Soccer development in the US...

I don't buy it. I don't know what "the average American family" is anymore. The face of the US changes everyday with immigration. The media leads us to believe that there are less soccer players in this country than there actually are.... There are pick up games going on all over the place. If I choose to in the Summer, I can play any night of the week here in Seattle... If anything there's more soccer going on at the younger ages and it fades a little bit when kids hit high school. The people who are less involved are the media who were born in a previous generation. But, ESPN deportes is pretty huge and getting bigger...and there are plenty of fathers and sons who listen to that station as well.

In addition, there are Mexican-American soccer fans who are ridiculed for taking off their Mexican jerseys and exposing their USA jersey underneath. They have kids who play a very technical style of soccer in the parks of Burien, Hillsboro, Beaverton, etc. You can't ignore the growth of the sport in the suburbs. Colin Cowherd can only comment on his somewhat sheltered life in Connecticut...ESPN's headquarters. No offense, Colin.

You could argue that many immigrants will chose to play for their home country before they would chose the US, but, we did produce Claudio Reyna...and there could very well be more players like that in our future. Why not?