How far would you drive to watch professional soccer?

12 hours, even more depending on how much time off I have.

 

hmmm...if it were a really big game or another team i really like such as holland, i guess to orlando, farther if i could get friends to go. orlando is around 200+ mi away from ft lauderdale. so its like a 3 hour ride.

 

wow, thats devotion!

 

LA and san diego arent that far from where i live so i would catch a good game over there if i really wanted to see the game i would drive as fas as to san fransisco which is about 7 hours from where i live

 

My personal longest drive so far has been straight to Milan without sleep, stay for a day and see the game at night to drive straight back to A'dam afterwards. I've never been so happy about being an inexperienced driver... I didn't have to drive

Btw, Milan and the highways surrounding it are a real b.i.a.t.c.h...

Isn't flying a better option in the US?

 

Furthest I've driven is probably from Amsterdam to Munich to watch England beat Germany 5-1.

Also drove from London to Sunderland for the Turkey game - seemed like we were going to the end of the universe.

 

Don't know about drive, but a while back I travelled from San Francisco to Wembley to see a playoff final. Well worth it!!

 

last year, i drove from kc to barcelona to see a game!!!

 

I drove from Cleveland to Syracuse to Rochester to Cleveland for an A-League double header. That's about 300 miles one way.

 

My team is gone forever, but I drive all over Florida to watch the US mens team. I have flown from Tampa to New England for pro soccer several times.

 

300 miles would be very close

 

I won't drive more than 70 miles for an MLS or A-League game. I'll drive 1000 miles for any game that counts in the big Euro leagues (EPL, Football League,Bundesliga...) Brazilian, Mexican, or Argentine leagues as long as they are i the US or Canada. But since those leagues will never play a game that counts in those countires the opportunity will never come up. I'll drive 300 miles for an exhibition as long as they are big teams (ManU, Madrid) or West Ham. Other than that screw it, I'll watch it on TV.

 

Back in Germany, being a Borussia Dortmund fan living down in Bavaria, I regularly drove over 300 miles to see BVB play at the Westfalenstadion. I can't say that I'd regularly do it for MLS soccer. I've done it once so far (San Antonio to Dallas) and I didn't particularly enjoy the match. Would do it for the national team though. Did make it to the April 28, 2004 match against Mexico.




Keith

 

My wife and i drive from Tampa to Miami for matches all the time.
We use to drive down to Ft.Lauderdale to watch the Miami Fusion .
Just last weekend we drove over to Orlando to watch Orlando Ajax vs.
the Cocoa Expos.
The farthest we driven is to Charleston South Carolina to watch the
Battery play.

 

Drove from San Francisco bay area to Los Angeles (380 miles) last summer to see ManUtd vs. Club America in a Champions' World friendly. Will be flying from San Francisco to New Jersey soon to see ManUtd vs. AC Milan in another Champions' World friendly.

Of course the family vacations were/will be accomodated around these trips. So, it's not like these trips are exclusively for the matches.

Haven't travelled long distances for the US national team yet, but have attended their matches whenever they're in the area. I guess what makes me travel these distances for ManUtd is because those are once-a-year chances to attend their matches. (Can't fly to Europe, no.) If the US national team played only 1 match per year in the US, I would travel such long distances for them too.

 

Yeah, that's the farthest I've driven.

 

I drove from Sacramento to LA for MLS cup 2003. USMNT I'd drive about that far for as well. I wouldn't do it for a worthless preseason game between two teams from another country however. If they want my money, they better come to me.

 

I drive 250+ to see the Burn play...I would drive 1000 to watch the Nats.

 

We go a little over 300 miles to see the Rapids*, we will be going 600 miles this weekend to see Bayern Munich (and some English team).

* Okay, they didn't look like a professional team last Saturday, they'll be back, I think, I hope ...

 

I've driven to KC from Peoria, and tomarrow I will be driving from Chicago to Columbus. Both trips take about 6 hours or so, give or take a bit. Both matches are to see the Chicago Fire.

 

I've driven from New York to Raleigh NC to watch 2 preseason matches fro Dundee FC last July . Got to go out drinking with the team on their last night in the States

 

And a match in San Diego would be just about at the 12-hour point for me.