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In Reply to: I know it's "only" soccer… but anyone here wildly excited about the Brazil-hosted World Cup beginning in six posted by tinear on April 16, 2014 at 15:27:50:
I don't know about "wildly excited" but I will watch what games I can which will be few due to the fact that I don't have cable TV at home.
I'm betting that the majority of nay-sayers have never played the game.
Beats watching NASCAR go round and round in circles. Golf? Hit a ball, walk, hit a ball walk... NBA? Lots of scoring, but nothing really happens until the 4th quarter, then the last 5 minutes takes half an hour. Baseball's been mentioned (a lot of scratching and spitting and adjusting of batting gloves). But everyone raves about a 1-0 game that goes 15 innings and lasts nearly 4 hours. Men's tennis is serve-return...serve-return (much like what men's volleyball has become.)
The US has not been successful in international soccer partly (IMO) because players have grown up with the "Super Bowl", "Stanley Cup", "World Series" mentality, wherein the league championship is the be-all and end-all of their professional aspirations. Here the World Cup is considered to interrupt the MLS season every four year. For players elsewhere around the world, club soccer is what fills the time between World Cups.
Things are changing. More National team caliber players are staying home to play in the states (MLS) and more players who went overseas to increase their chances are coming back to the US. MLS is expanding. The league announced today that Atlanta will be awarded the next franchise. Many foreign teams and leagues (South America and parts of Europe) are in a mess and top players may be looking to the US as an option. MLS teams are developing youth academies to develop young players rather than rely on the colleges to act as their minor league. I haven't looked, but I think right now the 76ers would be glad to have the average attendance that the Union draw just a few miles down the road.
Neil
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Follow Ups
- Yes - Neil E. 21:13:43 04/16/14 (2)
- The World Series. Man, what jingoism! Does the world begin and end here? The World Cup, otoh, - tinear 21:21:07 04/16/14 (1)
- I may force myself to watch one or two other teams than the USA and Ecuador - Road Warrior 22:00:07 04/16/14 (0)
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