Today marks the 30th anniversary of Argentina’s victory over England in World Cup play, a victory assisted in part by Argentinian superstar Diego Madonna’s celebrated “Hand of God” goal.

These two maps show the number of US high schools with soccer programs by state  and the number of participants in those programs during the 2014-2015 completion season. Using FactLook.com, we chose the “State” template and created our first dataset (# of Schools). We added a second dataset for the number of players.  Click to view larger.

 

 

Data Source: THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF STATE HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONS, http://www.nfhs.org/ParticipationStatics/PDF/

Download: 2014-15 HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS PARTICIPATION SURVEY (.xlsx)