RealClearSports: Is Era of Soccer Finally Upon America?

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Art Spander in World Cup, articles, soccer, sports and society

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

LONDON -- Is this the end or the beginning? Does soccer, football to the rest of the world, finally capture the United States? Or was this World Cup fascination only a brief affair, a fling encouraged by ESPN, and little more?

Does it become only a sweet memory in anticipation of Drew Brees and Peyton Manning coming to training camp? Or when you think of fullbacks will it mean players who kick a round ball as much as those who occasionally carry an oval one?

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