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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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Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:17:00 -0800 The US national soccer team - Why they cannot win the world cup by Soccer Stores http://soccerstores.posterous.com/the-us-national-soccer-team-why-they-cannot-w http://soccerstores.posterous.com/the-us-national-soccer-team-why-they-cannot-w

One of the biggest problems that the US national soccer team experiences when they play an international soccer game out of the US is the fact that it will always be played on a grass field. This will make is very difficult for the US soccer player due to the fact that most of the MLS (Major League Soccer) games are being played on a turf field which is very different then the grass field. When you play on a turf field it is much easier for the player to control the ball, dribble or kick a long pass that will reach the expected target. I think that until there is a world standard to play on a turf field – it will be better if the MLS will require that the games will be on a grass field so the players will get use to play ob such a field and will not need to do any adjustment when they play and international game out of the US.

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