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The Count to Infinity V7.0 (Over a year old and counting!)

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    donavannj said:
    198406. I think they made a mistake with keeping Bradley instead of going after a marquee foreign manager. The USA team is ready to take the next step, and I don't see that happening with Bradley at the helm.

    Most of our best players play overseas still. But we do have some of the better USA players playing in the MLS. The main problem of the MLS is expanding into markets which are oversaturated for sports teams as it is. The 4 major leagues for American football (NFL), baseball (MLB), basketball (NBA), and hockey (NHL) have 32, 30, 30, and 30 teams apiece, respectively, while the MLS has around... 16 with 3 more on the way. Each of those leagues has... in order, 0, 1, 1, 6, and 3 Canadian-based teams, though 2 of the MLS teams in Canada are the expansion teams.

    Problem with soccer teams succeeding in my market is that they'd have to use an American football field or some low-capacity college/high school fields in order to be in the middle of everything and be easy to get to. The National Sports Center, the only field in my area truly designed for the sport with a large seating capacity, is quite far away from everything, so teams have issues succeeding long term at it because it's an afterthought and it's hard to get to. And we're more of a hockey town anyways.

    The king sport in the USA is always in flux because, well, even having 10% of Americans as fans of your sporting league means you have 31 million fans.
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    Well that's a whole lot of teams in many different sports. That's actually a good thing in the USA; interest for many different sports. While here it's just soccer, soccer, soccer.

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    198411

    Imma stand up... imma face my demons. Yussssssssssssssss.

    Still loving Not Afraid.
     
    Ivysaur

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    I just love how the current European basketball champion is called "Fútbol Club Barcelona".

    That should explain the European preferences well enough.

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    198415

    ...

    I just realised, when people IM me, they want to talk to me. Wow. I never realised that before. XD

    /stupid moment

    And... football = basketball? D:
     
    Gabri

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    Barcelona started as a football team, but then expanded into other sports. The thing is, they haven't changed the name.

    The same thing happens here; the national hockey champion is called "Futebol Cube do Porto", so yeah.

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    Ivysaur

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    Forever said:
    198417
    I just realised, when people IM me, they want to talk to me. Wow. I never realised that before. XD
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    That... took you a while XD

    And they did change the name for their Basketball team though- to Real Fútbol Club Barcelona. But nobody calls them that for... obvious reasons. I still don't know why they even bothered.
     
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