Pele played for New York Cosmos;
Beckham played for LA Galaxy;
Messi is now playing for Inter Miami;
USA hosted FIFA World Cup in 1994.
But soccer has always been overshadowed by the Big 3 in American sports - American football, basketball, baseball.

Conservatives i.e. Republican supporters have always hated soccer, calling it a sissy's sport - the same way /k branded pickleball.

But now something happened...
- Trump and FIFA boss have become BFF
- Trump participated in World Cup draw
- He was awarded FIFA Peace Price

Come next summer, I suspect FIFA will tell the referees to 'help' USMNT.
If USMNT make it to quarterfinal, or even semifinal, American conservatives will finally embraced soccer...

Clinton was Democrat. Trump is a republican. That's a big difference.
Republicans, and especially Maga-ists, even if they still prefer NFL, would at least stop ridiculing soccer as a sissy's sport.

Talking about brutal, boxing was the most popular sport in the US 50 years ago, more so than NFL.