I know we are out but this was the goal to put us in. I came upon this video online showing the reaction of places around the world after Landon Donovan scored the winning goal. What this puts into perspective is how large soccer could be compared to Football, Basketball, Baseball, and Hockey. If only USA would support it at levels of the other sports.
http://www.break.com/index/world-reacts-to-landon-donovans-goal.html#comments-target
i agree. it wll be supported, because baseball, football etc all started out small, took a while, and look where it is now. will we get teh passionate fans/riots some countries have? fans, hopefully. riots , hopefully not