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FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa Discussion (pg. 138)
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| Moongoose |
| Ah man, a fantastic chance missed by Serbia :( |
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| cmay119 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moongoose
Ah man, a fantastic chance missed by Serbia :( |
No kidding, that ball was wrapped in a bow for him and he couldn't complete. |
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| Moongoose |
| , they had 3 excellent scoring chances in the last few minutes and they just cant put one in. |
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| Schadenfreude |
soccer is actually growing more quickly than ice hockey here right now chem due to the relative cheap cost of playing compared to the latter.
hockey is still a sport for the "elite" because of the high costs needed to play it. When ac milan came to play a friendly against the montreal impact they sold 57 000 tickets.
the sport right now is at the peak of its popularity in North america. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Sorry, it should have been "nearly" 50%. Projected total global sports revenues for 2012 = $141 billion, US market = $69.1 billion.
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While I agree with you in being displeased at the idea of changing a sport just to appeal to Americans (my own beloved hockey has suffered rule changes for the same goal) we must remember that sports is a business. FIFA made revenues of $1.059 billion USD last year, mostly through television ($650 million) and marketing rights ($277 million) < source >. Presently, football ranks in as the 5th of 5 major sports in the US, meaning it gets far less of tha nearly $70 billion then the others. I fear it is inevitable that FIFA will take action to try and gain a bigger share of that market. I'm just asking what would be a reasonable way to do it. |
These figures are complete bull and you know it. For a start a huge chunk of that market in the US is from sports that are only watched in the USA (baseball, basketball, hand-egg and to a some extent hockey) and therefore have no base for argument in a discussion about what football could be worth to the US market.
Fifa also stands to make 3.5bn from the world cup event alone this year, with the USA being one of the least important markets to them. |
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| Nrg2Nfinit |
| go germany.. I hope ozil doesn't tge thte gas chamber. |
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| Trance-MB |
| Indeed a beautiful one. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by Schadenfreude
soccer is actually growing more quickly than ice hockey here right now chem due to the relative cheap cost of playing compared to the latter.
hockey is still a sport for the "elite" because of the high costs needed to play it. When ac milan came to play a friendly against the montreal impact they sold 57 000 tickets.
the sport right now is at the peak of its popularity in North america. |
I don't disagree that soccer is growing in north america...and hockey at the youth level in the major cities is actually declining.
I don't think soccer is even close to reaching its peaks yet in North America.....soccer has more potential for growth then any other sport in North America. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
These figures are complete bull and you know it. For a start a huge chunk of that market in the US is from sports that are only watched in the USA (baseball, basketball, hand-egg and to a some extent hockey) and therefore have no base for argument in a discussion about what football could be worth to the US market.
Fifa also stands to make 3.5bn from the world cup event alone this year, with the USA being one of the least important markets to them. |
you really are dense
This just shows you how much potential FIFA has at making even larger sums of money if they can take a larger portion on the 61 billion dollars out of north america.
The objective is to take some of that money people are spending on other sports and get them to spend it on soccer instead. People only have so much money to spend on sporting entertainment so you need to find ways to get that money from the other sports. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance-MB
But what about influences at school, friends, television then?
My father never played sport (only watch it on tv), but I did play football, tennis, (moutain)biking and later even squash. I would have played hockey (not ice) if there would have been a club in the neighbourhood. I mean, looking at my own youth I think my father's influence wasn't that much.
I'm happy the US made it to the next round at the end. Good for football in the US too :) |
You can't just look at your own situation...as you said your father never played any sports. School and friends are also influences but you can't ignore the influences a father or mother will have on a child....especially if they are active in sports. If my kids came to me and said they wanted to play soccer I wouldn't say they couldn't. |
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