how soccer affected the american society?
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While soccer has not caught on as a major professional sport like football, baseball, and basketball, it has had a major impact in colleges, high schools, and club and rec programs.  Many American youth now play soccer.  It may well be replacing baseball and softball as the first or most popular sport for youngsters.  "Soccer moms" are a political force.  They are the mothers who often work and drive the kids around to games and practices.\n\nSoccer is a growing sport in the US.  International success will help fuel its continued growth.
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The name of the sport in England was called "Association Football."  That was shortened in the U.S. to "Assoc. Football" then eventually to "soccer" from "Assoc."
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Soccer is just begining to get popular in the US as more youth and people are getting involved in it. As the more famous names come to the US, the more popular it gets.\n\nI believe it isnt as big in the US because American Football has taken the higher position here. As you see, soccer isnt even shown too much on TV or in magazines such as sports illustrated because half of their pages cover either American Football or Baseball. So when it isnt publicized enough, people don't really care much for it.\n\nThe rest of the world is a common place for soccer because it started with people as children. Many children in Europe, Africa, etc grew up playing only soccer (because soccer was their only main sport in the country) in their streets and I believe it spreads from there.\n\n\nHope that helps,\nGood luck
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Helping you out with your homework huh?  Well I will not make it 4 or five sentences long but will give you something to think about.  \nThe impact it has on the American history is it started the rebellion against taxation and the mother country.  The second thing is that Americans decided to govern themselves and form a new government.  It also lead to no one ruler will govern America, judicial system, legislative branch and the executive branch.  It lead to a revolt and to the rights of our civil liberties.
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First and foremost, I don't think that the dedication to the game of soccer is strong enough in the States.  There isn't anything a coach or more money will help if you don't have players that play the game from the time they learn to walk.  Americans have so many things on their plates, that they don't dedicate 100% to any particular sport.  In order to be competitive in the world arena, we need to have programs that offer the sport more than four months a year and the players need to dedicate their sporting lives to the game.  If they don't, we will continue to be mediocre.
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Its because we don't have a chance for it to grow on us. America is a culture that relies on the media heavily. Soccer isn't made for tv. It would be impossible to show commercials or anything like that. All of the other sports in America actually make breaks so that they can show commercials. Soccer just wouldn't fit in with what most people are used to. Therefore no big network would risk it.
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GOOD OLD FOOTBALL\n\nTHATS SOCCER TO ALL YOU AMERICANS
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In England, they called the official soccer organization the "Football Association", or FA.  Over the years this got shortened "The Assoc", which in turn got shortened even more to Soccer.  When the sport came over to the US, we already had the game of Football, and so this nickname from the English was adopted also.
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For you Americans who don't bother reading titles...this is a SOCCER question!\n\nI apologize on behalf of my ignorant countrymen.
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Soccer - I grew up in Europe, and I just can't and won't understand American football.
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I believe that it is the nature of America.  We like movies with explosions and quick action.  We love sports that have a lot of scoring like basketball.  Soccer is boring to us, we don’t appreciate 0-0 ties.  Also, our athletes here tend to be better suited for stop and go sports.  Like sprinting rather than marathon running, football and baseball, where the action stops constantly and we can have commercials.  Having said that, I could see soccer becoming bigger, as young kids here are playing it more and more so we’ll see.  Plus the last world cup brought together a great deal of people in America b/c we actually won something for once.
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Soccer didn't pick up in the US becouse our history tried to issolate ourselve from Europe, we tried to remove Europrian culture and influince in the US. We have begun to reverce our views and join Europe, but it's a slow process. The key reason is there is little Major leage Soccer attation, outside the World Cup, people know little about US professianl soccer. We have Football or "American Soccer" as europe would call it translated, we have Baseball while they have Rugby and Cricket.
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most american ppl dont watch MLS. football, baseball and basketball is where it's at
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Soccer (football) isn't popular in the US because it's boring.  There are better athletes and more money in other sports.  We don't grow up saying, "If I could only be David Beckham and play in the World Cup."  We say, "If I could only throw the winning touchdown pass in the Super Bowl."  Soccer players are glorified cross country runners with coordination.  On top of all that, we suck miserably at the sport because our best athletes go elsewhere.
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The answer is QUITE simple:WE DON'T CARE ABOUT SOCCER!\n\nTHE US RULES!!
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No doubt about it. Thanks for raising this interesting question.\n\nThis observation begs to be further investigated because it does have an interesting social impact.\n\nFootball, especially the FIFA World Cup tournament, is one of the few things in life that can galvanise a nation and have such a phenomenal simultaneous reaction from across the globe in the few weeks of its competition.\n\nIt is quite thought-provoking and perhaps may teach us something about what moves man to become one with his fellow countrymen, temporarily overlooking race, colour, and religion. \n\nMaybe there is still hope for this Earth if one day we realise that we too are one in this bigger team called the Human Race.\n\nThen perhaps there will be peace.
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and is this related to soccer how?