Soccer Game popularity in USA - How to make the game more popular and covered
In order to make soccer game more popular in the US it should be available and covered by national TV.
Like many soccer fans, I always wish that the US TV channels will broadcast much more soccer games from the MLS (Major League Soccer) and other soccer leagues such as the La Liga (Spanish soccer league) Premier league (English soccer league) and Bundesliga (Germany soccer league). It looks like the biggest challenge that TV channels or networks are facing is the fact that there are not as many breaks during soccer game as in other popular sports and therefore much less time for commercials. In 95% of the soccer games there is only one break (half time) for 15 minutes. According to the soccer game rules - the game is divided into 2 half time of45 minutes each and during the game time it is very hard to display the commercial.
I think that if the game should be divided into 4 periods of 22.5 minutes each it will give the TV channels more time for commercials and will encourage them to broadcast more soccer games which will definitely make the soccer game more popular in the US.
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