Of course, many Americans watched the World Cup this summer, including those people who couldn't appoint four teams in MLS. That's all fine. Ask an average American on the EPL or La Liga though and they probably you that if they were an alien planet or a distant galaxy. My point is, despite the progress, football has a long way to go.
Don't get me wrong, football is popular in the United States, but nothing here can be compared with the passion felt by him in Europe and throughout the world and I doubt he ever will be. We have grown into a company that stresses the need for "Americans" sports such as baseball, football and basketball.
Underprivileged children are kicking a soccer ball on the beach as the Brazilians. they're shooting hoops basketball. Fields are reserved for baseball in the summer and autumn is reserved for football, where nothing else matters.
There are some who make the sport very seriously.
Watching the 2006 World Cup was an experience that I carry with me for the rest of my life. Short cut my last class, rushing to my friend's House to watch the games, was something incredible.
Nothing compared to the Italian Cup final victory in the world. Francis Lewis Boulevard in Whitestone, Queens was completely off. A street in New York came to a stand-still and thousands of Italian Americans came out to support their country with flags, horns and anything they could find that was blue or red. The police shut down the party late into the night, but it was something to behold.
All this begs the question: Why wasn't caught football in America? As mentioned above, "American" sports has always come first, but that really means nothing because the youth football is one of the most popular sports is there. The remnants of problem that the teen can play football, but that doesn't mean that they are watching it on television.
It is because the MLS doesn't have star power? Foreign leagues are not accessible to viewers Americans? Replies can both ways.
Landon Donovan and Jaime Moreno captivated Americans, to the point where they can be activated in a MLS game and watched. ESPN had lack of coverage of those players and much more, but still, his men Americans 25 years of age were not regular rushing to stores to buy shirts, if they were being sold at all.
The answer to the second question is also tricky. Fox Soccer Channel covers many European football games and even ESPN covers some great games, but that doesn't mean that Americans are watching. When Barcelona matches up against Manchester United this summer in Washington, DC, American football fans will go crazy and the rest of the country don't care. The sport is available for the sports fan, but he isn't being consumed.
My last words in all of this is that in America, football fans have to be created, where in Europe and throughout the world, football is as natural as breathing. I can't tell you how many times I've heard my friends call it football a game of "girls" or a "foreign" sport, but they just don't understand how special is and probably never will be.
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