I had never actually heard of this Nashville team until a few years ago. There’s a marketing aspect to this, of course, but it misses the fact that 2021 marks 40 years since the formation of Nashville’s actual first professional soccer club, the Nashville Diamonds, a team that played in a league that itself lasted more than half a century. Looking at it more locally, Nashville’s own local MLS club barely acknowledges its own history before MLS took off. We cannot always depend on teams and leagues that don’t have the history to tell the stories of those that came before them. It’s not entirely untrue, as everyone knows that the popularity took ages to actually get going, but it misses a broader point, which is that the United States has been playing this game as long as most countries on this planet. Essentially, people act like it’s this new sport that really only gained traction in the last 15-20 years. There is a common misperception about this country and soccer. And the end result of all of this is that I get asked that title question an awful lot. This website has been a much larger undertaking than initially conceived, and in between Nashville Soccer Club, Nashville Rhythm FC, and of course, my day-to-day job and union duties, I’ve mostly focused on the research aspects of this more than the story-telling side of things. As many folks can attest, including the listeners of 102.5 The Game’s Pharmaceutical Soccer, I almost always have something to say. I don’t write here an awful lot, not because I don’t have a lot to say.
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