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What's your point? Liga MX probably gets higher rating in the US than the European top leagues combined and it's what second tier? No one cares about watching
by jonathankoren 10y ago
What's your point? Liga MX probably gets higher rating in the US than the European top leagues combined and it's what second tier?
No one cares about watching a bunch of foreign countries with team names that don't even make sense play games at inconvient times on a third tier cable channel that makes it impossible to watch any single team because it's just random matches on random days.
Seriously, its European sports culture doesn't fit American sports culture. The league change teams year to year. The names are incomprehensible (Juventis? "Children"? Is that what that means? Where is this team even from?) The clock is idiotic (Count down, and stop the clock when play stops. This is 19th century technology people.)
Soccer's problem in the US is that it's niche and doubles down on its nichedom (I'm looking at you Real Salt Lake and Dallas FC.) The other problem is that US isn't good enough at it, and so we don't care. (Yes, USMNT's ranking has steadily improved over the last 20 years, but it's not a powerhouse.) Conversely, the only time most Americans pay attention to soccer is when the Women's World Cup is on.
- jonathankoren 10y agoAs I suspected, Liga MX is the most watched soccer league in the US.[0] [0] http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-sp-soccer-baxter-20160501-story.html http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-sp-soccer-baxter-201...