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Limited U.S. interest in the World Cup
By Marion Hohlfeld
By Marion Hohlfeld
A De Anza College student skimmed
through La Voz Weekly, the school’s student newspaper, finding the latest
baseball and basketball news, but no 2014 FIFA World Cup related stories.
“American football, basketball, and baseball
take precedent over soccer,” said 22-year-old anthropology major Mariah Fowler
during lunch last Wednesday.
Fowler would be one of the
two-thirds of Americans who do not plan to follow this year’s tournament, according
to an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll.
De Anza college students who spoke
out on the topic had similar perceptions. More than half of the interviewees
said they will not follow the event.
Andrew Boyce, 26, a marketing major,
said he is planning to watch the world cup cheering for the United States and
Chile.
“I think many people think of it (soccer)
as un-American and therefore don't play or watch it,” he said Friday.
Although only a few Americans will
tune in when the U.S. men's soccer team lines up in Brazil to play their first
game, their Hispanic American counterparts will watch Klinsmann’s guys.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that
one-third of Latin-Americans will be following the tournament or some teams
closely.
Anthony Abass, 30, former De Anza
student and now general manager for McDonald’s, used to play for the school’s
men’s soccer team. He would not want to miss any minute of the world cup.
“Growing up with soccer brought families
together,” he said. “It has been part all of my life.”
Abass, America born Nigerian, will root
for all African teams and thought that Nigeria will win the tournament.
“I believe in the (Nigerian) head coach
(Stephen Keshi),” he said.
Although a couple of De Anza students
knew a lot about the event that will start Thursday, eighty-six percent of
Americans surveyed in the poll knew nothing or only a little bit about the
World Cup, according to the study.
Swedish student Emelie Fransson, 25, an
athletic injury care major, was aware of Brazil being this year’s host country.
She also grew up watching and playing soccer, she said Wednesday afternoon.
Both Fransson and 26-year-old nursing
major Xiomara Rosado believe that the host will take home the trophy.
“They (the Brazilian soccer team) are
(is) better than any other team,” Rosado said. “And they have home field advantage,”
Fransson added.
“That will play a crucial key for a team
that has proven themselves over and over again to be the best in the world,”
she said.
Not everyone agreed with them. Kinesiology
major Isaac Leong, 19, said that Argentina will win for sure because they have
Lionel Messi, who is the best player in the world in his opinion.
Leong explained America’s lack of
interest in soccer as “just not being mainstream.”
About 1,400 adult Americans had responded
from April 7-11 in the still ongoing Reuters/Ipsos online poll.
Fowler said that she was enjoying
sports, but soccer was never that popular.
“I don’t actively keep up with a lot of
sports,” she said. “But I do love to watch them if they are already on TV.”
Two in three Americans do not plan to follow soccer's World Cup
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/14/us-worldcup-usa-poll-idUSBREA3D12A20140414Thursday, June 5, 2014
De Anza College's student paper, La Voz Weekly, covered the 2014 World Cup as well saying that "Americans don't care about soccer." Read more here:
http://www.lavozdeanza.com/sports/2014/05/25/dont-expect-anything-from-team-usa/
http://www.lavozdeanza.com/sports/2014/05/25/dont-expect-anything-from-team-usa/
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Ipsos/Reuters Poll: World Cup
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
These are findings from an Ipsos poll conducted for Thomson Reuters from April 7-11, 2014. For the surveys, a sample of 1,416 Americans 18+ were interviewed online. The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.0 percentage points. For more information about credibility intervals, please see the appendix.
The data were weighted to the U.S. current population data by gender, age, education, and ethnicity. Statistical margins of error are not applicable to online polls. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error and measurement error. Figures marked by an asterisk (*) indicate a percentage value of greater than zero but less than one half of one per cent. Where figures do not sum to 100, this is due to the effects of rounding. To see more information on this and other Reuters/Ipsos polls, please visit
http://polling.reuters.com/#!response/TM272Y14/type/day/dates/20140401-20140604
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