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Soccer In the U.S. - mid level
Soccer in the United States is commonly known as U.S. Soccer. There are many levels of
soccer in the country, including the national teams, professional leagues, and the amateur
game.
With over 13 million Americans playing soccer in the United States, soccer is the third
most played team sport in the U.S., behind only basketball and baseball/softball.
The popularity of soccer in the U.S. has been growing since the 1960s and 1970s, and got
a big boost when the United States was host for the 1994 World Cup.
The highest professional soccer league in the U.S. is Major League Soccer. MLS began
play in 1996 with 10 teams, and has grown to 20 teams (17 in the United States and 3 in
Canada), with further expansion (mer utbyggnad) planned. The MLS season runs from
March to December,. With about 20,000 people watching each game MLS has the third
highest amount of watchers of any sports league in the U.S.
Soccer fans also follow the U.S. national teams in international competition. The 2015
FIFA Women's World Cup Final drew a record 26.7 million viewers, greater than final
games of the 2014 World Series or the 2015 NBA Finals, and the 2010 Men's World Cup
final drew 26.5 million viewers[11] Themen's national team has played in every World Cup
since 1990, and the women's national team has won three Women's World Cup titles and
four gold medals at the Summer Olympics.
Best male and female players
Landon Donovan
What can be said of Landon Donovan? He was the rare combination of gifted goalscorer
and midfielder. He was a lightning-fast one-man counter-attack. His genius – and his
achievements (prestationer) – stand alone among the American players.
Donovan retired (drog sig tillbaka) from the game at the age of 32. He was then on the top
list of goals and assists.
For years, when the US needed, Donovan stepped up and delivered (levererade).
In 2015, he was named by The Guardian as the greatest male American soccer player of
all-time.
Donovan was born on March 4, 1982, in Ontario, California, to Donna Kenney-Cash, a
special education teacher, and Tim Donovan, a semi-professional ice hockey player
originally from Canada, which makes Donovan a Canadian citizen by descent (härkomst).
His mother raised him and his siblings in Redlands, California.[12]
When Donovan was six, his mother allowed him to join an organized league, and he
scored seven goals in his first game. In 1997, he was accepted into U.S. Youth Soccer's
Olympic Development Program. He has played for many teams for ex. Bayern Munich in
Germany.
Alex Morgan
Soccer player Alex Morgan has starred
for the U.S. national teams that won
Olympic gold and the FIFA Women's
World Cup.
Alex Morgan became the youngest member of the U.S. women's national soccer team in
2009, and was the first overall pick in the 2011 Women's Professional Soccer draft
(uttagning) . At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, Morgan won her first Olympic gold
medal by helping the U.S. women defeat Japan. Three years later, she was a leader on
the team that again defeated (besegrade)Japan to win the FIFA Women's World Cup.
Early Life
Alex Morgan was a multisport athlete growing up, but she didn't start playing organized
soccer until she was 14 years old. She attended (gick på) Diamond Bar High School,
where she was a three-time all-league pick and was named an NSCAA All-American. After
high school, Morgan went to the University of California at Berkeley.
In 2008, she helped the United States get to the championship of the FIFA U-20 Women’s
World Cup, scoring the winning goal in the final against North Korea—named the Goal of
the Tournament and second-best Goal of the Year by FIFA.
In 2012, Morgan landed a spot on the U.S. Olympic women's soccer team. At the 2012
Summer Olympic Games, held in London, Morgan won her first Olympic medal, a gold,
with the American team. The team beat Japan, 2-1, in a revengeful match watched by
nearly 80,300—the largest soccer crowd in Olympics history.
Injured (skadad) in the knee during the spring of 2015, Morgan was not at full strength by
the start of the FIFA World Cup in June. However, the star forward returned to the starting
lineup by the close of group play, and went on to help the U.S. women claim their first
World Cup title since 1999.
In March 2016, Morgan joined several of her teammates to file a complaint (klagomål) of
wage (lön) discrimination against U.S. Soccer, where women's and men's wages was not
equal.