The high school will have a team. The pub will have a team. The police will have a team. Here, there's very little for people over 18 unless you're a superstar. Perhaps because there are so many other sports, soccer is largely a fall thing in America.
Brewer laughs when people say someone's played soccer all their life.
What they're effectively saying is they played 10 weeks. A kid in Brazil is going to grow up with a ball at their feet. The other sports are more lucrative. There's more scholarship money for football and basketball than for soccer. If a kid wants to be rich, he dreams of playing pro football, basketball, baseball or hockey.