A buzz surrounded the stadium, twinkling lights shone brightly on the pitch and a banner waved above a section of fans. The players emerged from the tunnel as the stadium exploded with a roar. This is America's future sport, football. In the coming years, football will be comparable in popularity to any league in the world. Mainstream American sports fans will pass off soccer as boring due to its non-stop play and low-scoring games. I would recommend anyone having these thoughts to experience a live football match, an unparalleled experience. The history of football is rich, mix it with the growing popularity of the sport in America and we have a winning formula that can only bring success to America. Long before stadiums were filled with fans and jumbotrons blared special effects, the foundations of football were formed in ancient China. The game may have begun in English public schoolyards, but the basis for kicking a ball was found in a piece of Chinese military instruction estimated to date from the 2nd or 3rd BC. The football form was called “Tsu Chu”. Tsu Chu had the original idea of ​​kicking a ball through a target, but while the soldier was attacked by his fellow soldiers. During the Han Dynasty, the ball was made of leather and filled with feathers, and the use of hands was not allowed (classical football). This game laid the foundation of the game we know today and continue to play thousands of years later. Many people are unaware of the history of football and how long it has been a part of the culture in the United States. The first big spark came with the famous New York Cosmos, an emerging semi-professional club that began its activity in 1970. They began as an ambitious project of the...... middle of paper...... latest superstars to new levels. Some notable stars who came after Beckham include Thierry Henry, Djimi Traore, Obafemi Martins, Tim Cahill, Jermaine Defoe, Nigel Reo-Coker, Mikael Silvestre, etc. These players probably wouldn't be in MLS if it weren't for Beckham. With all these players coming to the United States, the question is: why hasn't football become as popular as MLB or the NFL? The authors of Offside: Soccer and Exceptionalism cite the alleged lack of motivation on “Labeled historical-cultural-sociological, anthropological, and organizational-institutional, these interconnected factors go to the very heart of soccer's subordination to baseball, American football, basketball, and, to a slightly lesser extent, ice hockey.” In pedestrian terms this means that football is being beaten out for TV, radio and internet space by traditional American sports..