#6 American people are not interested in Worldcup?

American people are not interested in Worldcup?

I like soccer so much and Worldcup game is one of my favorite spoting events. I listened sports related show airing from public radio channel on June 15, 2010. It introduced some big sports matches which will be opened coming weekend. It mentioned about Tiger Woods who will participate in US Open Golf and the story about NBA playoffs. However, it didn’t mention about Worldcup at all. It already passed several days after opening ceremony and there were many big matches during the week and even weekend but was nothing about Worldcup.

If so, what is the reason?

One of my American friend told me that soccer is not suitable for the commercial in US broadcasting system. There are so many commercials during the sporting events. Actually, I remember that I watched TV commercials almost every 10 or 20 minutes in a game. However, soccer games last 45 minutes without any break time. That’s why broadcasting companies don’t like to air the soccer games and people don’t have much information about Worldcup.

Another reason is that there are many popular sports other than soccer in US. They are football, major league baseball, basektball, Ice Hockey, Tennis or Golf. American soccer team didn’t ever win first place in Worldcup before and that’s why people are less interested in soccer than other sports.

By the way, I went to local diner with my friends this morning and saw that several people were talking about Worldcup and American team score in Worldcup. You know what? I felt that they were really passionate about soccer and especially Worldcup.

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