ATL: The Black Soccer Culture No One Knew Existed
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I had "if blacks started playing soccer they'd take over the sport" arguments with my nigerian friends since 99
It's never going to happen brehs, just too much of a cultural shift imo.
I had a good run stanning Demarcus Beasley for a couple years but it is what it is
so blacks can take over everywhere else but in the US right?
staticshock
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i got a Hawks avy but baseball my favorite sport. My little cousin play HS baseball in Clay Co and he been playing since he was like 7. I go to a few of his games and his team is all black and all the teams he play against are all black. Every time I go to his house him and his friends are playing MLB The Show. Its going to take soccer a long ass time to catch up to baseball.
It was a rite of passage for every little boy to play rec baseball growing up. I still see little kids in their uniforms. Soccer rec leagues are few and far between here in Atlanta, and most of the times they are in wealthy, majority white areas.
this is a got damn lie.
plenty of young folks of all races love baseball.
bout to watch the Braves as I type
This was in the US breh!
His first game in America! La Galaxy vs LAFC (new club)
Your team is down 0-3 and you come in and score 2 goals on your debut game?
What a feeling that must be
I don't watch the sport breh ...but everytime I do some insane sh!t happens
Which is why when avid fans hear me list my top players I instantly get the
Michael Owen
Luis Figo
Luis Suarez
El Hadji Diouf
I can't f*cking stand Harry Kane though
Finna watch the world cup this year though
i got a Hawks avy but baseball my favorite sport. My little cousin play HS baseball in Clay Co and he been playing since he was like 7. I go to a few of his games and his team is all black and all the teams he play against are all black. Every time I go to his house him and his friends are playing MLB The Show. Its going to take soccer a long ass time to catch up to baseball.
It was a rite of passage for every little boy to play rec baseball growing up. I still see little kids in their uniforms. Soccer rec leagues are few and far between here in Atlanta, and most of the times they are in wealthy, majority white areas.
this is a got damn lie.
plenty of young folks of all races love baseball.
bout to watch the Braves as I type
Redan high on the eastside is predominately black and has been (or was) a baseball powerhouse for years.
A team-by-team list of African-American MLB playersi got a Hawks avy but baseball my favorite sport. My little cousin play HS baseball in Clay Co and he been playing since he was like 7. I go to a few of his games and his team is all black and all the teams he play against are all black. Every time I go to his house him and his friends are playing MLB The Show. Its going to take soccer a long ass time to catch up to baseball.
It was a rite of passage for every little boy to play rec baseball growing up. I still see little kids in their uniforms. Soccer rec leagues are few and far between here in Atlanta, and most of the times they are in wealthy, majority white areas.
this is a got damn lie.
plenty of young folks of all races love baseball.
bout to watch the Braves as I type
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/op-e...rcentage-of-black-baseball-players-in-the-mlb
http://sportspath.typepad.com/files/soccer-popularity-continues-to-climb.pdf
9 Reasons It's Hard to Be a Baseball Fan Today
baseball is declining and its been declining, especially among black people. football>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. basketball>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
i personally don't know any black people that care about baseball around my age.
staticshock
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Miller Grove and Lithonia are the best teams over there now..and Langston Huges on the southside is ranked in the top 10 in the state..plenty of brehs love and still play baseball. Im guessing its cause of the Braves and the success they have had
A team-by-team list of African-American MLB players
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/op-e...rcentage-of-black-baseball-players-in-the-mlb
http://sportspath.typepad.com/files/soccer-popularity-continues-to-climb.pdf
9 Reasons It's Hard to Be a Baseball Fan Today
baseball is declining and its been declining, especially among black people. football>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. basketball>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
i personally don't know any black people that care about baseball around my age.
where do you stay? everyone I knows fukks with baseball.
i just moved to the DC area. i only ever see whites wearing Nationals gear and going to their games. in NJ only white people and Dominicans/Ricans/Mexicans/some South Americans play it.
I assume Miller Grove probably ate into Redans pool of talent, because it didn't exist until what 06 or something? Or there could have been some redistricting (or recruiting) going on because Lithonia high used to be trash at everything.
It was like that even before the Braves got good I think. Rec league sports and later HS sports are huge in Atlanta. Weather is good 10 mos out the year so you can have the kids in Football/soccer in the fall, b-ball in the winter and track or baseball in the spring and sports camp in the summer. I think it just gets lost how big home grown talent is in sports because our pro teams are so trash. I knew a couple of brehs who took baseball very seriously growing up too. Not at white schools either. Doug High, NAH type cats. And you already mentioned them powerhouses over east like Redan and Miller Grove
Club teams always were on some OTHER shyt where I was from. Those boys were banking.
we're talking camps, gear, all the top notch kits, etc.
All the clubs I knew of were damn near private golf club status.
It was some elite shyt.
they're gonna have to because its the only sport that the US can't compete internationally
Bosnias? From the 90s? Thats interesting....