"I just felt something special was happening to American soccer."

The talk shifted to soccer and the fact that the boy would not be playing for a while.

Its main goal was to prepare college players for the step up to international soccer.

He turned to soccer instead, his athletic ability helping him.

In junior high, he went back to soccer and was the captain of the team.

He is 34 now, and came to full-time professional soccer at the relatively late age of 24.

"I thought 'Why would you send them to soccer three days a week?' "

So there is a really big fashion element to soccer.

Americans, interested in so many other sports, have never been as attracted to soccer.

But I have two girls who are doing everything, from tennis to swimming to soccer.