"Ask What You Can Brew For Your Country"

My fellow American soccer fans....

There comes a time in every soccer fan's life when they must ask him or herself, "Have I done enough to further the sport in my country?" For millions if not billions of people around the world the answer is a resounding "yes" and the task is done. Soccer has established itself as a cultural bulwark and the passion of a people in dozens of countries.

Soccer has circled the globe and landed on the noble shores of the United States and the sport is now asking its fans here this question.

The question is not if you are sufficiently passionate about your club team or national team. The question is not whether you have traveled the country or the world to support them. The question is upon us all to go even further in our commitment to American soccer where open up our hearts and wallets to treat a soccer newbie to a free beer.

There are millions of us, American soccer fans, but there are millions more of them, non-soccer fans, in the wilderness, waiting to be brought into the fold. The Euro-fan, the one who comes around only during the World Cup, the casual sports fan, the soccer novice... all ripe for conversation and conversion. It starts with one beer.

It was once said that America couldn't land a man on the moon, but the man above made us dream about that prospect and set in motion the pieces that made Neil Armstrong's moment possible. It was also been said that soccer has no place in the United States; that it is a sport played by children and foreigners.

Our country and its people must know that WE ARE AN AMERICAN SOCCER NATION. We are not here to displace baseball and apple pie, football and hamburgers, or basketball and popcorn... we are here to join in the great American spectacle of professional sports.

American soccer has given so much to us. The highs and lows of being a fan of both club and country. For many it has given purpose to our lives where before we wandered lost. We now have a fledging domestic league where less than two decades ago we had nothing. We've hosted the World Cup, we've tasted glory with our women's national teams, and pushed our men's team up against the world's best time and time again.

It is time that our sport ask a little more of us and we ask more of ourselves. "Ask not what your American soccer can do for you, but ask what you can brew for your country."

Grab a friend, a family member, a co-worker and bring them to the next match at the local stadium. Invite them to your local watering hole where the national team is on, or simply have them over to your house to entertain them with the world's game. Most importantly, treat them to a beer and an educational experience.

We've spent our hard earned dollars on season tickets, jerseys, and foam fingers to show our love of this sport and so we certainly can spend just a few more on a cold beer for a few curious individuals wondering what is soccer in America.

It's the Free Beer Movement way and it's the way we can "Build American Soccer One Beer at a Time".

Thank you and God bless American soccer.

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The Movement: What YOU Can Do

"Ask not what the Free Beer Movement can do for you, but what you can do for the Free Beer Movement." - President John F. Kennedy, 1960

We're pretty sure the quote went something like that, although we may have mixed up a word or two. Either way the essence of the quote is intact.... yeah.

The Free Beer Movement site exist as a promoter of the idea that free beer can help increase the profile of American soccer. It also exists as a documenter of the culture of American soccer.

What we need from you, faithful supporters and members of the FBM, is to take the idea of the Movement and practice what we preach.

We would love to buy every person who has not been exposed to the beauty of the American game a nice cold beer, but there's not enough money in the FBM coffers to do such a thing.

It it incumbent upon our followers to expose American soccer to the under-exposed. It has to come from your love of the game and it has to come from your pocketbook.

I'm sure you're asking, "What kind of half-ass deal is this?"

The kind where you do exactly what you've already been doing (going to games, talking other peoples' ears off about the sport, and drinking beer), but now doing it all at once.

The Free Beer Movement is not asking you to fund a 50 person party with free beer before the next US international or MLS weekend match, we are asking you to invite at least one more person that usual to the next game (on TV or at the stadium), buy them a beer or two or three or more if the generous mood suits you (tell them sorry, but the ticket is on them), and show off our sport.

Finally, when you've done so... tell us. We want to hear your successes and failures. We want to see your pictures from the games. We want to know which beers you toasted with the new guy (or girl) as another barrier of soccer ignorance is broken down.

Loving soccer is really easy. We've got a million and one reasons why we support the sport. What is more difficult is passing that passion onto another and selling it to them.

That's why we and the idea of free beer is here.

Share your passion. Tell us your stories.