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Although soccer is the sport in the United States, the history of soccer in the United States is one of the longest around, right next to the English or Scottish. After the British are prepared to form a set of rules for the game of football, were rushed to the New World, where Americans have learned to love the sport up, right next to another game that has taken strong roots in the United States at the time: baseball. In fact, the American Football Association is the second oldest sports league in the United States, after the Major League Baseball one.Obviously, history of soccer in the United States did not begin with a professional league, though (in terms of what we call today's professionals). The American Football Association, was started in 1884, semi-professional competition between New England and parts of the Midwest and was a rather chaotic environment to play football, yet was there and growing every year.
An organization of football in parallel, the American Amateur Football Association was founded at the same time, and both lived until 1913 when they merged in the American Football Association, the organization of professional football undergraduate complete the history of football in America.
American football (or USFA) was one of the first to join FIFA and as such attended the U.S. team in the early World Cups, although the game began to be overshadowed by baseball or football basketball.With also on the rise, the organization adopted a new name to avoid confusion, and was named the US Soccer Football Association. However, the history of U.S. soccer is about to experience a new change in the name of its Board of Directors in 1974 when the USSFA dropped "Football" from his roof and instead adopted the title of the United States Federation football, which is still used today.
While many wonder if the history of soccer in the United States begins so early, how football is not the main sport in the United States? Well, the truth is that the rather modest performance of the national men's early 20th century, combined with the sharp rise in baseball, basketball, football and hockey, meant that the country soon lost interest in football and Position American children had many alternatives, football is slowly released fashion.However with increasing performance to a good men's soccer team in the United States and the enormous success of the women's team football (which gets it into trophies for the first time in the history of soccer in the United States and remains one of the world powers in the game today), football is back in place and the children more and more Americans, which promotes sport in schools as Initially, things look promising for the future of football.


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