In the past 15 years, soccer has gone from last to second place behind baseball as the most popular sport played by children. Approximately 1,800,000 youngsters participate in youth leagues and 220,000 adolescents (nearly one half young women!) play in high school programs.
Yet it remains a foreign game to the generation of adults who never played it and a non entity to network TV producers who cannot fit commercials into soccer s non stop action. If you want to see an avid football fan yawn, show him video highlights of the last world championship soccer series.
So why has soccer grown in popularity? The obvious answer is that kids seem to know what's best for them!
Children like to play sports, not learn them, and soccer is certainly simple enough. You simply tell youngsters to chase a ball and kick it without using their hands. If it goes into the net, so much the better ! More...
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