YOUTUBE SEARCH SOCCERTOWN USA: Being an Australian Football supporter, I sympathise with other footballing nations that struggle to find place in the culture of that particular place. In this case of US Soccer the parallels are always evident in that it is seen as a sport only for “the migrants”, and having to deal with local media “over willing” to find any chance to bring the game down. In the 1870s, Scottish immigrants brought soccer to Kearny, New Jersey. A few years later, they brought it to Brazil. While the game was spreading across Europe and South America, it was being played in the streets, parks, and playgrounds of a small town just across the meadows from New York City... but a world away. And in the 1980s, when the flame of American soccer was flickering, it was three kids from Kearny who helped save it. SOCCERTOWN, USA is the story of Tab Ramos, John Harkes, and Tony Meola, who grew up with a passion for the game in a country that didn’t share it. It’s the story of the ...