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I live in Argentina. Based on what I see from movies, news, and TV series from the US. It seems that in the US football (soccer) is considered a game usually pl
by diegof79 8y ago
I live in Argentina. Based on what I see from movies, news, and TV series from the US. It seems that in the US football (soccer) is considered a game usually played by girls.
Here in Argentina, it's a different story.
Until the last years, football was considered a men's only game (and still is for many).
If your daughter wants to play football, you don't have teams or football schools to send her. So girls usually have more options to learn volleyball, field hockey, or handball.
Fortunately, that started to change. However, the professional football league is still men's only. There is a women's league, but it has zero presence on media.
The media sponsorship have a lot of influence on how professional teams develop, that could explain why the US women team performs better compared to other countries where football is still limited to men (that includes most of the Latin American countries, and probably Europe too).
- ghaff 8y agoI don't think it's that soccer is really seen as just a girl's game in the US. But there are major US sports, notably American football but also baseball (women mostly play softball) and, to a lesser degree, ice hockey that women largely don't play. As a result, although boys/men play soccer, they're more likely to spend their time playing something else.