Soccer

Paper Summary:

This paper takes a look at the sport of soccer and how it has slowly been integrated into American society. The paper reports how soccer is still not considered to be a mainstream sport, but that more and more adults and youth are starting to to get caught up in the soccer "culture" that has been predominant in other countries worldwide.

From the Paper:

"As recently as twenty years ago soccer was seen by the vast majority of Americans as a foreign sport, as a sport that was only played in Europe and a sport that was totally useless. Since that time things have slowly changed and with the hosting of the 1994 World Cup in the United States, Americans were introduced to a sport that was as vibrant and colorful as some of the teams that played it in front of sold out crowds. The 1994 World Cup was one of the most profitable soccer tournaments ever held, and it had an immediate impact on the American soccer community, as well as American society in general.
The participation by crowds of Americans and foreigners interacting while observing the teams and players on the soccer pitches across America woke a 'sleeping giant'. Long before this event took place many in America's government knew that the world was to become modernized and with that modernization would also come a globalization. "

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