frigidweirdo
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That doesn't mean the US plays soccer. It means it's playing in the US.
It means more Americans are going to pro soccer games than are going to NBA or NHL games.
Yes, but it still doesn't mean the US plays soccer.
Go to US schools, how much is soccer played? Go to the parks, do you see soccer being played?
Among the hispanics maybe, beyond that, not so much.
You should get out more. Most schools have soccer teams. The US plays soccer and the US fans love going to the games.
But is your point that white people don't play?
Oh, accusations of racism now.
I made no accusations at all. I asked a simple question.
And the question did not come out of the blue. You insist that Americans don't play soccer. And when you try to emphasize that, you make the comment that we don't see people playing soccer in parks ect. And then "Among hispanics maybe, beyond that, not so much". So you specified that is is hispanics (not Americans) who play soccer. I asked a question for clarification.
Now, as for who plays, let me help you out with some info. here is a link to a graph that shows the number of people in the US who played soccer in the last 12 months. And this tidbit in the caption, "In spring 2017, the number of people who played soccer within the last 12 months amounted to 15.86 million in the United States".
Here is a link to graphs showing that over 800k high school students played high school soccer. U.S. girls/boys high school soccer participation 2009-2017 | Statistic
Soccer is, on almost any poll, the 4th or 5th most popular sport in the US. To say Americans don't play soccer is simply inaccurate.
There's a difference between people who have played soccer in the last 12 months and a nation that plays soccer.
Shit, if I eat ice cream once a year, does this make me an ice cream eater?
In Europe kids don't have surveys done of who has played soccer in the last 12 months. All kids play soccer. Some kids will play it five times a weeks. It's the national sport, kids go out and play it in the park after school, play it in the street when it's getting dark. They'll dream of being a professional soccer player.
In the US it's kind of a sport for kids who don't want to get their heads bashed in or who aren't six foot tall by the time they're five years old.
Your statistic of the number who play soccer is all well and good. Until you compare it with the number of students.
There were 16.3 million high school students in the US in 2010.
Number of High School Students in America - A Knowledge Archive
You've got 800,000 playing soccer. That's less than one in twenty playing soccer.
In the UK that'd be about one in one for boys. Girls I don't know.
A nation does play soccer when only 1 in 20 are participating in soccer at any level of participation. If 1 in 20 participated, how many actually played on a team? 1 in 40? Or is it you get on a team or you don't play at all?
No idea.
But still, the US doesn't play soccer.
Some people in the US play soccer, and some people are actually very good. That's not what's being spoken about here.
Brazil plays soccer. Almost every boy wants to be a professional, rich or poor. They play day in, day out. They play at school, they play after school, maybe before school.
With a population of 320 million, if the US played soccer, they'd be at the world cup without a fail.
The US national team which played against France on the 9th of June had 4 players playing in the US MLS. Only four out of 20. Because the US league just isn't at the standard.
One of the player's father's is President of Liberia.
I've never heard of any of the others. Saying that I don't really follow soccer much any more.