Peter Wilt on American soccer’s next big markets




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Summary: Click here to take this week’s Dummy poll: http://fifa.wtf/2dTD4R1 In the past couple of years, we’ve seen some pretty surprising cities markets explode in frenzy of soccer love: Kansas City, Sacramento, and now Cincinnati, where more than 30,000 people showed up earlier this month for a USL playoff game. Today on Dummy, Peter Wilt looks at the demographic data and predicts what’s next. The answers may surprise you. (Omaha? Seriously?)  Peter’s story for Howler: http://fifa.wtf/2dTCZfQ Over the past 30 years, Peter has launched and run several professional soccer clubs, including the Chicago Fire and Indy Eleven, and he’s known just as much for paying careful attention to the communities where he’s building loyalty and support as he is for creating winning teams—though he has done that too, most notably in Chicago with Bob Bradley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices