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How popular is football there? Is it getting more popular or is it the same as 10 years ago?
Nicholas Wilson
It is definitely getting more popular each year. Viewership and attendance in MLS are increasing and there are a lot of new teams popping up in the lower leagues. A lot of Americans choose to bandwagon European teams though, and the Premier League is way more popular than MLS.
Still will probably be the 5th/.6th most popular sport for the next decade, though.
Kevin Collins
its growing but its still genuinely an afterhthought. I can basically guarantee you that 99% of people didn't even know there was a big world cup qualifier last night. The MLS doesn't even get coverage in major sports media.
David Evans
Question for you: Do the Swiss continually shit on their own league and preferentially watch the Premier League/Bundesliga instead?
Because Americans do it and it's some shit, let me tell you.
Austin Jenkins
>mfw Costa Rica guy picked a new proxy
Hudson Richardson
Was executing all wogs part of our plan?
Carson Allen
Wogs are irrelevant, we must eliminate the Euroboo menace
Nathan Perry
11th for TFC winning it all this year
Adam Ortiz
>Soon
Connor Allen
I hate this jersey.
Camden Cox
>full kit wanker
Ryder Bennett
Tomorrow it happens.
Joseph Young
>USA qualifies as CONCACAF's 4th place >Australia qualifies as AFC's 5th place >this thread explodes
book it
Parker Campbell
and learned to speak English
Gavin Ramirez
>AFC has more qualifying spots than CONCACAF
unbelievable
Thomas Mitchell
>Soon
Carson Reyes
CONCACAF has 1 semi relevant side AFC has multiple semi relevant side
Jayden Jones
>CONCACAF Mexico, US, Costa Rica, maybe Honduras >AFC Australia, Japan, South Korea, maybe Iran
Luke Diaz
>Honduras >relevant
Leo Wright
I like Australians even though I'm a wog.
Brody Green
I got one for your wife's son tho. Do I have to return it?
>Soon
Kevin Fisher
>>Sooner
Andrew Johnson
I bet it feels pretty bad to be cowtown right now
John Nguyen
Legit feel bad for them if they're not also poised to make the jump, they've put up massive crowds for three years now
Connor Rivera
cowtown, no...
Caleb Hernandez
City will beat Wanderers 4-0.
Mason Kelly
If anything is going to encourage the growth of a rival D1 league, it's MLS' insistence on ignoring small but proven markets like Sac in favor of pipe dreams like Detroit and Miami.
Matthew Jones
Cowtown being Calgary?
Jose Parker
Sacramento
Lincoln Diaz
>>rival D1 league It's not happening, please stop What we DO need is a D2 league to take on some of these big, untapped markets without the NASL delusions of grandeur
Easton Sanders
I'm not even the NASL shill that comes here from time to time. I just think a lot of people are gonna be pretty pissed at MLS if Sac gets the shaft.
Any idea how USL's application for D2 is going?
Evan Wilson
Oh, my bad. Calgary calls itself Cowtown too.
Josiah Kelly
I really doubt NASL will accept a step down, and I really doubt US Soccer wants to have TWO different D2 leagues at the same time
As it is, NASL may not exist much longer anyhow, so I'd wager they'll keep the status quo division-wise for now and see what happens
Aiden Gray
USL is currently at 31 teams though (thanks wikipedia). I reckon they'll at least split USL into east and west, if NASL merges into USL. That's what I would do, at least.
Brayden Gonzalez
Why do Americans prefer MLS over NASL if MSL is corporate franchises and the NASL is actually clubs? Australians have no choice since our old league folded.
Jonathan Moore
>split USL into east and west That's already how it is, I believe. East and West don't meet until the playoffs.
Most Americans are marginally aware of MLS and completely unaware of NASL
NASL is a dying league anyhow.
Jason Price
Yes we do, and it's fucking annoying. Same for the NT, people are complaining even if they win every game
Liam Wilson
Because there were shitall nasl teams west of the mississippi, and those have been going defunct like crazy.
usl should just take the D2 mantle already, it's almost embarrassing
Cameron Davis
To be fair, your NT is Albania B.
Our team is mostly MLS subs though, so I can't really talk lol MLS has european players and teams in big cities. Would you rather watch New York vs Los Angeles or Fort Lauderdale vs Ottawa?
Cooper Smith
>Soon
Landon Williams
I can't wait for them to be terrible
Henry Gomez
Barring the addition of any other teams, USL SHOULD be 30 next year, according to the commish. Nobody knows for sure who's going to drop out, but the current favorite is Harrisburg.
And there's a limited amount of play between the two conferences; last season, STLFC (West) had 2-game sets with Cincy and Louisville (East), but that was the extent of it until the league final. There was a bit more crossover back in 2015 when there were only 24 teams and they filled the last few games of the schedule with local games; STLFC (East) had games vs Tulsa, OKC, and Colorado Springs (West)
Leo Rodriguez
Let me go ask 500,000,000 people individually. Brb
Evan Peterson
>30 teams next year But they just added Ottawa, and Austin is coming out of hiatus iirc
And eventually, when the NASL folds, there will be a ton of teams that will apply for MLS and USL membership, mostly for the latter. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there's 40 teams, 20 per conference.
John Ward
This past season, there were 29 teams Add the Reno expansion team, and Tampa and Ottawa to make 32 Wilmington has already dropped to PDL, making the current number 31 Austin is not coming out of hiatus until at least 2018, and most people are beginning to wonder if they're ever coming back at all
Isaac Sullivan
>e-statting our population come on now son, it's only around 300 mil
Easton Young
What is the state and city of soccer in the United States?
A place in USA, where soccer is the most popular sport of all.
And where the MLS (Major League Soccer) is the most popular sports league of all
Nolan Garcia
...
Adrian Richardson
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
Cooper Young
You've asked this before. You're either autistic irl, or really dedicated to your shitposting craft
Tyler Walker
not that many people here yet, decades from that number if it ever happens.
Liam Gray
Huh, I didn't know that, since I don't watch USL too often. But still, if/when the NASL folds, there will be 10 professional teams looking for leagues. MLS is very careful about who they admit, but I could see USL growing up to 40 teams in size.
Jaxson Stewart
At 40 teams I think they'd have to split into two tiers. The MLS reserve teams and a few of the smaller independent teams could go to D3 and the more popular ones meeting certain standards could go D2.
Jaxson Harris
>implying the dems won't get in once Trump is done and fully open the mexican border. You'll have that many people in 4-8 years :^)
Ryan Barnes
The "2" teams are going to have to start properly forging a semi-separate identity, like Bethlehem Steel have, if they're going to go into their own division again
Justin Williams
Actually, I hadn't even factored how many MLS reserves teams will be active then. At the time the NASL may fold, the MLS will have many more teams, and to be a successful MLS team, you need a reserve team. There may be more than 40.
Wyatt Cook
because NASL a shit, and my 'local' team is an MLS team, NASL has less than 10 teams and the poorer """clubs""" cant even pay their players the shitter wages they are on
Jordan Sullivan
>2016+Trump >people still shit own their own domestic leagues instead of experiencing local soccer culture with their lads
Camden Bennett
>Soon
Jace Williams
>Soon
Ryder James
>Amos Magee joins MNUFC as club’s first director of player personnel (mnufc.com) An actual announcement from Minnesota! Pic related.
Adrian Heath as head coach is a rumour as well.
Leo Kelly
When you attend local games do fans wear soccer kits of players or teams that aren't playing? It's common to see Messi or Madrid kits at my local second division side. Even saw them when Chelsea and AC Milan played in the U.S.
Most embarrassing part of local soccer culture I can think of. Maybe the supporters group doing the Iceland chant after the Euros beats it.
Christopher Martinez
>he doesnt live in a completely different state but still sees people wearing team gear while at work
Evan Roberts
what cucked state would that be?
Dominic Torres
wtf?? I HATE o'hara now!!
Caleb Gutierrez
>Liking any of the Soccer Justice Warriors Even the qts are only for lewd
Christian Reed
forgot to post without my meme name I live in Northern Delaware and the Union/soccer are pretty well known and accepted in these parts.... i have a steady group of friends who I go to games with
Jackson Lopez
damn sneks in the grass.
Anthony Turner
Has anybody put a ball into the river yet
Josiah Taylor
the river is farther than it looks, to my knowledge nobody has hit one into the river yet
Carter Garcia
>new Superliga tournament rumors
dumbasses, just go back to the old CCL 4-team groups and follow the Libertadores/AFC/Africa calendar
Oliver Roberts
Why? Both tournaments are useless
James Robinson
>international competitions are useless "no"
Christian Smith
more mickey mouse cups?
Logan Phillips
The CCL in any format is a waste of time
Samuel Foster
soon hopefully
Juan Mitchell
Delet
Matthew Anderson
>Soon
Chase Smith
Where is this and what will it look like?
Landon King
Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta
new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons NFL team and the new Atlanta United MLS team
you can google images it, the >soon poster is probably asleep atm
