Soccer America: The unique case of American fandom

Scotty · Feb 9, 2008

The unique case of American fandom

Of the more than 40 national team games played across the world on Wednesday, only England's game at Wembley drew a larger crowd than the USA's 2-2 tie with Mexico in Houston, where a sellout crowd of 70,103 set a U.S. national team record for ticket sales income. Soccer America's Mike Woitalla checked out the fans in Texas.

Loren Tedder is the manager of the Soccer 4 All store in Rice Village, a few miles north of Reliant Stadium. In the days before the USA-Mexico game, replica jerseys of both teams, at $70 a pop, sold briskly.

"Usually the sales are 70-30 in favor of the Mexican shirts," says Tedder. "But I'd say the requests were almost 50-50 in the last few days. The problem was we had fewer of the new U.S. jerseys, which we just got last week, and sold out."
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asifdinho · Feb 9, 2008

good read..

tried to go get a US jersey myself - was sold out