00:00Don't you agree a couple years ago, you know, everyone started looking at the NBA and you started seeing people
00:06like Wemby Joker.
00:08You could see all the great European players and that goes back all the way to Barcelona and what David
00:12Stern.
00:13Do you think we'll ever get a moment for U.S. men's soccer where that galvanizes American athletes to want
00:21to stick with it?
00:22Because, Christine, you tell me, don't you think that kids from the ages of 12 to 15, that's where that
00:28changed from wanting to play soccer to wanting to go and play the other sports?
00:31Do you ever think that'll change?
00:34Yeah, for boys, you've got a great point, you know, where does soccer lose them?
00:40Because you have them.
00:42You have every boy and every girl at age five and age six, right?
00:45That's where they start.
00:46It's with T-ball, obviously, some of that, of course, as well.
00:50Baseball being a sport, Americans, kids have played for over 100 years.
00:54But also, of course, soccer now entering the picture over the last, say, 30, 40 years.
00:59And, you know, can it trickle up, right?
01:01That's the question you're asking me.
01:03Not trickle down, but trickle up from that moment.
01:06The women, yes.
01:07Of course, that's Title IX.
01:09That's the law signed by Richard Nixon 54 years ago, actually.
01:12Right now, 54 years, that changed the playing fields of America.
01:16And that's why U.S. women's soccer is so dominant, because other countries didn't care about women's sports.
01:20We did.
01:21And that's why our women's soccer team is light years ahead of most of the others around the world.
01:26The men, they're so far behind, right?
01:29Catching up is the big part of this question.
01:31But, yeah, I mean, let's see what happens here, because we know from the 1980 hockey, men's hockey, at that
01:39time there was only men's hockey, in the Olympics, and how kids wanted to start playing hockey.
01:43We've certainly seen, as you said, 92 Dream Team in Barcelona.
01:46I was there at that Olympics covering it.
01:49And, you know, that's where the explosion happened around the world.
01:52So is it possible, your question is a good one, and I'll answer it with a question, is it possible
01:58that a great result, and when I say a great result, I mean, you know, Sweet 16, the round of
02:0216, but I even think quarterfinals, getting to the final eight.
02:07If that's, and then it's beyond rarefied air if they get, you know, to the final four, the U.S.
02:13men's team.
02:14But if they do, then yes, I think it will have an impact moving forward over the next 20 years.
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