Jim Axelrod meets with the “Men in Blazers” – soccer aficionados Michael Davies and Roger Bennett – who talk about the rise in popularity of soccer (sorry, football!) in the United States, and attribute it to the rise of a new medium: the Internet. They also talk with U.S. soccer legend Brandi Chastain, whose winning goal in the 1999 women’s World Cup final inspired generations of young girls to take up the sport.
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