DISQUS

DISQUS Hello! Major League Soccer Talk is using DISQUS, a powerful comment system, to manage its comments. Learn more.

Community Page

Major League Soccer Talk

MLS News & Analysis
Jump to original thread »
Author

Americanizing Soccer for the U.S. Sports Fan pt. 5

Started by The Gaffer · 8 months ago

The most popular reason that U.S. sports fans give for not watching soccer is its lack of scoring.  In order to attract more fans, a professional soccer league in the U.S. must, above all things, try to create more offense. 
Though many fans of the sport appreciate the ... Continue reading »

5 comments

  • Should the goals be bigger? Would that make anything more entertaining? There is no fast fix. We need to develop domestic talent, and educate. It might take 20 years. This Americanizing is crap, we don't have to be Republican exceptionalists even in soccer, the world's game.
  • Worst series of articles ever.
  • Please tell me this series of posts was a bad joke.
  • I've been reading your articles and have one comment - NASL. Been there, done that over 25 years ago...didn't work then, won't work now.
  • It is kind of ironic that this series comes on the same blog that has been pointing out how much better foreign football has done on television than MLS.

    Americans want football/soccer. They don't want a caricature of the game. If MLS integrated the best of South America and Europe here, then more people would like it. Every attempt to "Americanize" the sport here has resulted in abject failure.

    Stop trying to reinvent the wheel. This series of articles was a vast waste of time.

Add New Comment

Returning? Login