This started as a reply to a reddit poster claiming a USA-Turkey match in 2010 was “the highest attended soccer match ever” According to this the attendance was 55,407. Nice, but not the highest ever for soccer.http://www.ussoccer.com/news/mens-national-team/2010/05/turkey-game-report.aspx But not the larget for soccer that I can find. Portugal played the USA at RFK during the …
The ratings for this World Cup are really impressive. Its pretty safe to forecast an incremental bump. American soccer must capitalize on this momentum. "The real question will be 'what happens to Major League Soccer ratings after the World Cup?'" says Steve Master, Nielsen's vice president of sports. Master and other analysts are forecasting an …
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After watchingng all the hype leading up to this year's tournament and the breadth of coverage the tournament has received, I think we're seeing a turning point for the sport in the USA. Hopefully MLS and the domestic game can really capitalize on the interest it generates, but from here on out the World Cup …
I wish they'd compared it to traffic during the Olympics. Today’s Web traffic has been classified as “Heavy” for the better part of the day, according to measurements by Akamai. At its peak, traffic for News sites globally started a steady climb about 6 am ET and peaked six hours later, at Noon ET, reaching …
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With the World Cup barely a year away, there’s a packed slate of results I’ll be watching this week. Will the US continue its relatively straightforward qualification to another appearance? Can Bolivia maintain the slimmest hopes of qualifying alive? Costa Rica vs USA – Wednesday, June 3rd. The Americans have never won, a tie would …
Via the Sports Economist, found a link to this article in the Wall Street Journal about the high demand for World Cup tickets for the USA [subscribers only]. I can’t read the article, but its safe to assume its a mainstream journalist just catching wind of the difficulties those of us who want to follow …
According to the US Soccer site, the private sale for tickets to the National Team’s matches at this year’s World Cup Finals in Germany ends today. Not sure when exactly they’ll inform the lucky folks who get tickets.
The World Cup draw is tomorrow! The US barely missed being one of the eight seeded teams (but rival Mexico was seeded), chiefly because of the poor showing at the 1998 Cup. The FIFA rankings have a long memory, unfortunately. On the flip side, another strong run in Germany would go a long ways towards …
If you’re considering going to the World Cup in Germany next year, it appears that tickets will have an embedded RFID chip linked to your passport. While this is meant to make it more difficult to resell tickets, it also means you have to plan very carefully what games you are going to and who …
At the annual retreat for work, one of the sessions involved presenting about organizations we found interesting or good models. Finally, all my knowledge and time spent on BigSoccer and MLSNet paid off. Not all of us were tagged to present, and I felt really bad for eveyone else who actually spent some time researching …