or produces an international player of note. No, Landon Donovan and Tim Howard don't count. The U.S. has generally maintained similar quality among its men's team and players since around 2002. Never won, or even approached winning, a major competition. Never produced a player that could legitimately be considered a star in World Cup play or amongst the better professional leagues (Premier League being the gold standard). MLS has made strides, but the quality of play is significantly inferior the top tier leagues. Soccer fans have been saying the U.S. is on the brink for 20+ years. U.S. kids have played organized soccer for 35+ years.

Why doesn't Tim count? And fine, Clint Dempsey.

With that logic Portugal is a hugely inferior country because of their lack to make semi's or final of major competition. Aside, they have produced a top 2 player in the world in CR7, who plays in a top league, yet they will never win a world cup with him, so again, that point is flawed.

Not saying MLS is on any kind of "brink", but Clint followed money here, He was linked to Liverpool at the time of his transfer. MLS is slowly expanding, just look at teams added to the league every year.

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Women's soccer is already pretty big in the US.

The US is obviously very successful and the youth programs are huge.

This is really tragic. It's all the fault of those moms who keep putting their kids in youth soccer leagues.

Moms, let your kids run around and play by themselves. You don't have to put them in an organized sport so you can supervise them.

Bad Wigins wrote:

This is really tragic. It's all the fault of those moms who keep putting their kids in youth soccer leagues.

Moms, let your kids run around and play by themselves. You don't have to put them in an organized sport so you can supervise them.

Do you ever make a troll post that is actually good? Seriously, I always just read these weird responses that don't really add anything to the real conversation or the troll conversation.