Originally posted by 2501
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However if you asked an average american who won it they wouldnt be able to tell ya. You know who 1/4 fills soccer stadiums in America? Boat people, Euro transplants and collegiate geeks who cant make the football or basketball team.
ok...let me school you a little bit on soccer in the USA. Soccer has been tried..and tried...and tried again...indoor soccer..big leagues..small leagues...There was this boom in the 1970's that was supposed to produce this great big new generation of soccer fans in America...Everybody was on this soccer bandwagon...Youth soccer exploded, the creation of the NASL..which subsequently folded for two reasons...ya know what those were????
They were paying their talent (Pele, Wim Jansen, Brian Kidd, Rudi Krol) that was washed up and too old, too much and they had no fan base...sound familiar?? eg. David Beckham..washed up midfielder they are paying 100+ million dollars...I have my own theories about its failure here but I prefer the tried and true..it ****in sucks and its for people in refugee camps and Europeans.
As for this MYTH...that soccer is Growing in America...let us revert back to the numbers...cause those mother****ers dont lie
MLS REGULAR-SEASON ATTENDANCE AVERAGE
1996: 17,406
1997: 14,619
1998: 14,312
1999: 14,282
2000: 13,756
2001: 14,961
2002: 15,822
2003: 14,898
2004: 15,559
2005: 15,108
2006: 15,504
2007: 16,770
Now...Americans dont...wont...never have and never will like soccer.
Sorry..soccer sucks and America knows it.
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