Since its conception, the beautiful game of soccer has been a sport played all over the world, played by many ages and admired by all. In Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa, soccer is as big of a deal, if not more, than American football is in the United States. While soccer has not been in the United States for that long, the American people do not elevate it to the same status as they do baseball, basketball, or football. In the rest of the world, soccer is considered to be their pastime and they watch it at all times of the year and have a great love and respect for the game that cannot be compared to a love for another sport. Americans mainly see soccer as a game for them to sign their children up to play when they are a young age,
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There will be many timeouts and commercial breaks, as well as referees trying to determining if there was an infraction on the play. All of these breaks give the fans time to go to the restroom or go to the concession stand for for a beverage or some food. One reason why Americans like those two sports better than soccer would be because in the game of soccer, the game clock never stops. They continue to play during the forty-five minute halves with only a fifteen minute break at halftime. Americans do not care for this because do not have time to get a drink or anything without missing some of the game. With the other sports though, there are breaks constantly; which makes most Americans not partake in watching
Johnson 3 the sport of soccer. This is also why the media does not televise soccer as much as the other sports, because the media does not get to make as much money from showing commercials every five minutes. For the game of soccer to be better televised in America, then there would need to be a way to incorporate commercials into the game. Doing so would make the media televise it more often, which in turn would allow more people to watch the game, making it more popular to the American …show more content…
If American soccer could acquire one of these superstars, then there would be an increase in the number of viewers of the game. These were just a few of the points that could be used to justify the reasons of how soccer could become more popular.
Some people, however, would object to the whole idea of making soccer another major sport in America. They would argue that America already has their own sports (i.e. baseball, basketball, and football) and that America does not need to conform another sport to the “American” style. They would propose that soccer needs to just stay in Europe and the other soccer loving continents and for America to just stick with their sports. In response to these objections, America does have their own sports but adding soccer to the mix would not harm anything. In order for soccer to become more popular in America then it does need to have an element of not being just a foreign sport but one that Americans can enjoy too. If soccer were to become more popular and were able to grow to the state of soccer in Europe, then America could then compete on a world level and gain respect throughout the
There will be many timeouts and commercial breaks, as well as referees trying to determining if there was an infraction on the play. All of these breaks give the fans time to go to the restroom or go to the concession stand for for a beverage or some food. One reason why Americans like those two sports better than soccer would be because in the game of soccer, the game clock never stops. They continue to play during the forty-five minute halves with only a fifteen minute break at halftime. Americans do not care for this because do not have time to get a drink or anything without missing some of the game. With the other sports though, there are breaks constantly; which makes most Americans not partake in watching
Johnson 3 the sport of soccer. This is also why the media does not televise soccer as much as the other sports, because the media does not get to make as much money from showing commercials every five minutes. For the game of soccer to be better televised in America, then there would need to be a way to incorporate commercials into the game. Doing so would make the media televise it more often, which in turn would allow more people to watch the game, making it more popular to the American …show more content…
If American soccer could acquire one of these superstars, then there would be an increase in the number of viewers of the game. These were just a few of the points that could be used to justify the reasons of how soccer could become more popular.
Some people, however, would object to the whole idea of making soccer another major sport in America. They would argue that America already has their own sports (i.e. baseball, basketball, and football) and that America does not need to conform another sport to the “American” style. They would propose that soccer needs to just stay in Europe and the other soccer loving continents and for America to just stick with their sports. In response to these objections, America does have their own sports but adding soccer to the mix would not harm anything. In order for soccer to become more popular in America then it does need to have an element of not being just a foreign sport but one that Americans can enjoy too. If soccer were to become more popular and were able to grow to the state of soccer in Europe, then America could then compete on a world level and gain respect throughout the