Britain Football Soccer - Blackburn Rovers v Manchester United - FA Cup Fifth Round - Ewood Park - 19/2/17 Manchester United's Bastian Schweinsteiger before the match Reuters / Phil Noble Livepic
CHICAGO (Reuters) - For all the talk of how the United States has embraced soccer, it became clear there is still some way to go to complete the conversion after newly arrived Bastian Schweinsteiger was asked if he thought his club, Chicago Fire, could win the World Cup.
Chicago is a huge sports city, boasting fanatical followers of ice hockey, American football, basketball and baseball. Last year, 60,000 even turned out to watch Ireland shock New Zealand in a rugby union test. But not everybody has quite bought into the "other football".
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