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re: MLS ratings down, attendance figures even more fictitious than previously thought
Posted on 4/13/17 at 4:41 pm to Cocotheape
Posted on 4/13/17 at 4:41 pm to Cocotheape
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MLS isn't real football like your local [insert commercial giant European superclub that this guy supports]
If the USSF and MLS are going to insist on treating me like nothing more than a customer, don't be surprised when I don't buy your inferior product.
If there was a system that properly supported grassroots clubs (not single entity subsidiaries, but actual clubs) you'd see more soccer fans in this country supporting it and a healthier, more vibrant game here.
This post was edited on 4/13/17 at 4:42 pm
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Posted on 4/13/17 at 4:45 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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there was a system that properly supported grassroots clubs (not single entity subsidiaries, but actual clubs) you'd see more soccer fans in this country supporting it and a healthier, more vibrant game here.
My biggest gripe is that it is an inferior product. Defending is atrocious. But I'm an ATL fan and them boys can play. Rt now it's the only thing saving me from jumping off a cliff from being an Arsenal fan.
Posted on 4/13/17 at 7:52 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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If there was a system that properly supported grassroots clubs (not single entity subsidiaries, but actual clubs) you'd see more soccer fans in this country supporting it and a healthier, more vibrant game here.
This seems like a stretch.
Just because something worked a long time ago in other places around the world doesn't mean it could be plugged in the American pro sports landscape in the mid-1990s and automatically work. MLS has been set up and further developed the way it has to avoid the financial mistakes of prior leagues in America. It's far from perfect, but it's been the most sustainable so far.
I don't think anybody but super hipsters and haters aren't watching MLS because of its structure.
Some American soccer fans aren't going to get into it because they get spoiled (and reasonably so) by watching the best soccer in the world. It's not going to be the same here.
Posted on 4/13/17 at 8:23 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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If the USSF and MLS are going to insist on treating me like nothing more than a customer
ITT we act like the over commercialization of soccer is an American and MLS problem, all the while OP supports a quatari's play thing and a club-turned-sporting good store branding extension
Your 2nd comment is conjecture wholly unsupported by American soccer history
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