For decades, America has been untouched by the allure of this beautiful game. As Guardian US soccer correspondent Jeff RueterChildhood fans of the game, he explains, football in America was a ‘shabby’ affair – unlikable, boring, a little different.
But, Helen Pidd Heard, things are starting to change. The U.S. men’s national team is performing brilliantly in the World Cup it hosts, and Americans are being wowed by traveling soccer teams and fans from the Scots in Boston to the Algerians in Kansas.
