There are over 50 million Latinos in the United States<\/a>.\u00a0The population of Latinos has been growing since the 1970\u2019s. For Latinos, coming from countries where soccer is the #1 sport, to a country where soccer is at most, the 4th or 5th most important sport leaves Latinos, for the most part, looking for ways to feel close to home. For example, attendance at international soccer games when Mexico or another Latin American soccer powerhouse plays is huge. In the most recent Copa America tournament, the all-South American final had more than 82,000 people in attendance, breaking records for attendance. Mexico could arguably call the U.S. their home turf as well, considering El Tri fans consistently outnumber rival fans in attendance.<\/p>\nSoccer in the United States is growing. It\u2019s growing especially with the rise in the Latino population. In Colorado for example, by 2040 one-third of Coloradans will be Latino. Currently, \u00a021 percent of the total population of people in Colorado are Latinos. Will we see soccer become the #1 sport in the state, who knows but there is a large chance it could be. For that to happen, we have to continue providing access to quality soccer programs like we do at CRYSC. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cultural Significance of Soccer in the Latino Community Posted by:\u00a0Felipe Vieyra Soccer plays a large cultural role throughout Latin America. It\u2019s commonly accepted as a normal aspect of life.…<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[69,70,71,72,73,74,75],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25191,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/25191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}