Ok in response to rocheyb...
Yes! The possibilities are endless with my hypothetical world. It really is hard to predict what would have happened and it is fun to speculate how America, if it kept its act together, might have changed the soccer universe...or maybe it would have little effect...
Update #9
The 90's were exciting times for US Soccer. Despite the failure and near collapse of the NASL in the 80's, US soccer and its fans were looking forward to a new top division and hosting the 1994 World Cup. Preparations were made within the US Soccer pyramid to form a more...
Update 8
The 80's. Big hair. Leather and lace. MTV. Pacman.
While the Reagan Revolution was affecting the majority of Americans, another revolution of sorts was influencing US soccer. The NASL reached its zenith in the early 80's, mounting a serious challenge to the Old ASL's status as...
Update #9
The 90's were exciting times for US Soccer. Despite the failure and near collapse of the NASL in the 80's, US soccer and its fans were looking forward to a new top division and hosting the 1994 World Cup. Preparations were made within the US Soccer pyramid to form a more...
Update 8
The 80's. Big hair. Leather and lace. MTV. Pacman.
While the Reagan Revolution was affecting the majority of Americans, another revolution of sorts was influencing US soccer. The NASL reached its zenith in the early 80's, mounting a serious challenge to the Old ASL's status as...
So while I've been going though the 80's a couple questions came to mind. Feedback would be great!
1. Consolidation of clubs- For realism's sake, should this be done? For example, Paterson, NJ has 6 teams. Paterson has a little over 100k people living there. Does that seem realistic...
Update #7
The 70's was another interesting chapter in American history. Long hair, afros, bellbottoms and disco was in. The Vietnam war ended, the Cambodian massacres began, and Watergate closed the door on "Tricky ****". Elvis died, Star Wars premiered in theaters and a little known...
Update #6
The 60's began to define American throughout the decade. The Vietnam war had been raging for 5 years, with no end in sight. The Cold War began to escalate further with the Bay of Pigs. JFK was assassinated in '63, ushering in LBJ as the new President. Martin Luther King Jr. died...
Update #5
The 50's started with promise for US Soccer. Team USA made history by beating England 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup, a major upset that would never be forgotten. But that would be the only highlight of the decade. For the rest of the world, the Cold War had begun, yet America...
Update #4
The 40's were an interesting decade for soccer in the US. US soccer at by the end of the decade reached the halfway mark in the 20th century, but what was to show for it? The ASL and ESL were strong leagues in the early century only to fizzle after the Market Crash and the Soccer...
Update #3
The boom of the 20's grew ever more in stark contrast to the misery of the 30's as the US reached the end of the decade. Ten years since the stock market crash thousands were still out of work, jobs were still scarce, and the economy no better under the tenure of FDR. Roosevelt...
Update #2
This is quickly becoming a grueling process...and I've only begun! But thanks to Microsoft Excel and a baseball simulator I own I am beginning to pick up a little speed as more and more teams are being added and I am trying to figure out the natural growth of growing leagues and such...
Update #1
So far I've created league standings up through 1920. The growth of the leagues slowed a bit as the US got into WWI, but now the Roaring Twenties are here and the top league, the National Association Football League, will restructure into the American Soccer League: two divisions with...
And by the way, I won't be including the Canadian teams in this alternate reality. The growth of US soccer spurs the growth and expansion of Canadian soccer as well, thus Toronto FC and Vancouver will be playing in the CSL, not the APL. This way both countries will be stronger and hopefully a...
As of now I have sorted the teams by their founding dates and will now begin to create league and team histories year-by-year starting with the NAFBL in 1895. Since a lot of teams floated in and out of the soccer leagues in every era of US soccer, each year's standings will be unchanged mostly...