Popularity and worldwide potential of the NYCFC

Spinning off from the thread on NYCFC 2015 Attendance, with the big-name (albeit aging) signings by the 2 expansion sides in 2015 (NYCFC: Villa, Lampard; OCSC: Kaka), expectations are likely to be sky-high for both teams.


Am wondering if any of them may actually win trophies/conference during their first season(s) of play (the kind of blazing starts that Chicago/Houston/Seattle have enjoyed in 1998/2006-08/2009-11, respectively).

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Let's vote here!!

http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads...r-any-trophies-in-2015.2009647/#post-30902835

 

359K now...

Dedicated Thread:
http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/teams-facebook-ranking.1357221/page-19#post-30888195

 

Lets not get ahead of our selves.

 

Somebody has to be realistic. LOL.

 

Maybe off topic or maybe not. What's with the lack of coverage in the Times? I'm in town visiting relatives and was stunned by the tiny mention in the Sunday Times of Saturday's NYFC and NYRB games. The Washington Post probably had more coverage. Wha's that all about?

 

It is New York... They've got approximately 5 bajillion pro teams and another 10 bajillion other things to do... Minor teams like NYCFC and NYRB aren't going to get coverage...

 

Your reply reveals a lot about the City of Seattle if the only criterion for caring about soccer is lack of other things to do. Now bug off until you have an MLS Cup to your credit.

This is a serious question for New Yorkers - is MLS coverage in the print media always so bad, and if so, is it a detriment to the success of the NY clubs? Down here in DC the Post's soccer writer Steven Goff does a good job of keeping United in the news.

 

Compared to New York? Yes. Seattle has nothing to do.. I also enjoy the moving goal posts on when Sounders fans get to be snarky. When we first joined the league it was bug off until you've won some silverware. Well, we won USOC that year (thanks, btw). It then became "You've only won one trophy, bug off until you've won two." We then turned USOC into the Sounders Invitational by making it to the finals in 4 of the next 5 competitions and winning three of them.. It then became, "No one cares about USOC, bug off until you've won the Supporters' Shield or MLS Cup." Well, we won SS last season, so I guess it makes sense the goal posts have moved to include only MLS Cup... What are you going to move the goal posts to when the Sounders win the MLS Cup?

All that being said... Any Red Bull fan will tell you that the New York media doesn't pay attention to MLS.. Some are even saying that NYCFC is getting more attention this season than NYRB ever got..

 

Sleepless, I'll grant that I brought on your Seattle defensiveness with the comment about lack of MLS Cups. But when you call the NY clubs "minor teams" it denigrates all of MLS. And Seattle, of all clubs, shouldn't be calling its own league minor until it's mastered it.

 

The dominant sports media entity in New York is not any newspaper, but all-sports radio station WFAN. That station carries the matches of NYCFC; but if a caller should try to mention the team -- or any soccer -- to the station's talk hosts, that caller will be laughed at, insulted, and quickly dispatched.

 

DCU doesn't push the Redskins and Nationals off the front page but it gets decent coverage in all media. The new stadium story gets lots of coverage.

 

Because the hosts on that station don't consider soccer a major sport.

The station caters primarily to people who hate soccer; its audience consists of the type of backward-minded American fan who will never accept the fact that soccer now has a place amongst the major sports in the U.S., and who will become angry at anyone who dares to discuss the sport.

 

Not bad considering it was posted 18 months before the team's first game.