I listened in awe as a 13 year-old expert sitting behind me explained the differences between zonal and man-to-man marking to her peers. She painstakingly pointed out each New England player's technical abilities and shortcomings, and sharply criticized the home team's poor execution of an offside trap. Impressive, inspiring stuff! Cultural factors help us shed more light on the so-called "failure" of soccer in the United states. Americans embraced "indigenized" sports more readily than "pure" imports. Basketball came from netball-type games, baseball from rounders, and gridiron football from rugby. But soccer was never indigenized. This peculiar process, one that Andrei Marskovits has called "The Other American Exceptionalism," has contributed to the exclusion of soccer from mainstream American high performance sports.

While no one should expect older white (male) Americans and die-hard NFL fans to suddenly fall in love with "the world game," it is clear that grassroots support, an improving MLS, the trailblazing women's game, and stable corporate interest are feeding a Wonderful Awakening. Having enjoyed the game since the latter half of the 19th century, the American public-defined broadly and inclusively-is once again seeking solace in the unpredictable spectacle that unfolds everywhere soccer is performed.

An Italian-born historian teaching in the USA, Alegi has played and coached soccer in Italy, the US, and South Africa. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for his doctoral research in South Africa (1997-98) and has taught university seminars on the history, politics, and cultures of world soccer . Alegi is currently working on publishing a manuscript on the social history of Soccer in South Africa. You can visit his "Soccer Doctor" web site at: http://people.bu.edu/palegi/.

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