PorkChop wrote:Fair play to the USA, hopefully this victory continues to increase the profile of the sport over there.
Over the last 3-4 years there's been a huge increase in support of the sport here, both on an international level and just in the MLS teams. The women's soccer team here was getting almost as much of a following as the men's team was last year, that's something that NEVER would have happened 4-5 years ago.
It's a lot of people my age who have grown up with the sport and are really becoming die hards. Milwaukee (where I live) especially is really getting invested in soccer, even though we don't have an MLS team anywhere near (fuck rooting for Chicago in anything!).
Soccer definitely continues to gain momentum here. They just still need to make broadcasts of MLS games more accessible.