Posts Tagged ‘Soccer’

According to Manchester United ‘fans’, anybody who has ever played for the first team is a legend! This also appears to be the stance taken by the club itself often calling the most average of ex-players, (and some downright poor ones), by this vastly overused title.

To take the examples of two very good players in Wayne Rooney and Marcus Rashford, (very good but far from legendary), we here at WSA think there has been such a dearth of real legends that these two are as near to the ‘fans’ idea of legends as it is possible to get, (without actually being one).

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Soccer really took off in America in 1989 when Paul Caligiuri scored what became known as the ‘billion dollar goal’ to beat  Trinidad 1-0 and qualify for the 1990 World Cup. There is a particularly good article in the Guardian, which can be found here.

In fact, the game has been around in America since about 1884. This may come as a surprise to some, but it shouldn’t do. When you think of the ethnicity of the USA, the only real surprise should be that it has taken this long to gain in popularity. (more…)