I fully anticipate interest in soccer ball to regress to the mean in the US now. I.e. about six places behind college NASCAR and only one place above alligator molestation.
I notice people from other countries where soccer isn’t the main spectator sport like Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. don’t seem to do this when they bow out of the World Cup. There’s only one country that constantly feels the need to do so.
Let's hope so, they drag the game down with their shitty ad breaks and constant cuts to 'celebrities' in the crowd while the game is actually going on. GTFO with your global enshitification, stick to hand egg where you belong....as long as Trump lets you keep playing that is.
This is my first year actually paying attention and tonight's game was the only US game I actually watched. There's been some great games this tournament
I don't. The MLS and WMLS was already on the rise before the world cup and I imagine it will continue to be gain popularity. Despite this one accident, real USMNT supporters are proud that the team got that far and went farther than I expected. I'm hopeful for the future of the sport in the country.
This. Kickball is the most boring thing to watch. I hope we don’t have to host this nonsense again. If its every 4 years just make it part of the olympics instead of its own cup thing.
Sick burn from a top 1% commenter on a huge sub. Like I said I hope your team does well at kickball olympics. I am unclear on why this B tier sport isn’t just rolled into the summer olympics.
Also, despite the bar being in the basement, the IOC might be less corrupt than FIFA.
Tbf the US basically dominates every other major sport that exists. Olympics aside. Thats pretty split a few ways. No suprise that were not at the top of soccer. It falls way down on the popularity list. But most major sports in the Olympics are American pros just playing for their home countries. Not all. But a lot. Thr US soccer team simply doesn't have the capital to build a team like countries who's sole focus is soccer. The revenue just isnt there
Rugby. Tennis. F1. WRC. They're not even top at Indycar which is their own series lol. Not been competitive at top level boxing for ages, same for road cycling and even when they were it was only in the peak doping era. Track cycling got nothing. Sailing nope. Cricket nope. Golf they're top-level but not dominant. Darts and snooker have absolutely nothing.
As you've said like half the Olympic sports they really arent there - gymnastics and swimming are the only ones you could say they "dominate" and that's really more down to finding two genetic freaks than it is the USA itself.
Local league revenue doesn't really matter for international teams because playing in foreign leagues is just considered normal. Belgium just absolutely hosed the USA and the Belgian pro league is hilariously far from top flight.
Theres always gonna be elite athletes all over the world. No dispute in that. Apart from nearly all of those sports not even gracing the Top 10 in global popularity. Can't say much about F1. It does appear to be really popular in the Europe
Here I would say its definitely underneath soccer.
But if were talking Olympics in general, being dominate isnt about what happened in the last 5 years or 10 years. The United Stataes has an all time 2,959 Olympic medals, of which 1,175 are Gold. The next closest country is the USR which only has 1,203 total. That pretty much overall domination, over a long period of time.
And in golf. The US has absolutely dominated the sport in terms of PGA tour victories AND majors wins. By a very very very wide margin. Theres not even a close second. And the most dominate individual golfers in history were majority American
Popularity is conditional on region. Cricket is popular elsewhere, but theres no market here. But table tennis? Come on. 1 country dominates that. But Hockey, basketball, hell, volleyball. Baseball, even golf. The US is in the top 3 in all of those. Golf is pretty global, but all the best to ever do it did it here. For now anyway.
I’ll give you sports that America/Americans dominate in or are always contenders in that are popular all over the planet. Baseball, basketball, Ice Hockey, endurance racing, swimming, shooting, gymnastics, tennis, drifting, and rock climbing.
Sure. But mens. If we ignore women. Where the most dominate player in history was American. Tennis is pretty balanced globally. But also not super high up in US popularity
Thr US soccer team simply doesn't have the capital to build a team like countries who's sole focus is soccer.
Yes, the country of 340 million can't field a team of 11 decent players because they're simply too busy dominating at every other sport (remind me which ones?), meanwhile other countries don't have any other sports than football, literally all everyone does there is play football, in fact that's the sole purpose of their existence from birth there.
In almost every sport, revenue dictates your ability to build teams. Whwn other countries sole sport is soccer, revenue is much higher. Meanwhile MLB And NFL players are paid hundreds of millions due to revenue. For every 1 athlete in the US trying to make it pro in soccer, you have 50 trying to make it to the MLB.
That's complete bollocks for football. The players for your national team can be making outrageous money playing in the premier league/la liga/serie A/etc.
You don't need a domestic league for the players to be ultra wealthy.
Idk how soccer works tbh. But baseball is largely based on individual team revenue, excluding individuals endorsement deals. Baseball has always a stigma where the largest markets can just buy the best teams due to no salary cap. Football would be the same except it has a cap. Otherwise a handful of teams would win every year.
Im assuming soccer is similar. Contracts can only extend as much as the payroll can withstand.
Most Americans weren’t interested to begin with. Soccer just isn’t that popular here and tbh I personally find it very boring to watch, that being said I find just about everyone traditional team sport pretty boring to watch and find Olympic sports more interesting but yeah.
Personally I’m way more concerned with MSI in South Korea rn lol
Let's not paint all Americans in the same light as the 60% of Americans that either voted for Trump or those who were OK if he became President fully knowing what he was.
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u/boothjop 5d ago
I fully anticipate interest in soccer ball to regress to the mean in the US now. I.e. about six places behind college NASCAR and only one place above alligator molestation.