Why is soccer growing so rapidly in popularity in the U.S?

Large Hispanic/Latin@ population. Soccer is extraordinarily popular with these folks as it is. The larger these communities grow in the US, the more interest there is in soccer. Title 9. Yeah. The one that made women's sports equal to men's sports. read more

We soccer enthusiasts, in the 1980s and 1990s, used to predict that soccer’s popularity in the USA would climb significantly when the many thousands of players we recruited back then to play in youth soccer leagues, grew up and had children of their own to enroll in soccer programs and to take to professional matches. read more