A buzz went around the stadium, bright lights shone on the field and a banner fluttered over some of the supporters. The players came out of the tunnel as the stadium erupted in 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. Traditional American sports fans will view football as boring due to its non-stop play and low-scoring games. I would advise anyone with these ideas to experience a football match in person, an unparalleled experience. The history of soccer is rich, mix that 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 emitted radiant special effects, the foundations of football were formed in ancient China. The game may have begun on the grounds of a public school in England, but the basics of kicking a ball were found in a Chinese military instruction document estimated at the second or third BC. The form of football was called “Tsu Chu”. Tsu Chu had the original concept of kicking a ball through a target, but while the soldier was being attacked by his comrades. In the Han dynasty, the ball was made of leather and filled with feathers and the use of hands was not allowed (classic football). This game laid the foundation for the game we know today and still play thousands of years later. Many people are unaware of the history of football and how long it has been a part of culture in the United States. The first major spark came with the famous New York Cosmos, an upstart semi-professional club that started in 1970. They began as an ambitious mid-paper project......final superstars to new heights. Notable stars who have succeeded Beckham include Thierry Henry, Djimi Traoré, Obafemi Martins, Tim Cahill, Jermaine Defoe, Nigel Reo-Coker, Mikael Silvestre, etc. These players probably wouldn't be in MLS without Beckham. With all these players coming to the United States, the question is: why hasn't soccer 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 organized-institutional, these interrelated factors go to the very heart of soccer's subordination to baseball, gridiron football, basketball, and to a lesser extent, ice hockey. Simply put, this means that football is trailing traditional American sports in terms of television time, radio and Internet space..