Posted on 12/21/2019 8:02:28 AM PST by C19fan
The Women’s World Cup could be played every two years rather than every four if FIFA likes the results of its study. The organization announced Friday it was considering doubling the frequency of soccer’s biggest tournament, which the United States has won the past two cycles.
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FIFA wants the money! The Men’s Championship in Qatar (2022) was worth about $880 million according to some reports / lawsuits. Can you imagine these ‘leaders’ walking away from a revenue stream being doubled?
I’ll say it so we move to the next thread:
F*ck the US Womens Soccer Team. They can go to Hell.
The Men’s Championship in Qatar (2022) was worth about $880 million
I have been at two Womens’ World Cup finals (1999 Rose Bowl, 2019 Lyon) and six opening round games in two other World Cups (2003 D.C., 2015 Montreal) with my daughters. This is all about $$$ for FIFA, as if they don’t have enough already. There is already an increasingly “big” womens’ tournament every “in between” two-year period, the Euros (just like the men).
Well, if it makes money and sells advertising...
The 2018 men’s world cup brought in $400 million total. That was 13 times the amount that the women’s cup brought in.
The chief problem is that you might be able to generate serious attendance in a cup of locations (say Germany) for the women’s games, but the TV bid folks will never pay that much because it’s just not that big for viewers. I watched two games from the women’s games, and will admit that the better teams (say France or Germany or Brazil) have some decent players. Would I pay $100 for a seat at a game? No way. Maybe $12 at the most.
The 2018 men’s world cup brought in $400 million total. That was 13 times the amount that the women’s cup brought in.
Oh joy joy.....have to see and hear about those carpet munching USA haters more frequently......collective insanity.....
This is pointless. When they frame-shifted the summer and winter Olympics so that there is an Olympics every 2 years, it also diluted what was special about the Olympics. This will do the same to the women’s World Cup. I actually think that if they had the women’s World Cup at the same time as the men’s, or at least the same year, it would benefit women’s soccer.
We could put dresses on the mens team and claim they ‘identify’ as women for the summer.
Dikes, trannys, what difference does it make at this point?
How about ‘every day is womens world cup day’.
Do you think that would be enough attention for them?
Prolly not...
What FIFA council not taking in enough bribes ?
yuppers
There is no mass market for this; I think the political grandstanding by some US players was a desperate attempt to draw viewers to a sport that never had broad appeal (here or elsewhere). The few women I know who seriously follow soccer watch men’s soccer.
Any time I’ve flipped through a US women’s national team game in the US, it appears they are playing in empty high school stadiums, with family and friends of the players as the only spectators. The cameras have to avoid panning too high, because occasionally you’d see the empty stands and the few cars in the parking lot behind the fence/wall. When our local men’s pro team (the Metrostars/Red Bulls) had the same problem in Giants Stadium in the NJ Meadowlands, they eventually built a much smaller stadium in a heavily Hispanic area - and now they do OK. Giants Stadium is still used for some of the big international matches, because they couldn’t fit those fans in the smaller stadium.
They certainly couldn’t have them playing at the same time as the men, because they’d have almost 0 viewers. They might try interspersing the games with the men’s (so they aren’t on simultaneously), but I just don’t think people who want the high level of play demonstrated in the men’s World Cup would be satisfied with it.
Years ago a son who follows soccer bought a pack of trading cards (?) for the MLS, and they’d snuck a couple of women players in it. They were simply tossed; not interest at all - and he never bought another pack of cards. It reminded me of involuntarily funding BET or Lifetime with basic cable packages...
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