One thing about Soccer and its History is that its always gone hand-in-hand with Politics. Since the time Benito Mussolini used Soccer to promote the Italian Fascist Party to the infamous “Soccer War” between Honduras and El Salvador, soccer was involved.
In the relationship between Soccer and Politics, players have used Soccer as a vehicle to show their disapproval of the government. One famous incident involved Holland’s great footballer, Johan Cruyff. He made the decision to play for Barcelona FC over Real Madrid because he couldn’t play for a club associated with Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco.
Throughout decades, soccer has been utilized as a vehicle to address Social, Political, Economic, and Religious conditions & struggles in other parts of the world. While all those issues may have been …show more content…
While it maybe possible in other countries, is it possible in the United States where the NBA, NFL, and MLB are more popular than Major League Soccer?
One man believes so and his name is Kalman Menyhart. Prior to moving to the United States in 2002, Kalman had played professionally for almost 20 years as a goalkeeper for the Hungarian Football Federation and Belgian Football League from 1974-1992.
Following his retirement from soccer, Kalman obtained a Soccer Coach diploma from the Belgian Royal Union of Football Association where he studied in the Federal Soccer School in Brussels. With his coaching credentials, Kalman helped manage Austrian club VSE St. Polten.
Now living in California, Kalman believes soccer will help reduce the country's unemployment, foreclosures and the increase of poverty. In an excerpt from his 800-page proposal titled "Reforms, Investments in the US Soccer Guarantee New Employment Opportunities in the USA," Kalman