Futbol thread.

mindlessobserver said:
I've always theorized its institutional rather then cultural. Sports in America is big business and a large portion of the business is advertisement on TV. Network television HAAAAAAAAAAATES Association Football because its a dynamic game with almost no breaks. Baseball, Baketball and American Football all have extensive breaks in play that are used to run advertisements on Network TV. So in the early days when professional leagues were setting up, those games structurally were more profitable. So that is what was played on television in the USA. Association Football got absolutely zero air time. Because there was no money from advertisement to be made.

This may change in the coming decades though, thanks to streaming models for sports media which has less reliance on advertising revenue to turn a fat profit. The dynamic nature of Association Football with its lack of advertisement breaks will also help it in this respect. Ironically, the very thing that killed it in the 20th century with the North American market may be what puts it over the top in the 21st century.
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It is totally cultural, there is no way to deny it.

What we are seeing right now (WC) is the peak of the entire pyramid structure of football. We are talking about a sport that exists independent of TV deals, media, professional level, just people playing for fun because they enjoy it. Most of them will never be pros or anything, they just enjoy playing.

What happens in USA is trying to make football exist in the same way without this base for the pyramid to actually sustain itself.

My personal example: every year I watch my state football championship, for 3/4 months I enjoying watching the games. However I LITERALLY never watched a single Premier League game in my entire life. In this case Premier League would be like the NFL of the english football and they are the top of their country, but this structure exists that is strong enough to sustain itself at different levels.

But football in USA isn't like that, it is built from top to down with MLS/USL being their pros league but without the pyramid to sustain this top, relying on just money to sustain it. And this money must come from somewhere else (ads) and it must be profitable.

The truth is that Americans are so much buckbroken by ads and commercialisation of their sports that they don't these changes for hydration breaks are too much but for everyone else they are unbearable. I mute the TV during the hydration break because I refuse to even hear what they are selling me.

The divide is so cultural that I absolutely don't understand why NFL, NBA jerseys don't have ads printed on it like football or making it even worse like a NASCAR pilot. It doesn't make sense for me because that is precisely what I expected them to do it
 
US playing like the moment too big for them. Belgium passes crisper, positioning better, better coordination, executing aggression. US standing around too much, weak passes, disjointed
 
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