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Soccer (association football), known simply as football in many countries, has long been a popular sport in the United States. It is the most popular recreational sport for both boys and girls and has been so for about 25 years. This late 20th century boom is attributed for the most part to the existence of the North American Soccer League from 1967 to 1984, and the New York Cosmos, its marquee team which included among its players stellar names like Franz Beckenbauer and Pel.
However, professional soccer has been less popular in the United States than in Latin American, Asian, African or European nations. Its professional first-division league is not as well-attended in general as the major leagues of American football, baseball or basketball, but Major League Soccer is also much younger, and has far fewer teams. Major League Soccer debuted in 1996, while other major U.S. leagues have each existed since the first half of the 20th century.
Although MLS is also much younger than most other countries' first divisions, and has 15 teams in 2009, they are already the 12th most-attended premier division in the entire world . In 2006, MLS broke its all-time record for attendance at a regular-season match, which saw 92,650 spectators fill the Los Angeles Coliseum on a Sunday in August ; although that claim is somewhat misattributed to the MLS game as it was one of two games played that night, the second being a match between two power-houses of the Spanish speaking soccer world: FC Barcelona and CD Guadalajara.
In 2007, with the arrival of international superstar player such as David Beckham, attendance records for specific MLS teams and stadiums continue to rise. Additionally, the US and Mexico national teams have been playing in front of crowds in excess of 60,000 in the U.S. in recent years, and have also broken several stadium, city, and state attendance records for matches held in the past five years. Television viewership of soccer in the U.S. is at an all-time high, with major sports networks regularly covering games in some fashion and several other channels dedicated mostly or entirely to the sport.
Until recently, American soccer was more of a regional phenomenon than it is today. Soccer flourished in hotbeds such as New Jersey, New York, St. Louis, Southern California, and in areas with large immigrant populations that grew up with the game in their homelands. But soccer is now gradually gaining popularity all over the country, partially due to youth programs, the creation of a Major League Soccer as a high quality professional league, and the recent success of the men's and women's national teams.
Contents
1 History of soccer in the U.S.
2 Expansion in popularity
3 American players in foreign leagues
3.1 U.S. women professional players today
4 American soccer leagues and associations
5 American teams
6 See also
7 Footnotes
8 References
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History of soccer in the U.S.
It is often claimed that the Oneida Football Club of Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1862 was the first club to play soccer outside Britain. However, the club could not have been playing soccer, as they were formed before the English Football Association (FA) formulated the rules; it is not known what rules the club used, and it broke up within the space of a few years. According to Encyclop?dia Britannica, the club is often credited with inventing the "Boston Game", which both allowed players to kick a round ball along the ground, and to pick it up and run with it.
The first U.S. match known to have been inspired by FA rules was a game between Princeton University and Rutgers University on November 6, 1869, which was won by Rutgers 6-4. The FA rules were followed in the Princeton-Rutgers contest: participants were only allowed to kick the ball and each side had 25 players. Other colleges emulated this development, but all of these were converted to rugby by the mid-1870s and would soon become famous as early bastions of American football.
Early soccer leagues in the U.S. mostly used the name "football", for example: the American Football Association (founded in 1884), the American Amateur Football Association (1893), the American League of Professional Football (1894), the National Association Foot Ball League (1895), and the Southern New England Football League (1914). However, the word "soccer" was beginning to catch on, and the St Louis Soccer League was a significant regional competition between 1907 and 1939. What is now the United States Soccer Federation was originally the U.S. Football Association, formed in 1913 by the merger of the American Football Association and the American Amateur Football Association. The governing body of the sport in the U.S. did not have the word soccer in its name until 1945, when it became the U.S. Soccer Football Association. It did not drop the word...(and so on)

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