Soccer in America

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Workd Sport's U.S. Inroads

Global Fervor Over World Cup Play

Henry A. Kissinger, rock musician Elton John1 and more than one-quarter of the human race share a craze for a sport most of the world knows as “football” and Americans know as soccer. Soccer, invented and exported by the British in the 19th century, is now played in all corners of the world. There are 146 member nations in the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the governing body for world soccer. And in mid-June, the world's best 24 national teams will kick off soccer's crowning event, the quadrennial World Cup competition.

Hundreds of thousands of soccer fans will descend on Spain, from nations as near as France and as far as New Zealand, for a month-long ...

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