2022 World Cup Qatar

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England v Ecuador in world cup warm up in Miami. Crowd at about 1/8th stadium capacity. One excellent and top reason that if the 2022 WC is taken from Qatar it most definitely should not be given to the USA! No matter the amount of money to be made from corporate entities and wealthy kingdoms, the World Cup should only be given to nations who have a passion for the game.

it is 3pm on a wednesday afternoon in Miami, people do work there and go to school and college you know so I doubt they will take time off work for an england friendly game..

If you watch MLS you see that the stadiums are almost always full

(04-06-2014 19:06 )Fernandez Esperenda Wrote:  it is 3pm on a wednesday afternoon in Miami, people do work there and go to school and college you know so I doubt they will take time off work for an england friendly game..

If you watch MLS you see that the stadiums are almost always full

Would expect a bigger turnout given that Miami is half full of retired ex pat Brits

(04-06-2014 18:59 )bytor Wrote:  the World Cup should only be given to nations who have a passion for the game.

Average attendances in US sports:

NFL Football - 68,397
MLB Baseball - 30,504
MLS Soccer - 18,594
NHL Ice Hockey - 17,721
NBA Basketball - 17,274


MLS attendances by club (sorted by % capacity):

Seattle Sounders - 40,091 (100% capacity)
Sporting Kansas City - 19,715 (100%)
Toronto FC - 22,591 (100%)
Vancouver Whitecaps - 21,000 (100%)
Montreal Impact - 20,711 (100%)
Portland Timbers - 20,797 (100%)
Real Salt Lake - 20,080 (99.34%)
San Jose Earthquakes - 10,363 (98.46%)
Philadelphia Union - 17,832 (96.39%)
Houston Dynamo - 19,586 (88.87%)
Colorado Rapids - 14,122 (81.05%)
FC Dallas - 16,490 (80.44%)
Chicago Fire - 15,468 (77.34%)
Los Angeles Galaxy - 20,527 (76.02%)
Columbus Crew - 14,802 (73.48%)
New York Red Bulls - 17,850 (70.86%)
NE Revolution - 13,410 (67.05%)
DC United - 12,275 (63.05%)
Chivas USA - 7,504 (39.91%)

(04-06-2014 20:15 )bytor Wrote:  

(04-06-2014 19:06 )Fernandez Esperenda Wrote:  it is 3pm on a wednesday afternoon in Miami, people do work there and go to school and college you know so I doubt they will take time off work for an england friendly game..

If you watch MLS you see that the stadiums are almost always full

Would expect a bigger turnout given that Miami is half full of retired ex pat Brits

I doubt there is 60'000 odd there...

First Sony, and now Adidas are putting pressure on the authorities to do a proper investigation into the Qatar bid. Looks like companies are not wanting to be associated with it as it could damage their own name.

Why would people turn up to watch England play a friendly? I'd rather watch paint dry.

The 1994 World Cup was the best attended in history, with average attendance of nearly 69,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup

(04-06-2014 20:21 )William H Bonney Wrote:  Average attendances in US sports:

NFL Football - 68,397
MLB Baseball - 30,504
MLS Soccer - 18,594
NHL Ice Hockey - 17,721
NBA Basketball - 17,274

It's a big achievement to be ahead of hockey and basketball when the league is only 20 years old.

Those stats mean nothing on popularity, for a start ice NHL is played in indoor arenas and 17,000 is probably on avaerage a full capacity crowd, if the arenas were bigger they would fill out easily...

Same with the NBA crowds and attendances.....