Have you seen someone previously indifferent to football (soccer) suddenly interested in the wake of Messi’s arrival in Miami?
I mean Native Americans, family, friends, acquaintances.
one never knows how much there is of inflated marketing and how much of real interest.
The news that comes here only talks about an awakening of soccer as a show in Miami, that is, only linked to a messimania
No…nobody I know cares two wits except for a handful of people who were already soccer nuts. The soccer nuts absolutely believe it is a publicity stunt. I did not care about soccer before and don’t now. I guess I care more about the US Women’s National Team because they’ve been good for many years. I live in New York so am several States removed from Miami, Florida.
It’s what I thought. Football (soccer) is the most important sport on the planet. In the US it does not exist and for the moment the arrival of Messi cannot change something as deeply rooted as the preference of national sports.
I would say that American football is the most popular professional sport in the US in terms of TV Contracts and values of the Teams. Washington Commanders team just sold for 6 billion a week ago. 30 years ago, the answer was Baseball. Just North of me in Canada, less than a half hour away, it is Hockey. That bleeds into my city of Buffalo where we are small in population but rabid about our American Football and Hockey.
Basketball is huge in some areas of the country as well. So I guess with all that, there isn’t enough room for soccer.
Who’s Messi 
the one who is just messing around 
Damn fucking right it is.
No one really cares or watches soccer here except the World Cup
I know, it’s a cultural thing. I wanted to know if the arrival of Messi had moved the ammeter by one tenth.
This thread was the first I heard of Messi even making his way here. That said I feel as if interest in the big televised sports has fallen off among younger generations (born under pluto in scorpio or later) regardless of what sport you are talking about. The exception being people who live in cities with teams that actively promote community engagement.
I understand that you are talking about the drop in interest in televised sports in the USA. That is why Messi’s boom on Apple TV is news. This is around the world except the USA according to what you tell me.
It’s probably a combination of Messi bringing attention to the sport and the move to the Apple TV platform. The soccer fans I’ve known were almost all apple users, and accessibility/ease of consumption is probably the #1 thing necessary for anything to be popular in the US.
E: Texted a few friends to ask if they’ve subscribed/watched since his arrival and the answer from two of them was that they went ahead and bought the MLS Season Pass once it came to apple because it was cheaper than going out to a bar to watch their games.
Maybe. It hasn’t personally moved me to watch it though. I did however manage to catch some highlights of his games.
I like my baseball, basketball and hockey
Where are all my fellow Canadian chads at?? Let’s drink some beer and watch some hockey, fuck yeah.
Well, in october
Soccer isn’t really popular in the US, Messi joining does very little for the sport in the US.
The reality is… most of those subscribers are probably not US citizens.
Where in Canada are ya?
Toque you long enough, eh bud?
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edit: (troll post lol)