The Leaderboard

Posted on June 28, 2010

What a week for Go USA Bid!

While, US Soccer's week was bittersweet, it has translated into extraordinary growth in support for the USA Bid for the World Cup. In the past ten days, we have added 250,000 supporters to the bid — and we're closing in on 750,000 voices saying "The Game is in US."

To put that in perspective, we started the World Cup with about 400,000 supporters and challenged you to help us grow support to half a million by the end of the World Cup. You blew by that number so quickly that we will be closer to a million than to a half a million by the next bid-city leaderboard.

With that many new supporters, it should not be a surprise that there has been some significant movement on this week's bid-city leaderboard.

For the first time since May 20, we have a new leader! Congratulations, Miami for taking first place away from Houston. Miami grew their support 185 percent to jump from third place to first.

Miami wasn't the only city to move up the list and add significant support:

Los Angeles grew their support 240 percent to move from 11th place to 3rd;
New York-New Jersey grew their support 201 percent to move from 7th place to 4th; and,
Washington DC grew their support 145 percent to move from 12th place to 8th.

Just like last week, all eighteen cities made huge strides in building their support. Our nationwide movement is stronger than ever!

Our work certainly isn't done — if you've enjoyed this World Cup as much as we have tell your friends to sign the petition and support your favorite city.

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Rank	City	Supporters
1	Miami	58,454
2	Houston	49,858
3	Los Angeles	46,905
4	New York - New Jersey	44,787
5	Seattle	34,035
6	Atlanta	33,383
7	Tampa Bay	31,830
8	Washington DC	28,450
9	Philadelphia	28,351
10	Baltimore	27,350
11	Indianapolis	22,188
12	Dallas	21,665
13	Kansas City	21,509
14	Boston	19,566
15	Denver	16,421
16	San Diego	15,941
17	Nashville	14,057
18	Phoenix - Glendale	10,797