Soccer has never been as big a sport in the United States as let's say football, basketball or baseball. What keeps it alive here is the steady flow of immigrants, who import their passion for what the rest of the world refers to as "football". Only Americans refer to the sport under a different name, soccer.
Chicago's National Soccer League is a sports haven for new immigrants. The NSL is a competitive men's soccer league formed in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1919, making it one of the oldest soccer leagues in America.The league's teams serve as an outlet for both athletics and national pride. That's evident in the club names like FC Macedonia and Assyrian Blue.
But the flow of immigrants to fuel a team's roster often slows depending on what's happening in the mother land. As Croatia's economy has improved, the tide of new Croatian players stepping off the plane and heading to the fields has ebbed. That means the roster of the Croatian based RWB Adria now includes Lithuanian and Venezuelan players.
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