I got a scholarship for playing soccer. I mean that game played on the rectangular field with a goal at each end.
Wow, you must be quite good. I believe most of the world calls that game football. What position do you play?
Yes and many people still play soccer in the United states. Well over 24.4 million people do. I am a defensive midfielder 
I live in the United States and am aware of the growing popularity of soccer. I have attended professional games and admire the devotion of fans to the sport.
most played team sport in the U.S., behind only basketball and American football. The popularity of the sport in the U.S. has been growing since the 1960s and 1970s and received a significant boost when the United States hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup and 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. It is the fourth most popular sport in the United States behind American football, baseball, and basketball, and is the second fastest growing sport in America, surpassed only by lacrosse.
The highest-level men's professional soccer league in
to lead the Tigers to their third consecutive victory over Harvard. After that game, Princeton coach Bill Roper praised Slagle's efforts:"Slagle played the most remarkable game today, in many ways, ever seen on a football field. When you consider that previously he had played only forty minutes of football during the present season and came out of the hospital only a week ago, I think the brilliance of his performance was unbeatable."
Slagle also played soccer and baseball at Princeton and was awarded the Poe Cup in June 1927 as