The game across America

Soccer in the United States is played across many levels and settings, from professional competition and structured development to college fields, public parks and weekly recreational games.

GEN SOCCER begins with the sport itself: performance, preparation, competition, coaching and the environments in which players develop. The publication also follows the people, businesses, media and communities around the field because each helps shape how the game is experienced.

The American game is connected to soccer worldwide through players, clubs, ideas, audiences and investment. Those connections are part of the coverage, alongside the local stories that give soccer a different character from one city and community to another.

This is not an official account or a single definition of American soccer. It is independent reporting and storytelling about a sport shared by players and supporters across generations.

The coverage begins with the sport and expands to the people and ideas around it.