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The Impact of the World Cup in America
Why was football so slow to catch on in America yeah? I think it's an interesting question and I'm not sure the answer is that straightforward. soccer didn't suddenly kind of emerge and find its way alongside baseball or American football or even basketball after after 1994. The historian Joshua and Natal has argued that actually one of its big impacts was on particular elements of of US society.
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