[lom bylyri]

Originally <a href='https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=27268069'>posted</a> on 10/10/2017:

It's not about not watching the whole tourney
I'm talking about the games Argentina will play in if he wasn't there. Do you go to bars during the tourney? Star power attracts more viewers. Why do you think the big soccer nations have all the seeding weighted in their favor? So they can all advance deep and avoid knocking each other out. Obviously I will watch the tourney regardless of which nations are there cause I love the game but I think you might have missed the last tourney. The final which Argentina was in was the highest viewed Match ever. I can assure you if Argentina was replaced by Holland that would not have been the case.

The ratings get influenced either up or down by only the casual fan. If you consider yourself a true soccer fan you don't miss the World Cup with or without Messi. What can I tell you. If you never lived in one of these countries you can not understand. This notion " die hard " fan doesn't exist in the soccer crazy world, outside the US. You either are a football ( soccer) fan or you are not. There is nothing in between. Casual soccer fans are only in US of A. I hope I'm not being too confusing, but it is a totally different way of thinking or perception of being a fan in the USA and a soccer fan outside the continent. I've experienced both.

[lom bylyri]

When did I nominate this without me knowing ? Damn, I think I'm good ...