zabbadabbado wrote:MLS Football (soccer for Americans ).
I started watching MLS last season, following our embryonic American little sister, wearing our Sky Blue NYCC.I was wondering has anyone else started getting in to it like me ?
It’s not the Premier League, still I have to say,i have been impressed by the real improvement in American Football. The US fans I have to say are simply brilliant; they have really embraced Football (soccer), even all the parody terrace chanting. I Watched Orlando v NYCC last night. The new sold out impressive 25,000 Orlando ground was rocking all game, there was even a designated standing/singing area, complete with cup holders. The fans were just brilliant, singing their hearts out from the first minute to the last. American chants are fucking hilarious…..”NYCC you aint got no history…"NYCC you aint got no history"…even the British commentator was like "these chants are making me chuckle".
I can’t believe how much football in US has changed. I remember when they simply didn’t get football (soccer). People faces in the crowd simply looked confused.
These days watching US football (soccer) you could be forgiven for thinking any of these games were in England. The crowds are rocking, the singing is excellent and would shame many English grounds. We could actually learn from the Americans. If we had a designated standing/singing section at the Etihad (maybe without the Cup holders) it would have our ground rocking also.
Very Impressed with the way US Football has evolved on, and off the pitch. Packed grounds is what you want to see.
I think thats what i enjoy about MLS.You get the American/Canadian indetity coming through with the football.Sawing a Tree Trunk,it is funny as fuck,alien to us though.Wonderwall wrote:zabbadabbado wrote:MLS Football (soccer for Americans ).
I started watching MLS last season, following our embryonic American little sister, wearing our Sky Blue NYCC.I was wondering has anyone else started getting in to it like me ?
It’s not the Premier League, still I have to say,i have been impressed by the real improvement in American Football. The US fans I have to say are simply brilliant; they have really embraced Football (soccer), even all the parody terrace chanting. I Watched Orlando v NYCC last night. The new sold out impressive 25,000 Orlando ground was rocking all game, there was even a designated standing/singing area, complete with cup holders. The fans were just brilliant, singing their hearts out from the first minute to the last. American chants are fucking hilarious…..”NYCC you aint got no history…"NYCC you aint got no history"…even the British commentator was like "these chants are making me chuckle".
I can’t believe how much football in US has changed. I remember when they simply didn’t get football (soccer). People faces in the crowd simply looked confused.
These days watching US football (soccer) you could be forgiven for thinking any of these games were in England. The crowds are rocking, the singing is excellent and would shame many English grounds. We could actually learn from the Americans. If we had a designated standing/singing section at the Etihad (maybe without the Cup holders) it would have our ground rocking also.
Very Impressed with the way US Football has evolved on, and off the pitch. Packed grounds is what you want to see.
Looks like the American public has taken to it. By all accounts it's the biggest growing sport in the USA.
They do still have the odd American gimmick like the portland timbers chainsawing a piece off the tree trunk for every goal. Still, it's a tradition.
Got to say I absolutely hate the pitch for NYCFC home games. They need a home and the Yankee stadium isn't it.
Wonderwall wrote:zabbadabbado wrote:MLS Football (soccer for Americans ).
I started watching MLS last season, following our embryonic American little sister, wearing our Sky Blue NYCC.I was wondering has anyone else started getting in to it like me ?
It’s not the Premier League, still I have to say,i have been impressed by the real improvement in American Football. The US fans I have to say are simply brilliant; they have really embraced Football (soccer), even all the parody terrace chanting. I Watched Orlando v NYCC last night. The new sold out impressive 25,000 Orlando ground was rocking all game, there was even a designated standing/singing area, complete with cup holders. The fans were just brilliant, singing their hearts out from the first minute to the last. American chants are fucking hilarious…..”NYCC you aint got no history…"NYCC you aint got no history"…even the British commentator was like "these chants are making me chuckle".
I can’t believe how much football in US has changed. I remember when they simply didn’t get football (soccer). People faces in the crowd simply looked confused.
These days watching US football (soccer) you could be forgiven for thinking any of these games were in England. The crowds are rocking, the singing is excellent and would shame many English grounds. We could actually learn from the Americans. If we had a designated standing/singing section at the Etihad (maybe without the Cup holders) it would have our ground rocking also.
Very Impressed with the way US Football has evolved on, and off the pitch. Packed grounds is what you want to see.
Looks like the American public has taken to it. By all accounts it's the biggest growing sport in the USA.
They do still have the odd American gimmick like the portland timbers chainsawing a piece off the tree trunk for every goal. Still, it's a tradition.
Got to say I absolutely hate the pitch for NYCFC home games. They need a home and the Yankee stadium isn't it.
http://www.metrosoccernation.com/exclusive-details-emerge-financial-agreement-cfg-yankees/
My bad if this version was already posted, but this is concerning news.
The existence of a capital-based ownership agreement between CFG and the Yankees, and the lease for use of Yankee Stadium alters the understanding of NYCFC’s incentives to eventually build and manage their own stadium. If the cost of the lease begins to exceed the revenue needed to turn a profit, the Club will have to look towards building their own stadium to reduce annual expenditures by not pay a landlord.
However, based on statements from the organizations, it appears NYCFC is squarely in the black, and attendance numbers seem to indicate prolonged interest in the club. With the Yankees 20% ownership interest, it’s unlikely that NYCFC’s revenue is being affected enough to persuade them to spend exorbitant amounts of money to build and maintain their own stadium.
good post mate.PrezIke wrote:The fan quality in MLS seems to be the draw for many, but it's also the ignorance of some American fans that I think even allows for it to be what it is. It is also a sport that, frankly and sadly, has grown in popularity among mostly white Americans tired of "big money sports" and "overpaid" (I'd argue also related to the race of some) players in the NBA, NFL and MLB.
More knowledgeable football fans, those who grew up playing FIFA years ago on video game consoles, Latinos from football countries and immigrants from Caribbean, Middle Eastern, African and other football oriented countries tend to follow big European clubs. Why? Some of it I believe relates to familiarity and celebrity, but it is also due to the quality of the product on the pitch which is still so far behind it is difficult for me to get into it too much.
I am a fan of NYCFC, naturally, but every time I watch I find myself missing the quality that we are used to seeing in Europe.
Hopefully due to the sport growing we start to see more homegrown talent from the U.S., but so far that isn't happening, and is why the U.S. men's team is so atrocious/in transition, and MLS is not improving enough in quality.
zabbadabbado wrote:Just watched the Minessotta game i taped last night,"oh my God" it gave me flash backs of some of the games at Main Road in the 70s.No way would our Health and Safety trads allow a game like that these days.Great game considering the conditions.
JamieMCFC wrote:zabbadabbado wrote:Just watched the Minessotta game i taped last night,"oh my God" it gave me flash backs of some of the games at Main Road in the 70s.No way would our Health and Safety trads allow a game like that these days.Great game considering the conditions.
I was at the game. That is a typical March day in Minnesota. The manager is former City player Adrian Heath.
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