Soccer, or fuzzyballs as it is called in the rest of the world, is played across the US. I played it back in the early 80s. We had a coach who was German. He was different than the baseball coaches. He didn't run practices by focusing on his favorite players. He had everyone doing drills with others at different skill levels. Now that I think back to it, I have no idea where he came from, what he was doing in our small town, but he knew what he was doing. And, he ran everyone hard. When we got a break, we would drink from glass jugs. The fact that your germs and others were on the same bottle is kind of gross but we were all so thirsty, it didn't matter. It was not as popular as baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey, or lacrosse, but it was a sport available for children in children's leagues and high school.
Since then, it is more popular. The thing I don't like is that in the US, they have young kids playing what I call "Bee soccer". One kid is dribbling the soccer ball and everyone is following him like a bee swarm. Then, you look at a National Geographic magazine and you got African or South American kids playing with a full-size ball: kicking, passing, trapping, etc. American soccer is improving though. More in some places than others. When you have better coaches, you have better instruction, better football. Only a small number of Americans have "made it" to the professional leagues in Europe. That's not surprising. It's going to stay that way too for now.
