After watching the World Cup six months ago from South Africa, I could definitely notice several things happening here in Boston as a result of the the world cup. From personal experience watching the World Cup myself, I think these changes that have occurred are for the better.
First of all, I have noticed that in all of a sudden, people here in Boston were passionate about soccer. This reason is not only because of the frenzy caused by the US national team competing in the world cup, it is also because here in New England, we have our own professional soccer franchise, the New England Revolution. This team is proving to be a team that can compete with the rest of the Boston teams for media coverage and highlight time when the MLS season is in full swing.
Soccer is one of the sports that is in my opinion uniting the world in a way that no other world currently being played around the world. Aside from the professional leagues around the world and the World Cup, the game is also an Olympic sport. This speaks volumes on having a unifying sport being played in a sports competition in which is meant to bring the world together for three weeks or so they can compete with each other for medals and perhaps national bragging rights along the process. The World Cup is also another competition in which brings together each country's national teams (for soccer) for a month-long competition. Which, any soccer player around the world would tell you they would dream of represent their home country by playing on the national team that happens to be competing in the World Cup. What I would miss about the World Cup the most is not the hype or the commercialization placed around it; it would mostly be the way the world just seems to get together in one country to play one common sport that is played all over the world. I just we all treat each other the way all of the time as we do during that one month every four years.
In fact, Soccer is going to be the sport, which in my opinion would replace Baseball in the future in this country. I can even see it in the numbers lately, that more kids are going out for Soccer than for Baseball. Also, at the same time, the interest level of Baseball is going down at the same the interest level for Soccer is going up. I can't see it as much here in Boston as the Red Sox are still selling out but I do see the soccer fan coming out in most Boston sports fans as attendance at Revs games have steadily gone up over the past couple of years.
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