Why soccer may finally become one of America's favorite sports

CBS Mornings 2026 World Cup annoucement is like "rocket fuel" for soccer's popularity in America .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-cbs-mornings.jpg'); } June 13, 2018 / 1:39 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Just one day before the 2018 World Cup kicks off in Russia without a U.S. team in play, American soccer fans still had a reason to rejoice. FIFA, world soccer's governing body, announced Wednesday morning that a combined bid from the U.S., Canada and Mexico had won the hosting rights for the 2026 World Cup. For TV host, podcaster and one-half of the soccer-obsessed "Men In Blazers," Roger Bennett, the news means soccer may finally become of America's favorite sports. He could not be happier about it.2018 FIFA World Cup: How to watch every team, every game"Think of the World Cup like a giant bar mitzvah which is soccer-themed, to which the whole world is invited and it's coming to these shores. We had it last in 1994 when soccer was like space for Captain Kirk – a final frontier of the game of soccer," Bennett told "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday. "The 2026 World Cup will cement soccer up there with the NBA probably in eight years' time as America's favorite sport." Bennett co-wrote the new book "Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's 'Sport of the Future' Since 1972" and hosts the podcast "American Fiasco," which traces the rise and fall of the U.S. national team in the 1990s. It currently sits at No.1 on Apple's sports podcast chart."A huge amount of money pours into the sport which allows U.S. Soccer to transform itself at every level from the youth level to the coaching to the U.S. men's national team…The amount of money that's coming in will be utterly game-changing, it will be like rocket fuel," Bennett said.  The British-born Bennett, who says he loves soccer as much as he does America, offered a preview of what to watch out for during this year's mont...