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What the U.S. World Cup Team (Still) Owes to Dallas
The Basketball Hall of Fame is in Springfield, Massachusetts, where James Naismith invented basketball; the National Baseball Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, New York, thanks to the shaky claim that Union General Abner Doubleday thought up baseball in the village. What about the National Soccer Hall of Fame? Does it rest in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where the first organized game in the United States was played? Or Princeton, New Jersey, where college teams faced off for the first time? Perhaps it’s in St. Louis, where, in 1883, the first U.S. soccer league was formed? None of the above. It’s in Frisco. That’s thanks to the influence of Lamar Hunt, the Dallas businessman who helped revive the sport in the U.S. before his death in 2006. It’s…The post What the U.S. World Cup Team (Still) Owes to Dallas appeared first on Texas Monthly.