Sound in most countries in the name of the game similar. Words like football, soccer, futbol, ??futebol … not only the same sounds, they are the same game. United States, but they call it football. Is Major League Soccer (MLS) as a professional American football league has been around for quite some time.
Unlike other American sports in the big leagues, MLS is not the public’s attention in the sports dominate the world, or his master as “world champion” crowned. MLS has gone through constant development. Is it anything to win significant public and media attention in the world of football? No!
Football as a sport second, seventh, or 10 as in the United States is not a big difference between the American public is still the NFL, MLB, NHL or NBA. The audience in the world would be close to the same league as they are among the world’s leading sports leagues.
In recent years, with the globalization of media, the stage of world sport began in this process, the English soccer Premier move League is known as “The Greatest Show On Earth” and is actually becoming more popular and most watched sports league in the world with a global audience now than half a billion people and media income for the seasons 2007 to 2010 over five billionth $ If the world is watching football leagues like English Premiership or Spanish La Liga, is the American major league sports to see except national audience? Is this part of the American public turn to watch the soccer leagues abroad, as well? Such questions are a problem in football is the U.S. sports.
Every now and again would MLS officials wake up from sleepiness, in the shadow of the top four U.S. major leagues will take place around the time the World Cup, and it becomes clear how big the game of football in the conditions is World Community Service, media and sponsors.
When the noise goes around the World Cup, would drop the average MLS drowsiness. It was not to be so after the football World Cup 2006 in Germany, clearly, if the world was public image of the modern European football stadiums, multi million contracts … Sports in the world spotlight got a grip on football.
This time it is not the MLS is to take the initiative to promote the MLS, all American professional sports and entertainment industry. It is an economic opportunity, where the money moves around the football world was too big to be overlooked or discarded.
In the summer of 2007, American football tried to take the world by storm as they have a football contract of David Beckham, $ 250 million, the contract to the most expensive football player in the history of the sport, some described as the market for Beckham to America fetch is likely to be the largest in the history of the sport. MLS sent a message to the world.
In midsummer, when the European leagues were among the seasons and the water was still SIA was awarded the exhibition was with Beckham’s new family moved to Los Angeles to be dominated. Overcome the world’s media stories from football and the public attention for the MLS yet? No!
Is 250 million in exposure over the long term? Time will tell. Autumn arrived, the European and international leagues thriving, world news sports publishing fewer articles about Beckham, LA Galaxy and MLS. To make matters worst, LA is not in the playoffs, what to write to the media less.
In the league, that a whole lost more than $ 350 million in the first 8 years after its inception (a BusinessWeek report of 2004), where currently only two teams, LA Galaxy and FC Dallas had, are to be profitable with three other teams should be profitable within a year, will invest $ 250 million from a player than a bet. If so, what are the chances?
In recent years, several notable players have decided not to take the big leagues in Europe and South America for a contract financial relationships with teams from the Gulf States. Title processed signal transmitted rich, but there was not much follow-up of media coverage of the leagues.
Not to mention, before the arrival of David Beckham, the MLS has tried to show with Freddy Adu, a player under the age of 16, was crowned as the next win Pel E. Adu received considerable media attention, the world knew that he plays for DC United of MLS.
Many may or may not know that Adu, last summer at the age of 18, signed a contract in Europe with Benfica FC – Portugal. Prior to his move to Benfica, Adu spent some time in the summer at a training camp of Manchester United Alex Ferguson has no reason to stay with him.
Benfica paid the club in Salt Lake City $ 2,000,000 for release of the player and Adu will receive $ 1.2 million per year, solid but not the contract that tops the news. Adu is not on the list of Benfica Champions League game against Milan on 18 September, compared with a player like Messi at the age of the current Adu was already among the starting 11 for FC Barcelona football giants. The MLS does not seem to stir excitement for the sport to have Adu, or contributed to the development of the dominant players in the world as planned. Throughout history, played some of the best football player ever in the United States, including Pel é, Beckenbauer, Eusebio …
After decades of trying, do not expect that the success of the football, this set of differential Beckham (currently on a 6-week absence due to injury) can now be done? Let’s take a quick look at the MLS, a professional soccer league that started in 1996 with more than 10 seasons of experience in progress.
Logistics and Facilities:
The date of publication of this statement, 27 September 2007, Beckham from LA Galaxy playing against the KC Wizards. SPORTiana.com, as the author of this text, had the intuition in the KC Wizards MLS through the summer of 2006, one year before the arrival of Beckham in the MLS. At that time, laments coach KC Wizard of himself and two other co-coach of the team’s training run, forcing him to leave, sit several players 26 alignment man on the bench because of not be able, they all have on the field during exercise at the same time.
The training includes an outdoor and the size of the door with the gym of the NFL team leader KC used within the complex Arrowhead Stadium. Open the wizard of the air-training site near the fence next to the fields of education KC Chiefs was removed.
The meadow was almost Assistants separate grass on the ground as hard as a rock, an area where many players on the training in order to avoid injuries would happen. One coach, two coaches to help coach … NFL stadium and facilities … small office space in the corner of a stadium … It would be a contrast to the league club, where Beckham will play before.
Player:
Most MLS players worked out in the league, the players college. College football players signed to play usually means, for a purse race with the first contracts per the age of 22 years or more. In other countries, the first professional contracts usually at the age of 18 are signed, at the age of 22, players from a four-year contract and the manager have a better understanding of the skills a player in pro football.
This means college players from four years too late. By signing a first professional contract at age 22, she released the four-year contract at the age of 26 years at the time, prefer the big football clubs in the world that their money is invested in a perspective of 22 years, that Four years experience in professional football. College players spend more difficult in MLS (First Pro Contract player) on their way to pay better than most league clubs do not sign foreigners a college football league player with no experience of professional football at the age of 22 years would play.
Prominent American actor as Demarkus Beasley (PSV 2 million – the Netherlands, currently £ 700,000 with the Rangers – Scotland) or Tim Howard ($ 4 million to Man Utd – England, currently on loan to Everton) came directly from the SIA’s School, without playing college football, just like Freddy Adu.
Observed for an average football fan with the choice of a variety of games, such giants of the game in quadrature national championships last weekend, when Man Utd vs Chelsea vs in England, Barcelona, ??Seville was Spain, Italy Roma vs Juventus, PSV vs Feyenoord in the Netherlands … Boca Juniors play in Argentina, Lyon, France … there is little room for the MLS.
Want to see a football fan, competitive, passionate, not for decades been a bitter rivalry between the clubs, the tradition, the world’s best players, players with a reputation of playing for famous clubs, football stadiums specific ultra-modern, most MLS. The MLS needs to attract the interest of the American public and the media to attract the same interest with the public world. Worker, attractive all-around players like Eddie Johnson of the KC Wizards or DC United, Jaime Moreno, who have proven their quality in Copa America in summer 2007, the players are a prototype for a successful competitive position league.
The proposed MLS soccer-specific stadiums for all modern clubs are a step forward. German Bundesliga experienced tremendous momentum of public interest and media attention nationally and globally, before and after the 2006 World Cup, with a legacy of great new and renewed old stadiums. The MLS is to internationalize as much as possible, the English Premier League has it, if foreign billionaires buying clubs, began world-class player himself came in large numbers in the Bundesliga at the most watched and profitable in the world. Many authors have on why football is not as popular in the United States, as is speculated in some other countries, most of them show the fact that the game is not scoring enough. Changing the rules of the game in favor of having more goals per game can be beneficial at this time.
Football is a powerful force, it has been the North American major sports leagues changed philosophy, MLS clubs will compete in the Super League and the Copa Sudamericana is the New York Red Bulls new stadium full “-style European” umbrella in 2007 MLS began selling advertising space on the front of the jersey (a low of $ 500,000 per shirt sponsorship), following the practice of international football.
As Latin American immigration increases the U.S. is so interested in football. With football the most popular recreational sport for boys and girls has the potential MLS. In 2006, said Don Garber, MLS Commissioner, his expectations for the League clubs in 2010 profitable overall. Beckham LA Galaxy merchandise sales over the next 4 four years with the club can not top $ 600 million, as was done during his time at Real Madrid, MLS was still a player on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine and has collected a lot of 66,000 spectators at a packed Giants Stadium.
In the words of David Beckham moving to MLS: “I came here to play football … I’m not saying that I go over to the States to soccer the biggest sport in America.” This is a step towards a time when football is in the world of football to do.