I did not spend much time researching
or writing this, just wanted to rant for a minute and hear your thoughts on
Major League Soccer.
I want to be a fan of the MLS, I really
do. It probably doesn’t help that I live in the Boston sports market where our MLS
team, the New England Revolution is pretty bad and comes in 5th on
the priority list of the Boston media behind the Patriots, Bruins, Red Sox and
Celtics.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with
the Revs. Not sure if it was because the league was new or because we didn’t
have the access to the European leagues we have now, but somewhere along the
way, I just stopped caring about Major League Soccer.
MLS is suffering from an identity
crisis: they don’t know whom they are trying to appeal to—the casual American
sports fan or the true soccer fan. Once MLS realizes that they will never be a
top world soccer league or one of the “big” leagues in the United States, they
could have real success. It’s an entertaining league that develops a lot of
great players for European leagues. It attracts a lot of former greats to end
their careers in the MLS—and there is nothing wrong with that.
No comments:
Post a Comment