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Sunday, May 27, 2007
Soccer Basher Turns Corner?
By VictorM: I put a question mark on the title because I can't be 100% sure that the following quote was written by Frank DeFord, a well-known sports writer who in the past has shown little sympathy for soccer. The following quote was taken from a blog run by him, so I'm assuming he wrote it. This snippet was in response to an email he received listing the pluses of the game as currently conducted by Major League Soccer (MLS):Tags: mls, major league soccer, soccer, soccer growthIt seems to me that MLS has grown up to a large degree. The marketing of soccer in the US in the past has simply not worked... MLS started out promoting soccer on the basis that US men were about to burst onto the international soccer scene and soccer would then necessarily become as big here as it is everywhere else. Nice thought, but not based in reality. Now, MLS seems to be marketing the game and a few of the recognizable players on a major sports outlet and that could just make the league a player in terms of sporting attention in the US.
I doubt I’ll ever see soccer in the US with a following equivalent to that of European nations or fans with similar passions. But my longtime reader is correct; soccer is healthier now in the US than it has ever been.
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