2022 World Cup Selection: A Final Case Why the United States Should Host

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Published: December 1, 2010

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Tomorrow, 22 football delegates throughout the world (plus FIFA President Sepp Blatter) will meet in Zurich, Switzerland to make two tremendous decisions that will impact the world for years to come.

Those two decisions will be for the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup's respectively.

For United States soccer fans, this decision could be one of the defining moments for soccer in their country.

Ever since the United States hosted the 1994 World Cup, soccer has grown tremendously in the United States.

Today, soccer is the most played sport in the United States and many of the stars on the United States national team have gone through the youth system known as Project 2010.

From the start of Major League Soccer in 1996, the top flight of American soccer has nearly doubled in size and now has two of the most famous footballers in the world playing in MLS in David Beckham and Thierry Henry.

Internationally, the United States national team has grown tremendously, winning their group for the first time since 1930 in the 2010 World Cup, and defeating Spain 2-0 to reach the 2009 Confederations Cup final.

In the last ten years, Americans have started to become successful overseas and appear to be a strong contender in the upcoming 2014 World Cup.

And American support has followed their nation overseas, buying more tickets than any other nation at the last three World Cup's combined.

In the United States, there were more people who watched the United States loss to Ghana (19.4 million) than the 2009 World Series, and every game of the 2010 NBA Finals except for Game Seven (which drew 28.2 million viewers).

The 2010 World Cup final drew even higher than the United States vs Ghana match, generating an incredible 24.3 million viewers.

From this support, ESPN also had a record amount of viewers use its ESPN 3 service (on line television) and Intern...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - International Football

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