Soccer, is there really a wealthy side????
Going off of the David Beckham article by Matt Sleyzak. I think that soccer will have higher salary caps now that the fact that oversea players are coming. According to socceramerica.com 7 players are getting higher salaries including Freddie Adu who only got $500,000 last year. This is what is should be like if football, baseball, and basketball players can all get over millions and millions of dollars. Also Beckham is not getting 250,000,000 in one year. He is getting it over 5 years which is still a lot of money but think about it no one person is a good as him and no one cant compete with his skills in the USA. So you see soccer is getting what it finally deserves which is a higher budget because it has always been rundown by other sports. So all in all soccer is going to produce more money and is going to produce more spectators in general!!!
4 comments:
As much as I would like to see soccer rise in America, I dont think it may increase in size because theres only so much the American public is going to spend on sports entertainment. For soccer to finally to become as popular as baseball or football they would face a serious uphill battle for control of the American consumer and its dollar.
I believe that by the US bringing in foreign players to play in MLS is totally fine for the sport and economics behind it. By bringing them in your are increasing the skill of the game and also ticket sales and revenue. For instance with baseball, how many players are foreign? with out them we would have no MLB. Every sport needs to expand because not all of the best athletes are in the US. So to be a "proffessional" sport you must put all the best athletes in that league. Also by doing so it could raise the attention of soccer and more people would watch it but that would take awhile compared to football and baseball.
I disagree with the idea of soccer finally getting what it desreves, which is more attention. Beckham has been around for quite some time now and some say he is overrated. I do not think that just because people are starting to get paid a ton of money that, that wont help the attendance rates in stadiums or television rates. I agree that soccer does deserve more attention, but I dont see one person changing everyones beliefs about soccer.
Soccer will never replace football or baseball in america... paying ageing european stars huge amounts to try to popularize the sport as entertainment is a bad investment
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