When calcio first came to the North End

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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