When calcio first came to the North End

Jul 29, 2014 749

Soccer via the World Cup is making the headlines this past month. Recently, in column for in the Clarion-Ledger, Ann Coulter helped it along when she linked the growing popularity of soccer to "moral decay" in the United States. I thought it was a funny column, a tongue-in-cheek stab at the definite media hype around this increasingly (albeit quadrennially) popular sport.


One point she spoke a definite truth: "If more 'Americans' are watching soccer, it is only because of the demographic switch" brought about by the 1965 immigration law.

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Fonte: Bostoniano

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