US soccer team

[kathpatty]

uchiha615

US + Soccer = ZZZZzzzzzz.....

agreed

[Goldknight]

uchiha615
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US + Soccer = ZZZZzzzzzz.....

agreed

OMFG I think I just snorted. Amen to that! I miss my real football! GO BRONCOS!

Seriously though I'm happy for the US soccer team, but honestly I think the majority of this country couldn't care less. It just isn't a popular sport here. Maybe if the US wins then it'll help it's popularity in this country. Then again that's what they said about the Galaxy acquiring the overpaid/underachieving David Beckham. So who knows. I don't see it getting too exciting here.

GO BRONCOS!!!!

[Captain Haddock]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and ... 422361.stm

According to this article you could be wrong Goldknight. Sigh I hope it doesn't catch on over on your side of the pond, man it's the last bastion for those disinterested in it.

[kathpatty]

Goldknight

Seriously though I'm happy for the US soccer team, but honestly I think the majority of this country couldn't care less. It just isn't a popular sport here. Maybe if the US wins then it'll help it's popularity in this country. Then again that's what they said about the Galaxy acquiring the overpaid/underachieving David Beckham. So who knows. I don't see it getting too exciting here.

GO BILLS !!

[Goldknight]

Cough cough.... I rest my case:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/sports- ... ner.Kicks/

[iceman57]

Seriously though I'm happy for the US soccer team, but honestly I think the majority of this country couldn't care less. It just isn't a popular sport here. Maybe if the US wins then it'll help it's popularity in this country. Then again that's what they said about the Galaxy acquiring the overpaid/underachieving David Beckham. So who knows. I don't see it getting too exciting here.

See what happened with Cycling and Lance Armstrong, he won several times and now American citizen are watching and appreciating cycling. Consequently, I strongly think that if a US team reach 1/4 finals or 1/2 finals, soccer will be growing in the US. 2014 will be interesting... Just need a team or a guy to open a breach and make soccer flood over the US.

[Captain Haddock]

I concur with that Iceman, though I also think it will develop into a regional thing. Having been in Miami when Brazil won in 2002 that was a pretty big deal there. Man I paid a $10 dollar entry fee to a bar and then it was basically free drinks all night.

Of course Goldknight in some ways your right and alot of Americans in my experiance are either indifferent or just like yourself, find it plain boring. And It will always be a second fiddle there to American Football, Basketball etc, though I do think it will get a higher status then it has now.

Remember I'm not a football fan nor sports fan in general (never got the bug even as a child), Aikido was my thing until I packed it in this year.

[teggacat]

Seriously though I'm happy for the US soccer team, but honestly I think the majority of this country couldn't care less. It just isn't a popular sport here. Maybe if the US wins then it'll help it's popularity in this country. Then again that's what they said about the Galaxy acquiring the overpaid/underachieving David Beckham. So who knows. I don't see it getting too exciting here.

See what happened with Cycling and Lance Armstrong, he won several times and now American citizen are watching and appreciating cycling. Consequently, I strongly think that if a US team reach 1/4 finals or 1/2 finals, soccer will be growing in the US. 2014 will be interesting... Just need a team or a guy to open a breach and make soccer flood over the US.

cycling has been very popular for a long time here in the states, nothing much to do with Armstrong. Every time I go out in my car I would love to take a few of them down, with the way they think they own the road, they're all over ...personally I couldnt care less about either cycling or soccer, or sports in general, all I know is I work in a small machine shop with mostly guys, and NEVER have I EVER heard them talk soccer, just good 'ole American Football. Iceman, take some advice from your name and chill, you don't need to try and be an authority on everything, it really does get quite tiresome over and over and over......

[cutiebunny]

See what happened with Cycling and Lance Armstrong, he won several times and now American citizen are watching and appreciating cycling.

Not really. None of the men I work with talk about cycling. Nor do they talk about tennis. The talk here revolves around American football - who's playing who, who's picking who and Fantasy football statistics.

As for yesterday's game, I fail to see why Ghana's team was not red carded on several ocassions. I'm sorry, but smacking the bottom of your cleet into someone's back is totally inappropriate.

Good luck to Honduras(?) who will be playing them next.

[zerospace]

Not really. None of the men I work with talk about cycling. Nor do they talk about tennis. The talk here revolves around American football - who's playing who, who's picking who and Fantasy football statistics.

Agreed. I don't know anyone who really honestly cares about/follows cycling or soccer. My hubby knows a bit about soccer, but he doesn't care enough to watch it with any regularity. The only talk I ever really hear is about American football, basketball, and sometimes baseball. The NFL makes up the majority of the stuff I hear, with the NBA in a close 2nd.

Somehow I really doubt anything will top the NFL in popularity here in the states for a very long time.



(personally, I would much rather watch baseball, but if I gotta watch football... go 49ers!)

[iceman57]

Iceman, take some advice from your name and chill, you don't need to try and be an authority on everything, it really does get quite tiresome over and over and over......

Not at all, I don't think I act as a "guru" and note that average age of board member (40% from 25 to 29) is mature enough to filter comments and define own opinions.

Coming back on sports, Cycling TV broadcast exploded with Armstrong, and who was watching, not Europe as the market reached its maximum and they were doping affairs, American people were watching American team mastering the game (and they did for years). This is just a matter of scales due to population, note that for Europe a "good broadcast" is something like 8-10 millions people watching a sport, while Superbowl is 100 millions. So if soccer reach even 10% of Football popularity that'd definitively be a very good deal, as wrote up just a matter of targeted scale.
What is interesting to see is not that this sport or any other substitute NFL nor MLB, no way ! Just make other sports "existing" in a major country (by existing I mean broadcasted and told about in the headlines). Even my great uncle in NJ told me about Armstrong when he won, did he told about cycling before, well definitively never... A sport simply requires major players to raise the flag of a country to create an emulation in this country and make this new game existing. I strongly believe that USA will continue to impress in the soccer Worldcup, especially in 2014. I'm not fan at all of this sport due to the low scores (prefer several times Basketball or Rugby) but a World match with friends, fresh Heineken and nachos is certaily a good way of life to entertain and discover this sport in the US. There are historical sports in every country that can't be substituted, indeed, but there is always a place on over 500 TV channels to discover new sports, some people like, some people dislike, and see appearing generations playing it.

[yoshito]

Iceman, although your energetic enthusiasm for Football gaining popularity in the USA could be applauded, sadly enough your theory has been proven a failure in the USA. Soccer, I use this name since that is what we know it by here, already had its "Lance Armstrong" in the USA and Soccer World.

Pelé

You can say that name and if you ever played Soccer in the States you know of it. He is credited as being the person who brought Soccer to the attention of the masses.

But as you can see... about 35 years later Soccer unfortunately is just a sport that Americans play when they are children and forget it exists. Only every 4 years is it brought to their attention thanks to the World Cup.

I love Soccer, and played it through High School. But unfortunately it will never be a huge sport here.

[ReiTheJelly]

Soccer unfortunately is just a sport that Americans play when they are children and forget it exists.

Precisely. The major televised sports in America are:

(1) American football (collegiate and professional)

(2) Basketball (professional)

(3) Ice Hockey (professional)

(4) Baseball (professional)


Past these four, most other sports get minimal coverage. Just because cable television offers a Golf Channel doesn't mean that many people under the age of 50 watch it. And the only wheeled vehicle people around me want to watch on TV isn't a bicycle. NASCAR is very big here.


I'll admit that one of my friends plays soccer professionally here in the US. I'll also admit that I've been to zero of his matches.

[iceman57]

Iceman, although your energetic enthusiasm for Football gaining popularity in the USA could be applauded, sadly enough your theory has been proven a failure in the USA. Soccer, I use this name since that is what we know it by here, already had its "Lance Armstrong" in the USA and Soccer World.

Pelé

Indeed, but what I meant was a US citizen to win in a sport, which will increase this sport popularity in the US. Like a US flag carrier over the world.

Pelé

Part of one of my favorite sport movie :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_to_Victory

Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbALYBSFlXY

But unfortunately it will never be a huge sport here.

Of course, just imagine that with a tenth or a fifth of the football popularity, that'll be enough.

[teggacat]

iceman, trying to talk to you is like, well