Why this World Cup is Important and Why Should We Care

As the initial blog post of the part of Charlies Sportslist that I talk about a topic that is currently trending on the internet, the World Cup. Last match in the round of 16, the US Mens Nations Team got eliminated from the tournament by a more experienced soccer nation Belgium. However in a loss, it is always important to find the silver linings of things and get positives out of a bad situation, generally, it's being optimistic.

As America, we generally are built as a society to play the other Football, American Football and not Futbol. As early as 5 or 6 kids are in a Pop Warner System and throughout School our make up and popularity is based on how good your school is at Football. College Football funds all other sports because their isn't enoug revenue generated in eat sport to support it in itself, thus the Psychology 101.

Sidebar - Psyche 101 is a theory that every college student must take Psyche 101 and because of this requisite, the funding and the revenue can go toward teachers to teach other parts of the major which cannot self support its major. 

American culture does not like being bad at things, we are not a country of patience anymore due to the recent trends of technology giving us what we need instantly and right now. As our society is trending toward being a Popcorn culture, patience and development is something that is truly now a virtue and becoming great in a sport with a Major Professional history of 19 years as compared to 100+ years in other countries in Europe.

So what is important is that we made it into the Round of 16 for two consecutive World Cups, this shows that we do belong with the other majors of the sport, however we are not the favorite. As Football continues to get the bad press on concussions with their athletes and games, this is driving the parents to reconsider a sport that they signed their kids up to release their energy and run around. You can relate the rise in EDM music because it is a global niche genre of music to soccer and how that genre is producing mass concerts and revenues and people now want to experience an international beat in lieu of Rap, Hip Hop and Top 40. If you research Spotify, you can try and dig up any Top 40 domestic artist and see if if can trump Avicii, the European DJ who produced Wake Me Up which is the most streamed song on Spotify ever with over 250,000,000 streams.

In conclusion, this World Cup is important because it showed us that we belong in this tournament with the big boys of the world. If we want to dominate this sport like we want to dominate everything else I think the youth movement and the exposure of Fox and ESPN will only fuel the new generation into a growing sport domestically and we can make history in the World Cups to come. We have always prided ourselves as a nation to never be average and to outwork everyone so next World Cup I expect the US Men's National team to not only make the knockout rounds but to make some noise in the tournament!

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Charlie Seanez