Essay 2 Currently a popular cultural phenomenon has risen over the last couple decades. Women’s sports, but more specifically women’s soccer popularity has been up for debate amount multiple age groups. Over the last 20 or so years women’s professional soccer stateside has a mountain of obstacles to face. From the gender equality on turf, to the two found leagues, or the dramatic pay deficits found within the female population. It seems like quite a large topic for debate that many argue isn’t worth it, while others argue women’s sports is on the up and coming. While looking specifically at women’s soccer, or what the English call it Futbol we see the world’s most popular sport struggling to find its roots among a strongly rooted country
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Going hand in hand with the sponsors pulling out was the lack over viewership as the league aged. The league was booming with fans its first year of existence, but later found its fans faded with the memory of the 99’ Corld cup. A lot of different reasons are found to be the cause of peoples lack of interest. First of around the early 2000’s we had taken steps to reach closer to gender equality, but many people still viewed women as people who should stay home to cook, and raise children. Not a powerful, beautiful athlete that could be just as successful as their male counterparts. Along with missing the gender equality with viewers, there was also a lack of young girls enrolled in youth soccer programs all around the country. With having such low enrollments in youth soccer parents were far less likely to bring their children to the games to watch and learn. With the lack of youth within the sport parents viewed youth soccer as a dead end for their young children, and instead enrolled their children in something they felt far more beneficial. Finally during the 2001-2003 era of the WUSA the US lacked media coverage, and social media exposure of the sport, and the teams. By lacking such exposure the general …show more content…
Many issues arise when looking at fan support. A huge factor is the location of the teams. Considering the league only contains 8 teams it can only cover so many areas. With all of the teams covering large metro areas people from small rural areas or states that don’t have teams are not given the privilege to see a wonderful league. For the league to succeed it will have to expand to other states with more teams, but to do that they must find the fan support to do so. The fan support also struggles because of a lack of TV time. Currently with a league that has little to no TV time the fans have no way of watching their favorite team if they do not live close enough to watch it live. The league has stated that many of their fans take long road trips, or even fly just to see their favorite players play in a single match. With the fans though it doesn’t happen with everyone. With the lack of fan support comes many causes, distance is the huge one. Many people are band wagon fans that could turn into die heart fans if the team was closer. With such a lack of exposure many people who supported the players in the women’s world cup have little way of continuing their support. This in turn causes the fan support to plummet just weeks after such success in the world cup. Currently the only reliable source to watch games is on YouTube. Even then this causes
Going hand in hand with the sponsors pulling out was the lack over viewership as the league aged. The league was booming with fans its first year of existence, but later found its fans faded with the memory of the 99’ Corld cup. A lot of different reasons are found to be the cause of peoples lack of interest. First of around the early 2000’s we had taken steps to reach closer to gender equality, but many people still viewed women as people who should stay home to cook, and raise children. Not a powerful, beautiful athlete that could be just as successful as their male counterparts. Along with missing the gender equality with viewers, there was also a lack of young girls enrolled in youth soccer programs all around the country. With having such low enrollments in youth soccer parents were far less likely to bring their children to the games to watch and learn. With the lack of youth within the sport parents viewed youth soccer as a dead end for their young children, and instead enrolled their children in something they felt far more beneficial. Finally during the 2001-2003 era of the WUSA the US lacked media coverage, and social media exposure of the sport, and the teams. By lacking such exposure the general …show more content…
Many issues arise when looking at fan support. A huge factor is the location of the teams. Considering the league only contains 8 teams it can only cover so many areas. With all of the teams covering large metro areas people from small rural areas or states that don’t have teams are not given the privilege to see a wonderful league. For the league to succeed it will have to expand to other states with more teams, but to do that they must find the fan support to do so. The fan support also struggles because of a lack of TV time. Currently with a league that has little to no TV time the fans have no way of watching their favorite team if they do not live close enough to watch it live. The league has stated that many of their fans take long road trips, or even fly just to see their favorite players play in a single match. With the fans though it doesn’t happen with everyone. With the lack of fan support comes many causes, distance is the huge one. Many people are band wagon fans that could turn into die heart fans if the team was closer. With such a lack of exposure many people who supported the players in the women’s world cup have little way of continuing their support. This in turn causes the fan support to plummet just weeks after such success in the world cup. Currently the only reliable source to watch games is on YouTube. Even then this causes