Sports

August 2, 2012

America Finally Gets Soccer (Magazine)

GQ's Mark Kirby helps found a periodical devoted to the world's most popular sport that is gaining ground in Brooklyn and elsewhere in the US.

Justin Adler

Stateside soccer is popular enough that Major League Soccer is on pace to overtake the NHL as America's fourth biggest league. The game is big enough that Fox paid $425 million for the rights to 2018 and 2022 World Cup coverage.

But is there enough demand for a new soccer magazine in an era when print magazines are flopping harder than Didier Drogba after a phantom tackle?







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