But all the cool leagues are doing it. You wouldn't want to be considered uncool, would you? Would you? http://nasl.com/
ok, that's 73 million from tickets only. now add in the (higher then current if we have those numbers) TV money, shirt sponsor money, league sponsor money, international tv rights money, etc.
Why does Steven Lenhart look so small in that picture? Is he going to get Benjamin Button on us over the next 10 years?
really dipshit. it's always good to know what your talking about before you start talking shit. http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/61013
this is a joke, right? the USA is ranked 13 on the Human Development Index (the first 12 are all euro countries except canada, australia and japan). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index http://www.marketingcharts.com/topi...as-best-standard-of-living-niger-worst-10652/
MP and Silva doesn't sound Canadian. is that Central America? or is that for the National team and they threw MLS in as an extra? I follow MLS but dang who outside the USA would, even Americans living outside the USA would probably watch it online. Maybe MP and Silva is an on-line company, that could be good, TV over the internet is the future.
Well there are like 50 countries in Europe, some of them have very low living standards, so on average his comment would be right. 10 have higher rankings, 40 have lower ranking But to his point, the CAP would have to be over 50 million before the good European players would come to MLS. With a 10 Million CAP (with or with out DPs?) teams could not afford the biggest names. NJRB needs to find a way to get under the CAP next year, they will have to trade draft picks or players for allocation money.
rights for MLS only and it covers all MLS games, tournaments and events, including MLS regular season, playoffs, the cup match superliga, interliga, and the pan-pacific championship. InterLiga is the only non-MLS competition included in the deal. what does canada have to do with this? anyway, if your interested in the company: i recommend you brush up on some base facts. you might be shocked and amazed at how many countries MLS is broadcast in. MP & Silva are a very accomplished international sports media rights business. they valued MLS international rights at 10+ million dollars. if that doesn't tell you most of what you need to know...
So they got the rights from SUM so they can sell them in the future for what they expect is going to be 10 Million? that is what I got from the article, if it is true then those dudes are very smart investors, it does not say how much they paid for the rights to 2013.
the sell the rights to individual broadcasters across the globe. i may be wrong on this point, but i believe it's minimum 10 million for the 5 years of rights. so if it is just 10mill, say 2mill a year, with their rights ending in 2013. for an example of the international broadcasting, schelotto created interest in argentina, and games are aired there.
If you added all 12 of those nations' population together you would barely hit the U.S. population and if you eliminate japan you barely get half. How do the countries with the majority of the top universities in the world rank 13 and 21 respectively on a "human development" index? Not to mention you could most likely find pockets of the U.S. population that would have a much higher index than any of those countries. (the per capita GDP/literacy rate is obviously much higher in the NYC area than West Virginia.) http://www.usnews.com/articles/educ...0/02/25/worlds-best-universities-top-400.html rant over.
And? If a country don't have 300 million people it really don't count, or? The truth is that there is very little difference between having a HDI score 0,97 and 0,93 and no top earning soccer player would ever notice the difference, they live in the good neighbourhoods, they kids go to good schools and they don't have to think about unemployment benefits, acces to health care or child welfare. The argument that the U.S.'s relative wealth could be used as a levy to sign European - not talking about Moldovans, Armenians and Belarussians, but "Old European" - players is bollocks. Complete and utter nonsense. Because America, all it's splendor and glory untold, is a very divided country with a whole lot of people who are un- or undereducated, poor and has bad access to health care. And largely, but not entirely, because the rating system is made to rank U.S. schools and the universities in other countries are - different. Yes, and you could find many places in and around London, Southern France, Bavaria in Germany or Northern Italy that would make Loudoun County, VA look poor. Don't get me wrong. The U.S. is a very nice place, some parts of it extremely beautiful, but it has its flaws.
This. Also, no way MLS overtakes MLB in 10 years... 0 chance. Won't take over the NBA either... Possibly the NHL but neither of those two. Obviously MLS is not going to touch the NFL, it never will. MLS is absolutely on the way up and everything said above will happen by 2020. Only thing I can see possibly coming by 2020 not on your list is relegation/promotion but I doubt it. I would also add that youth academies will become far more advanced and should house all the best young Americans (including many of the guys that will be a part of the 2022 World Cup Champions for the host nation of the US of A) as well as players of other nationalities coming to play here...
The NHL Is projected to have revenues in the 4 billion range by 2020. If it over takes the NHL that would be the most amazing sports growth in US history...maybe even bigger then the NFL's growth... going from a 3 mil salary cap to 70-80 million in 10 years with 4 billion in revenue and tens of millions of fans. that would be insane..and make MLS the biggest soccer league world wide...unless the EPL can grow a lot the next 10 years