Copa issues

[Tommy Tainant]

Expensive tickets, empty seats and brutal heat: Copa América’s fan problem

Tournament soccer should be a party but exorbitant ticket prices, high temperatures and ill-considered venues have hurt the atmosphere

www.theguardian.com

It doesnt sound like a massive success. There is nothing as depressing as a half empty stadium..
The ticket prices look extraordinary as well.. Nobody is going to pay top dollar to watch Veneauela play Jamaica.
Also pl;aying in the heat of the day is not very responsible.. It sounds bleak.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

It doesnt sound like a massive success. There is nothing as depressing as a half empty stadium..
The ticket prices look extraordinary as well.. Nobody is going to pay top dollar to watch Veneauela play Jamaica.
Also pl;aying in the heat of the day is not very responsible.. It sounds bleak.

The real point of the article is to cover up the truth as to why it draws so poorly, and that is because the sport is terribly boring...we do not like it, in any form under any conditions and circumstance... the push to popularize soccer in America has been going on since at least the seventies and nothing has worked, we hate it, plain and simple...you need to figure out how journalists and journalism really work tommy.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

The real point of the article is to cover up the truth as to why it draws so poorly, and that is because the sport is terribly boring...we do not like it, in any form under any conditions and circumstance... the push to popularize soccer in America has been going on since at least the seventies and nothing has worked, we hate it, plain and simple...you need to figure out how journalists and journalism really work tommy.

Well that is patently untrue. My own club played a "friendly" in front of 60000 retards last summer.There is an appetite for football in the US and by that measure this tourney has failed.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Well that is patently untrue. My own club played a "friendly" in front of 60000 retards last summer.

sounds like every soccer game ever.

There is an appetite for football in the US

an anorexic appetite

and by that measure this tourney has failed.

true of every game by every measure...if we wanted it, it would be here.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

You only like sports that no one else plays. But there is an appetite for the game God gave to the world. You are just behind the curve.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Expensive tickets, empty seats and brutal heat: Copa América’s fan problem

Tournament soccer should be a party but exorbitant ticket prices, high temperatures and ill-considered venues have hurt the atmosphere

www.theguardian.com

It doesnt sound like a massive success. There is nothing as depressing as a half empty stadium..
The ticket prices look extraordinary as well.. Nobody is going to pay top dollar to watch Veneauela play Jamaica.
Also pl;aying in the heat of the day is not very responsible.. It sounds bleak.

Football suffers two problems.

First being money - expensive tickets, expensive TV channel subscriptions, expensive shirts etc.. to pay ridiculous players wages. If folk are stupid enough to part with stupid amounts, more fool them.

Secondly - the overpaid players dive at any opportunity to cheat. The airflow off a running player can seem to knock over an opponent to the floor, then they clasp their face, and role 53 times in agony.

Football is crap, so if the crowds dwindle, good.

 

[Pure Comedy Gold]

Only 29,000 turned out for Venezuela v Ecuador at California’s Levi’s Stadium, a venue with a capacity of 65,500. Even the host nation, playing at the home of the Dallas Cowboys in their tournament opener, could muster only 48,000 fans in an 80,000 capacity stadium.

They're seriously complaining about that?! They're lucky they got that many.

I read further in the article that one game started at 5pm on Monday. Another started 3pm on Wednesday. Seriously? You have a game the day after weekend sports before people are even off work, and you expect more?

And then, you have a game at 3pm when people are still at work?

Americans don't like soccer. It's too imbalanced. I like defense as much as the next guy, but repeated games of 1-0 are sleeping pills. On top of that, they have these overtime shootouts. They score a bunch of goals in ten minutes, which is totally contrary to the game's spirit of anticipation and eruption when some guy actually puts one in the net.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

They're seriously complaining about that?! They're lucky they got that many.

I read further in the article that one game started at 5pm on Monday. Another started 3pm on Wednesday. Seriously? You have a game the day after weekend sports before people are even off work, and you expect more?

And then, you have a game at 3pm when people are still at work?

Americans don't like soccer. It's too imbalanced. I like defense as much as the next guy, but repeated games of 1-0 are sleeping pills. On top of that, they have these overtime shootouts. They score a bunch of goals in ten minutes, which is totally contrary to the game's spirit of anticipation and eruption when some guy actually puts one in the net.

Love it.

 

[jack3]

They're seriously complaining about that?! They're lucky they got that many.

I read further in the article that one game started at 5pm on Monday. Another started 3pm on Wednesday. Seriously? You have a game the day after weekend sports before people are even off work, and you expect more?

And then, you have a game at 3pm when people are still at work?

Americans don't like soccer. It's too imbalanced. I like defense as much as the next guy, but repeated games of 1-0 are sleeping pills. On top of that, they have these overtime shootouts. They score a bunch of goals in ten minutes, which is totally contrary to the game's spirit of anticipation and eruption when some guy actually puts one in the net.

I love it when they spend mega energy kicking the ball backwards.