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[QUOTE="Phillymoose, post: 1755414, member: 254"]
All we need to know is soccer is growing dramatically in the USA.  That is a fact.  How much it grows over over the next 5-10 years is anyone's guess, but the country-wide demographic shifts definitely will accelerate, not decelerate, that growth.

Soccer and baseball viewership is not a zero sum game.  Not sure why these two things ever need to be compared, and this goes for the soccer fans that like to beat their chests and declare impending supremacy over America's past-time.  I think there is one thing that could absolutely catapult soccer in the US - to levels inconceivable even just a few years back, and that is the US men making some real noise in the World Cup.  I'm talking about a finals run or a finals win.  I think we'd go soccer crazy as a nation if that happened, and really big viewership numbers would roll in.  We already saw it with the ladies, it would be even greater with the men.

We just can't seem to get out of our own way, however, in terms of cultivating soccer talent.  If we could just simply produce one world class bonefide star on the World Stage (whether in Spain or the BPL) - that would also be a game-changer.
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