Soccer
futbol rant time. After the news that the
U.S. has lost out on a chance to host the World Cup in 2022, suicide prevention hotlines have apparently been flooded with calls from despondent fans. JOKE! No, see, they haven’t because that scenario only occurs in countries that actually care about the sport. What I did see though was the almost universal reaction that this *loss* would now set the U.S. back 20 years in terms of soccer development here.
Seriously?
Are they out of their minds? Without getting into all the dynamics at work, the main thing is that the way we play the game internationally is a totally separate issue from how we promote and play it at a grassroots level. How we advertise our international game? A distant third from those two things.
