![]() ![]() “But I wouldn’t be surprised to see soccer rival hockey’s popularity.” “I don’t know we’ll ever see a day that it’s on par with football, baseball or basketball,” Mr. Denman, who has led the Woodbury/Bethlehem team for five years, the Chiefs won the last two Berkshire League Titles. ![]() ![]() “I’ve seen a sparked interest in the younger generations, much more so than in years past,” said Toby Denman, the head coach of the champion Nonnewaug High School boys soccer team. Still, some local enthusiasts see the game growing in popularity, even if incrementally. soccer fans-and no mistake, there are some to be found-know this. But are we? Though a practically compulsory team sport for American children, soccer has never really enjoyed the kind of enthusiastic spectator fervor as football (our football,) basketball, baseball, hockey and for reasons still unclear to this writer, stock car racing. We should all be ecstatic, as our mid-tier team opened a respectable start in the most-watched single sport tournament on the planet. Better than a loss, which would’ve given our country zero tournament credits going into our upcoming battle with Slovenia, a tie granted us a point (a win grants three) and slightly better leverage for moving into the next round of action. ![]()
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