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I can’t believe how popular it’s getting here in America. The only explanations I can come up with are A) it’s rather cheap to participate...shoes, shorts, shirt, maybe pads, and B) part of the pussification of America...not as dangerous as football or hockey.
I would say, because you don’t need to be 300 pounds body weight to make it in soccer and the violating body attacks, I think Soccer Moms prefer Soccer over American Football for security of their children, see my previous post!!!
Its relatively cheap, without much equipment.
Moms are terrified that their kids might get hurt in sports, and soccer seems like the safest choice.
Its relatively easy to find parents to coach...at the little league level, there is absolutely no strategy, so the coach just makes sure the refreshments are in order.
Even a kid with poor athletic abilities will not stand out as too bad, in a soccer game (compared to being at bat in baseball, for example).
I grew up playing ‘backyard soccer’...from my earliest memory, we played it (this was the 1970s). Later in life I discovered that our neighbor helped popularize soccer in the southeast (even has a Wikipedia entry). His son played professionally in an indoor league. My brother actually got a soccer scholarship to college. So I’m very acquainted with the sport.
But there’s not much more boring on this planet than watching a soccer game - I wholeheartedly agree with that. And, I quit playing as I got older, when you had to have a certain ‘douche factor’ to be a soccer player - wearing nylon shorty shorts to school, playing hacky sack all the time, etc.
But I did play indoor soccer almost daily throughout high school. Its a lot faster and more exciting. Really just a poor man’s version of hockey. I still wouldn’t watch that, but it was fun to play.