Brian Ching wrote an article about the current state of American Soccer which appeared in the Houston Chronicle on July 4, 2010.

Ching wrote: “For most of the rest of the world, athletes try to find stardom and a ticket out of poverty through soccer. So as folks around the United States wonder why the American national soccer team can lose to a tiny country like Ghana or tie Slovenia, which is the size of Houston, the reasons are quite simple.”

Story link: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/soc/wc/7093297.html