Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Baseball an American sport dirived from Cricket, and Football an American sport derived from Rugby?
Maybe we need to derive an American sport from what we now call “soccer”. I remember indoor soccer was tried. That actually looked pretty cool.
I do know that most kids that play soccer at a very young age move on to American sports when they reach Middle school or high school. Mine did, as did all their friends.
Maybe we don’t need to have a sport rammed down our throats. I’m a musician. I don’t like rap or hip-hop. If or when it morhps into something I like, well, I’ll like it.
The question asked in the article is for the marketers of Soccer in the US, not the consumers that don’t really care to watch it.
BTW, the World Cup numbers are high because it is an annual event. How high would the numbers be for it or, say the Olympics, if you could watch them every weekend? I enjoy watching soccer for short spurts while at a sports bar. I rarely see anybody score, but it is usually pretty exciting when they do. I confess that one of the most annoying parts of the game is the inability of players to use their hands to accomplish anything. It’s like having to play ping-pong with your eyes closed. It’s a fabricated challenge.
If they put a wall up at the end of the field and let the ball bounce back into play after an attempted shot, you would get rebound, second-chance shots and more scoring.
Imagine hockey if after every missed shot, they blew the whistle and had to start over again.
Baseball isn’t American. It was invented in England (as base ball) and its roots come from the girls game of rounders.
It's certainly an improvement.......
Actually Baseball was derived from the English game, Rounders.