On all continents, the national football selections are currently playing their qualification games for the World Cup. On September 4, African teams are on the ground. The World Cup will be next summer in three countries: Mexico, Canada and especially the United States, with 11 of the 16 cities selected.
More than 30 years after the mixed experience of 1994, the soccer, the American appellation, therefore returns to the assault of an America where football, the most popular sport on the planet, is still foreign to a whole part of the population.
And yet, from the end of the 19th century, the round ball arrived in the suburbs of New York in the suitcases of British migrants. He rides, he has been riding … For 150 years, but there is still ground to go.
“America, a new world for the round ball?” », A great report by Thomas de Saint Leger, produced by Pauline Leduc.
