What do you think of the development prospect of football in America?

The level of professional league itself is not high, so it is necessary to introduce a large number of advanced international coaches and their high-level players to improve the level of the league, so as to improve the level of players in this country. Moreover, the United States has a mature commercial operation mode of ball games. I believe that their league level will be improved, and the level of American football will still be improved. The history of American football is a surprising and intoxicating story. Although the United States is one of the main destinations for immigrants when sports are expanding around the world, as the birthplace of basketball, baseball and rugby, the United States has never been as obsessed with football as other countries in the world.

However, the United States has never stopped its contact with this sport. In the past 30 years, they have made incredible progress and become one of the most successful countries in football in the world.

Primitive period

The earliest football club in America was the Boston Oneida team. The club was founded in 1862, and it is also one of the earliest clubs established outside England. 1884, the American Football Association tried to standardize the rules of the game used at that time, and in the same year organized the first international game outside the British Isles-the United States against Canada.

19 14 The American Football Association (now USSF) joined FIFA and became the official management body of the sport. In the same year, the National Challenge Cup (now the US Open) was founded. The officially recognized national team competition in the United States appeared in 19 16, and went to Sweden and Norway to play against their opponents respectively.

Because American universities are keen on football and later American football, football has been ignored. At the beginning of the 20th century, football was only popular in areas with mixed races on the east coast of the United States. However, at the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games, football was designated as a performance event, and the city became a hotbed for the development of this sport. It is also favored by some midwestern cities in the United States, such as Chicago and Pittsburgh.

Participated in the first global activity.

1930, the first FIFA World Cup? In Uruguay, the United States became one of the invited 13 teams, and reached the semi-finals after successively beating Belgium and Paraguay. They were badly defeated by Argentina in the semi-final, but so far, reaching the semi-final is still the team's best result in the World Cup.

In the next half century or so, American football gradually withered, although they had a landmark performance in the World Cup in Brazil at 1950, defeating the arrogant English team with a team hastily formed by semi-professional players. Today, many people still think that the match in belo horizonte is the biggest upset in the history of FIFA World Cup.

The North American Football League (NASL) was founded in 1968, but it was not until Pele, a three-time FIFA World Cup champion, unexpectedly came here to join the new york cosmos team that American football began to really revive.

Bailey and the Renaissance of American Football

The North American Football League is unique in attracting the world's top superstars and initially promoted the revival of American football. Franz Beckenbauer, george best, Carlos alberto, johan cruyff, Eusébio, trevor francis, Johan Neeskens and others came here with Bailey, and their arrival greatly improved the status of football when various sports in the United States complement each other.

Most importantly, it also promoted the revival of youth football. Since then, young people, both men and women, have always taken part in football. The recovery of American football reached a commendable height at 1990. Five years after the official cancellation of the North American Football League, the American men's soccer national team advanced to the FIFA World Cup finals for the first time in 40 years.

The following year, the American women's national team won the first FIFA Women's World Cup in China. Since then, the team has been standing at the peak of the sport, and the American men's football team has also participated in every major international football match.

Football came to America.

From 65438 to 0994, the United States approached the FIFA World Cup with amazing enthusiasm, and they still keep the record of the total audience. As the host country, the team advanced to the FIFA World Cup knockout for the first time since 1930, but lost to the later champion Brazil on Independence Day.

Five years later, the United States once again hosted the most successful event, and the popularity and media attention of the FIFA Women's World Cup reached an unprecedented height. In front of 90,000 enthusiastic fans in Los Angeles, the United States held high the gold cup for the second time. In this rapidly developing sport, they have become the most representative team in the world.

The success of the national team has also promoted and ensured the establishment of the top men's and women's leagues in the United States, namely, the Major League Soccer and the American Women's League Soccer. Although there are always people who doubt whether they have long-term economic viability, it turns out that these two leagues are very successful, providing American players with opportunities to exercise themselves in high-level competitions.