Here's a note from us "Amercians"...
Except school-age children, who all get a ribbon or trophy just for participating, 99.9% of us couldn't give less than a purple pile of poisoned rat dung at "soccer".
We just don't care. It's not a sport to us. Running around kicking a ball and each other, only to fall screaming like a little school girl when someone gets close, having them race out a stretcher only to see your sorry ass back on the field in 5 minutes?? "Oh my GOD, Mary, I broke a NAIL!" ... and that's from the men's teams.
No thanks.
Heard 2 minutes on the radio this morning... what's with that gawdawful racket? 2 minutes was all I could take before I threw up in my mouth. Had to wash out my brain with some Roller-Derby.
When you get a real sport perhaps we'll watch.