World Cup
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Big game tonight! I was thinking of supporting USA in solidarity with my new friends on Mango Lassi, but if you lot aren't really that fussed I might not bother. The trouble with USA becoming too good at football is that the next thing you know we'll have ad-breaks every ten minutes and clubs will become franchises
It should be a cracking game.
Americans do not, as a rule, care about football. It's not a sport here. And the US dislikes global games that's why we make up local games so we can just play against ourselves.
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Currently rooting for Switzerland and Germany now that Italia is out.
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@scottalanmiller i beg to differ sir. With the world cup going on ESPN servers crashed due to the influx of online stream requests last Thursday. Soccer (football) is getting more and more popular. Do you see the coverage of the viewing parties where they shut down streets and it is jam packed? I think your comment was very short sided since the US does in fact care about global games.
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Officially, USA is the second best supported team in the World Cup after Brazil. That's based on ticket sales by nationality. However, many of those US nationals may actually be supporting other teams like Mexico.
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Rooting for Netherlands here.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Officially, USA is the second best supported team in the World Cup after Brazil. That's based on ticket sales by nationality. However, many of those US nationals may actually be supporting other teams like Mexico.
Mostly expats living in the US. And I'm American supporting Italy like many. Also unfair as the US is enormous compared to say The Netherlands. And Brasil is a major travel destination from here too.
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@david.wiese said:
@scottalanmiller i beg to differ sir. With the world cup going on ESPN servers crashed due to the influx of online stream requests last Thursday. Soccer (football) is getting more and more popular. Do you see the coverage of the viewing parties where they shut down streets and it is jam packed? I think your comment was very short sided since the US does in fact care about global games.
Americans will watch anything in ESPN. What I've seen is it is all foreigners living here, not American citizens.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@david.wiese said:
@scottalanmiller i beg to differ sir. With the world cup going on ESPN servers crashed due to the influx of online stream requests last Thursday. Soccer (football) is getting more and more popular. Do you see the coverage of the viewing parties where they shut down streets and it is jam packed? I think your comment was very short sided since the US does in fact care about global games.
Americans will watch anything in ESPN. What I've seen is it is all foreigners living here, not American citizens.
Once again i beg to differ. I'm american, my friends, my brother is, it doesn't matter we are all watching the US play in the world cup. Hell I was at buffalo wild wings last thursday to watch the game and it was packed to the point where they had to turn people away. While I fully understand this is your opinion that no one watches, but please don't speak for everyone on this. Why else would tens of thousands of people pack public parks to watch the games? Why are they opening Soldier Field for free so people can watch the game? Because people want to watch the game. From http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/World-Cup-Viewing-Party-Set-for-Soldier-Field-265129101.html. "Officials estimated that roughly 20,000 fans gathered to watch the Grant Park viewing parties. Soldier Field can hold about 62,000 fans." Those 20,000 people cannot be just comprised of foreigners. So please don't speak for everyone and say the americans don't watch soccer because you are dead wrong.
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Is soccer (sic) popular everywhere in the US, or are there certain cities where it's massive and others where it is dead?
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@Carnival-Boy from what i have seen/read there are public viewing parties throughout the nation. Now I'm not sure if every major metro area has viewing parties but I know there are many that do.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/worldcup/2014/news/article/2014/06/30/world-cup-viewing-parties-all-across-america-belgium-usa-clash -
You are welcome to your opinoin @scottalanmiller but there is a reason that there are soccer fields all over the country. It is not because of foreigners.
It is certainly true that soccer is not a popular sport in the media outside of the world cup. But then again I do not care about what the "media" has to say anyway.
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I think the Americans who think America is into football need to visit other countries. At best I think the scale of what constitutes being into football differs greatly. Watching the World Cup because it is trendy versus being into football are very different things.
I don't know what you guys are seeing but I've seen nothing to suggest that US interest in the World Cup is even up to the level of "everyday" football interest in most of the world.
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US interest in football is definitely increasing. But it still can't be compared to the interest in Europe or Latam. Nor compared to American football, baseball or basketball. Or even hockey.
Are you guys really seeing lots of Americans actually interested in this? I'm seeing none and I live in a major metro. I see tons of people talking about it but literally four out of five aren't citizens here and are just excited about their home country's status.
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@scottalanmiller i have been to London and was even at wembley stadium for a match. While yes it is quite a bit more popular there, here pro soccer is relatively new. It is still gathering strength in terms of viewers and popularity. But there are soccer camps, leagues, and so on going on all over the country so no this is not a trend. Like i have already stated just because you aren't seeing it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. I have provided multiple examples to disprove your posts and reasoning. Soccer is gaining strength in the US and will continue to do so.
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I'm in a class and the guy next to me starts talking football....
And he's Austrian.
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@david.wiese said:
@scottalanmiller i have been to London and was even at wembley stadium for a match. While yes it is quite a bit more popular there, here pro soccer is relatively new. It is still gathering strength in terms of viewers and popularity. But there are soccer camps, leagues, and so on going on all over the country so no this is not a trend. Like i have already stated just because you aren't seeing it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. I have provided multiple examples to disprove your posts and reasoning. Soccer is gaining strength in the US and will continue to do so.
Oh it's growing, no doubt. It's trendy now. But pro soccer is more than twenty years old now. New but not super new. Enough time to be pretty established. For a sport so globally important.
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Here in the NYC metro I see cricket get a similar level of attention.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Here in the NYC metro I see cricket get a similar level of attention.
If you are interested in cricket in New York, I thoroughly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Netherland-Vintage-Contemporaries-Joseph-ONeill/dp/0307388778. I'm not and still loved the book.
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