A great article in New York Magazine.

Will Leitch makes the case for what we’ve always wanted to believe: Soccer is the Next-Big-Thing in the USA:

Every four years, someone comes around telling you that this is the year, really, for real, that soccer breaks through in America. (Grantland’s popular Men in Blazers podcast’s motto is “Driven by the belief that soccer is America’s Sport of the Future. As it has been since 1972.”) But this time I mean it: Soccer is about to explode in America, and the U.S. soccer team is an indie band right before they break out. It’s hipster patriotism.

The article appears in the June 2, 2014 issue.