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Message: [QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 3908282, member: 1452"] 9MM viewers for the final between ESPN and Spanish-language TV. That matches the viewership for the NBA finals on ABC in primetime. This country has come a long, long way since the 1982 World Cup final, which was the first live broadcast of a World Cup game on American television (complete with commercials - fortunately, there were no goals scored during the commercial breaks). The Euros, on the other hand, were first aired only in 2008. When I tell my son that, when I returned from Europe in the late seventies, that none of my friends knew what the World Cup was, what the Euros were, what Copa America was, what Serie A, La Liga, the Bundesliga, the Football league, the Cup of Champions, the Cup Winners Cup or the UEFA cup were and that the only soccer on TV was a highlights show on PBS called "Soccer Made in Germany" or the occasional Cosmos game, he just shakes his head. [/QUOTE]