Kids play street soccer throughout the world.
In South America, Central America and Africa, for example, an improvised soccer game in the street is a way of life. But in Western Europe, in countries such as Holland, West Germany and the United Kingdom, kids rarely play soccer without supervision. In North America it has been necessary to structure and organize the game. Soccer is not the major sport on this continent as it is in the rest of the world. Consequently, it does not have the profile nor, more importantly, the role models.