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So all you want is to have the last word to prove your point of view is the right one?
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Not bothered, my points stand up for themselves comfortably, despite having been challenged on a virtually endless basis.
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Have you actually seen them play at this World Cup?
I absolutely cannot stand US football teams and I was certain this year would be no different, but the difference in the quality of football, the team play, the managerial tactics was night and day in comparison to US teams of the past. Usually, they play kick and rush football, whereas this time round they actually looked like a proper football teams with a game plan and skills to match. |
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The more I think of it, I wonder why we wonder the USA reaction?
It is the fifth team sport in the States. I would rank it as American Football Baseball Basketball (but could alter with Baseball) Ice Hockey Soccer Thinking of a Europea\n/American what do they see in the UK? Soccer Cricket Rugby Union Rugby League why are we not doing Ice Hockey or Basketball? sure it is nice to think The Yanks don;t get Soccer, but are us Brits as bad? |
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The more I think of it, I wonder why we wonder the USA reaction?
It is the fifth team sport in the States. I would rank it as American Football Baseball Basketball (but could alter with Baseball) Ice Hockey Soccer Thinking of a Europea\n/American what do they see in the UK? Soccer Cricket Rugby Union Rugby League why are we not doing Ice Hockey or Basketball? sure it is nice to think The Yanks don;t get Soccer, but are us Brits as bad? We do have Basketball. Hear about it a lot on the local news. |
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The more I think of it, I wonder why we wonder the USA reaction?
It is the fifth team sport in the States. I would rank it as American Football Baseball Basketball (but could alter with Baseball) Ice Hockey Soccer Thinking of a Europea\n/American what do they see in the UK? Soccer Cricket Rugby Union Rugby League why are we not doing Ice Hockey or Basketball? sure it is nice to think The Yanks don;t get Soccer, but are us Brits as bad? |
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A very obvious answer would be that ice hockey and basketball are not British sports and did not originate in the UK : basketball started out in the USA and ice hockey in Canada.
Neither does your theory explain why baseball was very popular here before WWII stopped it in its tracks. Games attracted crowds of as much as 10'000 - Derby's old ground was known as THe Baseball Ground for that reason. In fact we actually beat the US to win the first Baseball World Cup in 1938. |
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Not sure about Ice Hockey. Maybe we don't have the facilities.
We do have Basketball. Hear about it a lot on the local news. |
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Ice Hockey is played here, they feature it on the local news where I live.
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Anyone know what the US public interest in the World Cup is like now that USA are out? Are they still watching in large numbers (or even broadcasting) the rest of the tournament?
Because that would be a better test of the USA's interest in "soccer" as a sport IMO, rather than American's just having a patriotic interest in their own national side. |
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Anyone know what the US public interest in the World Cup is like now that USA are out? Are they still watching in large numbers (or even broadcasting) the rest of the tournament?
Because that would be a better test of the USA's interest in "soccer" as a sport IMO, rather than American's just having a patriotic interest in their own national side. All the games are being shown live on ESPN and the main network channel ABC are showing some matches live too. |
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Yes, the ratings are holding up pretty well. Brazil vs Colombia had an audience of around 12m between ESPN and Spanish language TV, which is not 'too' far behind what the US games were attracting (around 20m).
All the games are being shown live on ESPN and the main network channel ABC are showing some matches live too. If soccer was really taking off in USA like some people make out surely they'd broadcast it on the major networks like NBC etc? Edit - sorry just read that you said that ABC is broadcasting some matches. Last edited by johnF1971 : 07-07-2014 at 14:32. Reason: Didn't read post properly! |
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The fact that its only shown on ESPN and Spanish Language TV implies that its still only considered something of a minority interest though doesn't it?
If soccer was really taking off in USA like some people make out surely they'd broadcast it on the major networks like NBC etc? Edit - sorry just read that you said that ABC is broadcasting some matches. It's not at all comparable to Sky Sports vs ITV and BBC in the UK.....the World Cup has definitely been one of the sporting events of the year on TV in America. |
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Found this on another forum: Quote:
Yeah, but you have to pay the folks to run the leagues, organize the teams, pay the refs, rent the field, buy the goal nets... heck, even pay the coaches. It doesn't come free, you know. And outside of (maybe) a few overpaid administrators for the biggest clubs, nobody is getting seriously rich and buying yachts out of all this. Still a long way to go....
As @ebbro pointed out, someone has to pay. Elsewhere, it's the clubs. Here in the US, they don't even pay many players that much, much less have lots of money left over to fund programs for youth players. Others have also pointed out coaching is key. I recall an article (rats... can't find it) stating that in 2004? 06? when the DFB set about remaking their program, that they spent money to train and deploy literally thousands of coaches across the country. When is USSF going to pay for my A license course, eh? I've spent a lot of my own coin getting a coaching education. |
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An article on the subject from the BBC
Fad or forever smitten: Has the US finally fallen in love with soccer? |
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The USA have been playing decent football for quite some time at previous World Cups, I guess this is the first World Cup you have seen.
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Err... no. Kick and rush (very fast) is not good football. They never looked like an actual well-organised football team with tactics and quality players.
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I got the impression it was a bit of a Nasri decision. "He's a great player but I don't see him as in my first XI and I'm not sure if he'll take well to being on the bench, so I'll just leave him behind." I think Deschamps said as much in an interview and I guess Klinsmann had similar reasons.
Not sure if I agree with it but I can see their point of view. It's perhaps much easier to have an enthusiastic kid as back up than someone sulking thinking they should be first choice. Maybe it makes for a better environment for everyone. |
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I got the impression it was a bit of a Nasri decision. "He's a great player but I don't see him as in my first XI and I'm not sure if he'll take well to being on the bench, so I'll just leave him behind." I think Deschamps said as much in an interview and I guess Klinsmann had similar reasons.
Not sure if I agree with it but I can see their point of view. It's perhaps much easier to have an enthusiastic kid as back up than someone sulking thinking they should be first choice. Maybe it makes for a better environment for everyone. |
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Err... no. Kick and rush (very fast) is not good football. They never looked like an actual well-organised football team with tactics and quality players.
They have had to be well organised to overcome the fact that they don't have any world class players. They don't play kick-and-rush football. They play football based on forward passes rather than possession football. As well as being very fit and having a never-say-die attitude; never knowing when they are beaten (a typically American characteristic). |
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A very obvious answer would be that ice hockey and basketball are not British sports and did not originate in the UK : basketball started out in the USA and ice hockey in Canada.
Ice-hockey is similar to field hockey (just on ice, with smaller teams and a smaller pitch). Again a sport in which Britain have traditionally done well. Britaiin does do basketball and ice-hockey anyway (albeit on a much smaller scale to the USA, there are national leagues for these sports here). I will say that we do virtually ignore baseball in this country though. |
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Association football didn't originate in Brazil, but that doesn't seem to have stopped them.
Neither does your theory explain why baseball was very popular here before WWII stopped it in its tracks. Games attracted crowds of as much as 10'000 - Derby's old ground was known as THe Baseball Ground for that reason. In fact we actually beat the US to win the first Baseball World Cup in 1938. For some reason, it seemed to die in the fifties and sixties though. |
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An article on the subject from the BBC
Fad or forever smitten: Has the US finally fallen in love with soccer? Americans love soccer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-z1b8bx1QE Flippin good soundtrack. |
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