Comments on: Americanizing Soccer for the U.S. Sports Fan pt. 4

By: Rony

Rony — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:31:46 +0000

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By: jesse

jesse — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:40:22 +0000

It is kind of ironic that this series comes on the same blog that has been pointing out how much better foreign football has done on television than MLS.

Americans want football/soccer. They don't want a caricature of the game. If MLS integrated the best of South America and Europe here, then more people would like it. Every attempt to "Americanize" the sport here has resulted in abject failure.

Stop trying to reinvent the wheel. This series of articles was a vast waste of time.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:48:11 +0000

I've been reading your articles and have one comment – NASL. Been there, done that over 25 years ago…didn't work then, won't work now.

By: Cavan

Cavan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:17:57 +0000

Please tell me this series of posts was a bad joke.

By: hal76

hal76 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:57:37 +0000

Worst series of articles ever.

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By: huricano

huricano — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:56:39 +0000

Should the goals be bigger? Would that make anything more entertaining? There is no fast fix. We need to develop domestic talent, and educate. It might take 20 years. This Americanizing is crap, we don't have to be Republican exceptionalists even in soccer, the world's game.

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