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Will Beckham make football (soccer) big in the US?

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Atheus

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I hear he's getting some good coverage on your news and sports channels, plus he's in all sorts of magazines, etc, but will this translate into people actually watching football games? Somehow I doubt it - I can just imagine the complete lack of interest an American football game would get over here, and if it's anything like that for soccer in the US, then it's going *nowhere* any time soon.

Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see some good teams come out of the US, and I'd especially like to see them play the European sides in competition, I just don't think it's going to happen.

Reminds me of this vid posted a while ago --> http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/f...ors_picks&fg&gt1=10056

Neither of those guys are about to quit and play the other one'e sport, even though they're not too bad at it.

 
Originally posted by: lozina
Yeah, just as soon as people go to bars to drink wine instead of beers.
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Can you drink beer at American football games? Apparently at last year's FA cup final (a big soccer game) the stadium consumed 370,000 pints of beer :laugh:
 
Where have you been? It's not David Beckham that will make it big, but the soccer moms of America. For the passed decade, they've been taking their sons to soccer instead of other activities, so a new generation is born. (You don't think they got the name from taking their sons to practice badminton do you?)

Edit: If anything, I think Victoria will 😉
 
Originally posted by: ric1287
nope, can't fix a borring sport 🙂
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I think Europeans and Americans have different definitions of boring - for me, boring is where the play stops every 5 seconds and everyone just stands around.
 
I find it weird that soccer (football everywhere else but the US) is the world's most popular sport, but there is just a complete lack of interest here. I mean, I don't like it much either, I don't understand how people can get so excited about it, but obviously millions do.
 
I still couldn't care less about soccer, and I still don't understand how/why he is getting paid so much.
 
Originally posted by: SSSnail
Where have you been? It's not David Beckham that will make it big, but the soccer moms of America. For the passed decade, they've been taking their sons to soccer instead of other activities, so a new generation is born.
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I heard that all stops at college level when everyone takes up basketball, baseball, American football, etc.
 
If soccer has any hope to become more popular in the US it would be due to the large influx of immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
 
Originally posted by: Atheus
Originally posted by: ric1287
nope, can't fix a borring sport 🙂
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I think Europeans and Americans have different definitions of boring - for me, boring is where the play stops every 5 seconds and everyone just stands around.
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Or where the sport consists of an infinite amount of players running back and forth from a 300ft in the air camera angle, and score every couple of hours.
 
Originally posted by: SSSnail
Where have you been? It's not David Beckham that will make it big, but the soccer moms of America. For the passed decade, they've been taking their sons to soccer instead of other activities, so a new generation is born. (You don't think they got the name from taking their sons to practice badminton do you?)

Edit: If anything, I think Victoria will 😉
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not really, soccer moms is just a general term for the mom who takes her kids to X activity in a mini van. And the kids that do play soccer also play baseball, basketball, football etc.

Its not like in 10 years soccer will be the dominant sport in the US just cause kids play soccer for a couple weeks in the fall.
 
I'm sure the arrival of "Posh n' Becks" makes the tabloids giddy with joy but I doubt David himself will make that big of an impression. I think that Freddy Adu guy could help things out by being a good role model for young soccer players more than David Beckham who is past his prime.

I don't watch soccer or know anything about it but I see adults and kids playing soccer all the time in the summer but its mostly those from other countries (Mexicans, Albanians here in my Bronx neighborhood..etc). Its very popular everywhere except at the pro level for some reason. A few world cups or something can help out I guess.
 
Soccer is already popular, it just isn't the national sport. It still trails way behind football, baseball, and basketball. (possibly even hockey) This country has room for more than one sport.
 
Originally posted by: Atheus
Originally posted by: SSSnail
Where have you been? It's not David Beckham that will make it big, but the soccer moms of America. For the passed decade, they've been taking their sons to soccer instead of other activities, so a new generation is born.
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I heard that all stops at college level when everyone takes up basketball, baseball, American football, etc.
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That's pretty much the case, and the strange conundrum of soccer in America - everyone's playing it (or played it), but almost none of them are watching it. Growing up in the 80's, it was the biggest 'suburb sport' by far - almost every kid I knew in school played it, and soccer fields still outnumber baseball and football fields around here by far. However, beginning in about the high school years, many kids abandon it for football/basketball/baseball, and it has a minimal following at the professional level.
 
No.

Soccer is already big and one of the most popular sports here for children growing up. But I just don't ever see it getting the same kind of following here at the national/professional level (although the massive influx of Hispanics will certainly help it in certain regions.)

And I say that as someone who grew up playing soccer as a 5-year-old all the way through college (and will soon be coaching my own daughter.) I love playing soccer and love watching it in person, but I don't find it to be as compelling sport to watch on TV. That doesn't mean the quality of our professional teams won't continue to improve though.
 
Originally posted by: SSSnail
Where have you been? It's not David Beckham that will make it big, but the soccer moms of America. For the passed decade, they've been taking their sons to soccer instead of other activities, so a new generation is born. (You don't think they got the name from taking their sons to practice badminton do you?)

Edit: If anything, I think Victoria will 😉
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In every thread someone brings this up.

NO kids have been playing soccer at young ages since the 60's. Kids play soccer because it is fun playing, and the parents think it is safer than the other fall sport, football. After they get older, they want to play football and argue with their parents. Sorry.
 
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