RUSTENBURG, June 26 (Reuters) - United States 1 Ghana 2 - World Cup second round extra time latest.
At Royal Bafokeng Stadium.
Scorers
United States: Landon Donovan 62 pen
Ghana: Kevin-Prince Boateng 5, Asamoah Gyan 93
Halftime: 0-1; 90 mins: 1-1; 105 mins: 1-2;
Attendance: 34,976
Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)
Follow all matches live at http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_Cup_2010
(Editing by Patrick Johnston)
Let's face it. We Don't Care! We don't like soccer.
We don't care about this nonsense (sorry Europe/Australia/Asian/ African countries...we just don't like the "beautiful game")...
But we have suffered through having this stuffed down our throats for the last couple of weeks.
We have witnessed the "cultural" elite go through the show of being fans of this game.
Today we lost.
Thank God!
No worries. As long as I don't have to pretend I enjoy what you call football. Different strokes for different people. Stuart Mill and all those dangerous liberals... ;)
ReplyDeleteFerran
awesome!
ReplyDeletethen its agreed...i won't force you to watch American football and you won't make me watch European football!
Solomon, is football/soccer growing in popularity in the US or is it all hype.
ReplyDeleteIt is the world sport, played everywhere, after all and is practically a religion :)
i can only speak for the south and the midwest.
ReplyDeletein those places its all American football all the time.
from what i can see soccer is popular only with the chattering class...or the cultural elite who are trying to be world thinkers/travelers (i've traveled the world but i guess i remain the ugly American;))
so nope...not so hot in the US.
but the UK won right? congrats!
we play the old foes, ze germans, tommorrow
ReplyDeleteIt will run to form and we will lose on penalties!!
Also, football is one of the sports that the UK does not have a national team, so no Team Great Britain, but the home nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own teams.
OT, have you seen this
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yeah, as much as i hate to say it , its old news in the Marine Corps.
ReplyDeleteconsidered just the price of doing business....bad business but i don't know of any Marines that are going bat shit crazy being outraged by the issue.
from everyone i talk to, its about getting compensated for the damage done to people's health and moving on....
the tree huggers might be going crazy but none of the Marines involved...at least not yet.
I think there is non-trivial organic growth in the American soccer fan-base -- but it's still a marginal sport in overall fan interest. Obviously immigrants from soccer-nations remain soccer fans -- but typically of their domestic league back home and not the MLS. The World Cup has grown in popularity among the young, the cities, and upper-income folk in general.
ReplyDeletePeople like the Olympic atmosphere of the World Cup. ESPN is trying to mainstream it. But in the run-up to the World Cup the sports fans of America (especially in the South and Midwest) were mainly obsessing of college football conference realignment (whose season doesn't start for months).
MLS seems to have a sustainable and growing niche in American sports. As long as they don't go crazy with salaries they can make a living with decent attendance and minimal TV ratings. And every 4 years they'll get a World Cup bounce.
MLS is still far from even NHL levels of interest (and NHL is a good bit below the NBA and baseball, both of whom get crushed by the NFL) and might never get there. But there's still tens of millions to be made as America's 5th most popular pro team sports league. It's a big country.
World Cup as an Olympic-style spectacle is doing well, I doubt that will translate to mass soccer enthusiasm, though.
They need to make the nets bigger. More scoring would get my interest.
ReplyDeleteMind you, I only like soccer with local games [5-6 guys by team meeting at a basketball-sized court]; only enjoy some minutes of high stakes football now and then. My problem with American football is they stop it far too much --and that I think I'd lean to rugby anyhow--.
ReplyDeleteTake care. F
I think it says a lot that Americans would rather watch poker than soccer.
ReplyDeleteWow, what does this have to do with the military?
ReplyDelete"...from what i can see soccer is popular only with the chattering class...or the cultural elite who are trying to be world thinkers/travelers..." Yeah. And. So. What.
my page, my rules.
ReplyDeletefuck off.
Uh oh, we have ourselves a keyboard warrior. I think it's funny how one of the largest if not the largest sport in the world equates to hyper-Americanism, near-xenophobia and intense nationalism.
ReplyDeleteThen we have to dissect how bad the sport is because immigrants and rich people like it? Wow. "...cultural elite who are trying to be world thinkers/travelers..." And you're the ugly American? Are you armed and dangerous when you travel? Maybe that's why...
key board warrior?
ReplyDeletenot bloody likely.
a few elites in the Northeast along with ESPN hyped this game in a nation that really doesn't give a damn about it.
Since you're in Australia, I'll give you a pass...oh and yes I am armed when I travel...