After more than a year of uncertainty and criticism, the Club World Cup kicked off in Miami on Saturday and soccer may never be the same. At least that's what FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been telling anyone who would listen.

When the ball gets kicked off the center circle of Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, the United States will go down in history as the first host of the most important soccer tournament created this century.

From L.A.’s first 1951 soccer team, to the birthplace of U.S. youth soccer, to Chicharito’s arrival, L.A.’s soccer DNA runs deep.