"SOCCER IS NOW PART OF THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE"

America was not a traditional soccer-playing nation in her rich sporting history. The most popular sports in America are the American football, basketball, baseball and ice hockey. Today, the story is totally different. The whole nation of America is fully excited about the soccer match that is slated for today between America and Belgium at 4pm EST. So many huge public television view centers have popped up across the major cities of the United States in preparation for today's game that will go down in the history of soccer in America as the most viewed. America is rapidly becoming a soccer nation in our lifetime. Mr. Pele, the global soccer icon attempted to establish the professional football in America in the 1990s unsuccessfully. 

Today is 2014, America now has 16 functioning soccer leagues with more to spring up in the nearest future and more American cities are building new soccer stadia. All the 14,000 public school districts, thousands of other parochial, private and charter schools as well as over 4,000 colleges and universities in America now have growing soccer programs and competitions. About 35% of US citizens are now foreign-born who migrated into the United States mainly from the nations around the world that are historically and traditionally known as the soccer-playing societies. The love of soccer has finally arrived into the United States despite all these odds" ‪#‎AmericaIsNowASoccerNationIn2014‬.