Welcome. We are students in Communications 218, a journalism class at Lehman College. Our classroom is in Room 122. This course is part of the Summer Arts Festival of College Now, a program designed to help high school students earn college credits. Every day, we report and write articles about our program, the school and the neighborhood.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

David Beckham: The Savior of Major League Soccer?



By: Aquib Ali, Ericka Aguilar, Tamesh Sukul, Jean Kapkanoff

Bronx, July 19 - Despite recent media focus on American soccer -which David Beckham’s summer 2007 debut as a player for the L.A. Galaxy helped to generate - the game itself still seems to be lost on most
American sports fans.
In this country, soccer has is as popular as tube socks.
Soccer ratings are abysmal. Even the game of poker enjoys more exposure; ESPN has been airing the world series of poker over soccer. The highest rating for a soccer game was recorded at an astonishing 0.25 percent and 215,242 households: a Metrostars-Fire game on June 22, 2007. To put this in perspective, one-tenth of the Bronx were viewers of this game. Unless it’s the World Cup, nobody is really interested, said Omar Morton, who grew up with the sport in Ghana. However, statistics show that even after last year’s World Cup, held in Germany, people in America are not big fans of the world’s most popular sport.
Everyone has his own perception of the game, but few have
even basic knowledge of it. When asked how many players are on each
team, “20?” and “8?” were answers students Justin Rosario and Carol
Fernandez gave.
Jay Gurka, a soccer referee, believes that David
Beckham’s arrival in the U.S. is “a positive step for American soccer.” Gurka stated that there aren’t many personalities in soccer and that’s probably why soccer isn’t popular. It’s hard to focus on
soccer when you have baseball, basketball, and hockey,” Gurka said.
Fernandez said she would rather watch and play baseball. “I remember
something about a red card,” Fernandez said, making it clear that she
had no further knowledge of the sport.
Whether or not Americans will become more interested
in soccer as a major sport depends on several factors, as John Cicero, a security guard for the Lehman College campus, points out. Cicero asserts that older
people who grew up fans of more traditional American sports like baseball and football, will probably not develop much interest in soccer. Younger sports fans,
however, may be more open to watching, and even playing, soccer. When asked if he would be interested in attending a soccer game, Cicero said, “No, I’m not
a soccer fan. I’d rather have Yankee tickets.”

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