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I'll add another reason why Univision coverage is better: passionate, well-informed announcers.

The American sportscasters are too young (Wyanlda, Balboa, Lalas) or uninformed (O'Brien, Musburger). I find it humorous these announcers are critical of the WC players that beat them in the past. They laugh at Ronaldo for being to fat, but he's the top WC scorer ever and he took the US team to school in their last match.

ESPN/ABC coverage has been awful and just downright *boring*

On another note - I see soccer at capitalistic, not socialist. Some of the top paid athletes in the world play soccer. Fans are spending huge amounts of cash at the venues. There is a reason why Malcom Glazer (Tampa Bucs owner) just bought a professional soccer team.

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O'Brien and Balboa are simply terrible, and Brent Musburger is too full of himself to notice that his halftime program (because of the 95% to 5% commercial to content ratio) is worthless.

The whole "soccer is socialist" argument is insulting to the intelligence. Doubly so to the person making it.

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... Some of the top paid athletes in the world play soccer. ...

Yes, thats as I understand it. Plus, there are more professsional 'soccer' leagues than there are professional 'football' teams, and talented players can shop their skills in any of these leagues. I would guess that it is easier to find a team in 'soccer' than it is in American football.

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I'll add another reason why Univision coverage is better: passionate, well-informed announcers.

You watch Univision for your reasons, I'll watch it for mine: