What is this place?

The women’s World Cup has kicked off this week in Australia and New Zealand where the US Women’s Nation Team (USWNT) look for their 5th World Cup. Messi has just joined Inter Miami in a monumental move for Major League Soccer (MLS) and all of American soccer, and Americans are embracing it with open arms.

Soccer in America has grown in popularity exponentially in the last 5-10 years. We still have a long way to go to catch up with the rest of the world where we live and breathe soccer, where team pride and loyalty runs generations deep in family blood, and the passion of fans injects life into players. We’re still missing those foundational pieces, but we’re getting there.

We admit, as Americans, we’re relatively new to this, and we’re still learning. With our generation (Xennials), soccer resources were scarce, and a fan base for any team was non-existent as the internet made its way into residential homes. Now we have the internet to buy soccer gear with the click of a button to be shipped to our house within days. We have streaming services to watch any game we want around the world, and are able to support our favorite teams on devices that fit into our hands. We have social media to follow our favorite player’s every thought.

We hope this blog can provide some of the missing bricks of resources and knowledge imperative to building the foundation for the passion for the next generations of players and fans.

Child with Messi jersey on parent’s shoulders celebrates Argentina’s World Cup 2022 win. Photo credit to Fabrizio Velez.