He was about 19 when MLS started. So I can't imagine how it was his childhood dream. But outside of that good for him. Decent amount of publicity for the team and league and hes a generally like-able guy (or so I feel) so if anything its good to have a guy like him promoting the league.
Probably not MLS, but maybe "professional soccer player" was his childhood dream. From what I read he loved the sport as a kid, but went for American football because there wasn't an option for him to play soccer professionally and football is pretty lucrative.
It's interesting because one of the arguments about soccer in the USA is that we need to attract the all-around good athletes to have a strong team...does just the existence of a league at all mean that the next Ochocinco won't have to give up the sport in high school?
I think it might help a little but in the end for a lot of people its going to be about the money, and which sport someone feels they can make more at. So will there be a few more guys who in the past weren't coming to soccer because of that? yeah, but as long as a developmental player still make about 20k a year the amount of kids just wont be that big
Oh, definitely. But if you really love the sport, the $20k and the dream of playing in the big leagues in Europe is better than the nothing that existed before MLS. There wasn't even the option for the $20k before. I might be reading too much into it, but Ochocinco seems to be the kind of guy who that would have been enough for, had it been an option when he was younger.
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It's interesting because one of the arguments about soccer in the USA is that we need to attract the all-around good athletes to have a strong team...does just the existence of a league at all mean that the next Ochocinco won't have to give up the sport in high school?
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NOT SURE IF WANT.
IT WOULD BE SO TROLLY THO.
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