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PARTICIPATION RATES Thirty percent of households in the United States have at least one family member who plays soccer. The number of girls who play soccer in the United States has slowly but surely been on the rise. The United States currently has more children playing soccer than any other country in the world. Approximately 3.9 million American children play soccer, and 1.6 million of those children are girls. This number is higher than the number of girls that play soccer in all other countries combined. It's likely that the massive success of the U.S. Women’s World Cup team is partly responsible for this amazing popularity. Soccer is currently the number three most- played sport by high school girls (behind basketball and volleyball), and is slowly inching closer and closer to number one.

The tremendous success of the USWNT is largely responsible for the explosion in popularity of girls' soccer.

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