With the talk of European matches being played in the USA and seeing how mls is trying to not let that happen would it be good or bad for the usl if LaLiga and EPL played in the US? Feel it’ll be a good thing as that can ignite a soccer boom in this country with people wanting more and support local clubs and seeing how usl especially league 2 are in smaller markets it could help those clubs or am I wrong and would it hurt the usl’s growth
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Here's the thing; soccer's popularity in general is doing fine in the US. I'm willing to bet there are more soccer fans than hockey fans, and it's probably going to catch baseball within a decade or two.
The real issue is that the support isn't going to the local team, or even MLS; most of the eyeballs are on the Premier League and Liga MX (and La Liga etc to a lesser extent).
So, if anything, it's just going to re-enforce the European leagues' claim to the US market and not actually do anything for MLS/the USL.
MLS is already above NHL in multiple metrics. The only real issue is that it's not as profitable and thus not as presentable and thus not taken as seriously because it's not as talked about. There are now Big 5 North American sports leagues. Talking heads just don't like talking about it.
This I've explained it before from a business standpoint. There are 4 slices of pie and the NFL has about 50% NBA 25% MLB 10%NHL has some of the rest but not all.
The system has established and formed with that dynamic jobs careers etc. It's in the establishment advantage to not want to talk about it(soccer).
To those that might say we'll they do see EPL/Champions League... I'm happy you might mention it. EPL and European Soccer pose no threat. They are played in the morning/early afternoon and are mainly out of the way of our traditional US Sports time frame. Those in media can pretend and some really indulge to like soccer but just the European kind. It doesn't interrupt their ecosphere and they get to be appear cool young and hip tweeting about Champions League etc.
To appear to embrace, promote and talk up about European soccer EPL is easy it doesn't interfere with their work career or moneythe way domestic soccer MLS would if they properly talked about it like they should. MLS domestic soccer can only get so big because traditional sports media has a benefit to keeping the established hierarchy.
You're already see some further down the tier like MLB struggle to maintain its media deals and revenue. Now imagine MLS universally acknowledged in sports media as the 5th Major Pro League even though it meets metrics that were established historically as being a Major League Revenue $2b+, Geographic Foot Print, Attendance (relevency).