Basketball arenas are generally smaller due to it being indoor and the court is smaller than a football pitch. Also, MLS has 1 game a week for 6 months? While NBA has 82 games over the season meaning 3 games a week for 6 months.

Beat tme too it. :P

Isn't this explained simply by the fact that the premier league features the best players from the world over? Spain is similar. While Germany etc have a much better emphasis on home grown players?

England will never be competitive internationally while the doors are slammed shut on developing Homs grown talent and instead just importing it on the transfer market.

MLS is definitely growing. But the standards are like 2nd tier football in Europe so there is a long way to go. It's more like a retirement home for past their best European players at the moment. :p

this is like the same thread I made years ago. lol soccer is gradually becoming more popular in 'merica.

oh man!!


"While U.S. professional leagues attract foreign talent in many high-level sports, the strength of football in other parts of the world leads to this reverse migration of talented American players abroad. Just 3 percent of World Cup players are employed by the U.S.’s Major League Soccer. "


http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/06/the-mixed-up-geographic-allegiances-of-world-cup-soccer/372497/

United States was fiercely isolationist for most of its history. It wasn't until WWII that the country really started playing on an international stage and by then all of our favorite sports were pretty much set. Things are changing, Baseball has declined in popularity while Gridiron Football and Basketball have become the forerunners. Association Football was a children's sport for years because the game was easy to teach and the equipment cost was low. It was rarely played beyond the high school level. Association is slowly gaining traction, helped by the immigrants who love the sport and the home-grown fan base. Gridiron and Basketball will be kings for the next fifty years at least, but I could easily see Association in the top five sports, probably at number three if the interest in Baseball continues to wane.

This post is cringeworthy !

I dunno, it made me chuckle :)

because they want to impose what they do and like instead of liking what most people do. It is a brainwashing nation, so it wants everyone to adopt what they do and not the other way around.

Depends on what you mean by "soon". If I was a gambling man, I'd give it 40 years.