Soccer in the U.S. has not always had the best track record. Its popularity wavers and interest is usually tied to significant events, such as the World Cup or the Olympics. Major League Soccer has spent over 25-years trying to change soccer’s sentiment in the U.S. while competing with more fast-paced, high-scoring sports like the NFL and the NBA.
Over the last ten years, the MLS has become increasingly popular. The league garnered the attention of top talent, brought in significant investments, and generated a massive presence on social media. However, before the MLS can overtake the MLB soon, the league needs to dominate one crucial area: television viewership.
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How Major League Soccer Plans To Overtake Baseball
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The NFL has became too commercialized it’s annoying. Constant commercials, advertisements, etc. Baseball is boring as hell to watch. I don’t like basketball so I don’t even bother watching. Soccer has to be it.
In baseball they kneel for the national anthem in soccer they kiss their jerseys.
Americans will ruin soccer
It's not soccer its footballlll
I think hockey is going to overtake football in the US, it’s so fast paced and about an hour long.
What about hockey??
Soccer and NBA are fluid games which require a lot of skill, especially in flopping
Baseball is Americas favourite pastime. Soccer is for ? ? ?⬛ ?
i rather watch a soccer or hockey game instead most of those american football players are overweight fat out of shape and slow plus 4 hours of comercials
Hope the mls can improve because they are really boring to watch right now but if you wanna watch real exciting football watch European leagues now those are some exciting games
i dont like american football=rugby dont like the long pauses after a tackles
wiil prefer hockey or basketball instead ofcourse they are not consider world wide sports .
soccer is a world wide sport
And two days ago, the Seattle Sounders became the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League Champions! MLS is on the rise and will participate in the next World Club Cup. How sweet is that? From this LAFC fan, it's still oh so sweet.
The US had a league in the early part of the 20th century. It was one of the best in the world, but it didn't survive the Great Depression. Other sports leagues did, and that made a huge difference. More recently, the initial iteration of NASL was also very good. It overspent and was wiped out by a relatively minor recession.
Now we've got MLS, and in spite of all these frustrated people that kept saying Spend More! Do this or that, and the fan interest will come….MLS learned from our past mistakes and held the line as one of if not the most conservative spender of all top tier leagues in the world. The league almost folded back in the day, but it isn't folding now.
MLS will survive this pandemic, and it will do so rather easily. Planned expansion teams have pushed back some of their early milestones by about a year, and that's it. So many other leagues and teams are having and will have some real debt problems. Even with leagues with way more history, even if they're on much better footing to put it mildly, these problems will follow them for decades to come. So many of the major buyers in the world will have to tighten their belts- the big 3 in the city of Istanbul are one example that may fly under the radar, but there's way more examples than that.
MLS will hold the line and remain conservative. MLS can be incredibly selective in the global transfer market and make careful decisions about the best fit. The under-22 initiative is going to be so important in developing young internationals and also for hanging on to our homegrown talent for a little bit longer. Teams like FC Dallas and Philly (and Seattle) are going to really show out in the next few years. Their HGs will help them be so much more balanced and complete- and an advantage in depth makes the biggest difference when balancing match congestion. Most of all, the teams with the best HG talent will be able to sell those players to their fan base. World class players From The Local Development System, PLAYING SOME OF THEIR BEST YEARS FOR THEIR MLS CLUB. That's where it's at. That's what it is.
MLS is going to steadily move the needle because of all those things taken together, and 2026 is going to be a flashpoint. I hope we show well and make some history, and then I hope we can carry that momentum forward.
The entire world would like to see soccer/football dominating American tv sports
Seattle just took the CCL CUP!!! LFG!!!!!
MSN games are so fun to go to
WE HATE SOCCER
Fun fact ! soccer is the largest sport in the world we gotta get good at it
Make a video on how the USL plans to overtake the MLS
NGL even after all this year's I still can't get myself to be ready for hearing the word "Soccer". I just can't ?
I knew the game was taking off when I saw the support second division USL teams have. Some of these teams have a packed stadium every game. There’s passion for second division American football. I love it. The 2022 World Cup is gonna grow the game even more. Baseball is my number one and it’s slowly dying in front of me (I’m 21) and that sucks but football is also a sport I have been wishing was much bigger in the country for years now
Definitely a more watchable sport
NFL never appealed to me and MLB lost my support years ago. While soccer is my favorite sport over basketball and hockey, I don't like how MLS is an Americanized version of the sport base on its complicated player signing rules, having single entity franchise clubs (all majority owned by the league) and having a structure that forces parity while robbing them of forming a true identity, ambitions beyond league glory and consistency.
It’s possible if the quality of MLS play actually looks better than college soccer.
Don't go woke.
Us Mexican Americans are turbocharging the sport!
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2026 is going to wake so many Americans up when they see tourists from all over the world in their home cities breaking their bank just to travel there and watch a game.
I've always been a soccer fan since I was a kid now I'm 30 years old and the growth of soccer and MLS doesn't surprise me soccer is fast pace and just a fun sport to either watch or play
I’m trying to get into the MLS because after the NBA season, I don’t have anything to watch. I’ve been watching so many videos to get into it. Baseball as well but I’ve watched the NY derby and it got me excited to root for the Red Bulls since they’re in NJ. Easily reminds of me Nets vs Knicks. Imma genuinely try to keep up this season
World Cup is one month where all the cultures and religions of the world get together to party around a ball. So it's amazing that MLS is growing so we can be united with the whole world for 90 minutes in a soccer match.