An estimated 50,000 supportersofGermanywatchtheWorld Cupsoccer matchbetweenGermany and GhanaatapublicviewingareainHamburg, Germany, on Wednesday, June23, 2010.
There is strong support for youth soccer in many places like the Washington area.
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Mike Banner got his start in the Washington area through local recreational soccer.
VOA: special.2010.06.02
Here's the problem with that plan: The New York area already has a sparkling stadium in an area filled with soccer-crazed immigrants that is a cheap, 20-minute train ride from Manhattan.
Then, like a middle-income couple with young children, the league decided Manhattan was too crowded and too expensive, and it spent the past year closing in on a deal for a stadium in Queens in an area filled with soccer-crazed immigrants that would be a cheap, 20-minute train ride from Manhattan.