Sebastian Giovinco Quotes

When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don't believe we'll ever get to where we want to be.

The MLS is a fantastic competition, and it is growing all the time.

It's no secret that I think that MLS is a top five, top six league in the world but they're not the top league.

My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.

The Premier League is probably the best in the world so if you have a lot of players who play well there, it's normal that they are going to grow as players.

We want the N.W.S.L. to grow. It is growing; it's continuously growing every year. We want it to be sustainable. It's separate in the sense that this is a U.S. Soccer thing, but the idea is to grow soccer in general, and we want to do that any way we can.

I remember when I was in college, my junior year NWSL was not a thing and my senior year, it started up and I had a place to play now. It's really great that it's been able to be stable for these last seven years and we can always continue to push for more growth.

You can't obviously predict the future, but I am a fan of the United States and soccer over there continues to grow.

You're seeing more players come back to MLS in their prime and the homegrown talent coming up that's of high quality. I think that game's always continuing to grow, and I'm happy to be part of that growth and come back to the league.

I'll watch an MLS game if it's on.

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.

I love Major League Soccer, covered the first game in 1996 in a funky stadium in San Jose, and I applaud just about every move that its commissioners, Garber and Doug Logan, have made.

The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow.

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.

I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.

Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players.

San Antonio is an ideal market for Major League Soccer. It's time that we put our best foot forward.

I think - I hope - that we're going to be able to build something here with U.S. Soccer, where it's not just going to be about one lost match or one lost cycle or one lost team. It's going to be about an entire country rallying around an entire sport in a way that lasts.

One day, I hope I can play in MLS.

The Premier League? Of course I like it. It's the most beautiful league in the world, and I'd like to play in it.

A move to MLS - you never know. New York or Los Angeles, you never know.

There's no other club where I'll be able to work with better players than at Barca.