Soccer, World Cup and Detroit

[emu steve]

There apparently has been a lot of World Cup fever throughout major parts of the United States, esp areas with very diverse populations.

Good amount of interest in Detroit? Is this story indicative?

http://www.freep.com/article/2014061...na-jeff-seidel

This year's World Cup may get a lot of folks who are luke warm on soccer to re-evaluate their future perspective on the sport, esp. the future of pro soccer in Detroit.

I'd love to see some metrics [[e.g., television viewers in the U.S. AND DETROIT) for this World Cup and say the last five World Cups.

This is a sport with excellent growth potential and I'd think Detroit would really want to move toward being a part of big time pro soccer if there are really indications that the population of S.E. Michigan is conductive to soccer [[folks in D.C. are going crazy over the World Cup as the area is 'more diverse than the United Nations').

Detroit can try to get with it now or wait 10 - 15 years and by then it will be much, much harder to get a franchise once the sport has matured and fully expanded...

This may be O/T and wild speculation but the NFL might face a less than rosy future because of issues like concussions [[doesn't seem much of a problem with the college game and college players only play a few years) and maybe in 20 or 30 years futbol might really be ascending while the NFL might be past its prime. [[I can see a changing picture of college football, NFL, and futbol).