Ligue 1 Matches May End Up In U.S. To Bolster Media Deal
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France’s top flight is in the final season of its media rights deals and wants to boost its financial value exponentially with new contracts.
  • ro-row@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    what is the “regular season” in football? Surely it’s just the season

  • marqui4me@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    PSG has definitely gotten a grip in the US market at least in terms of visibility and recognition. I see lots of kids with PSG gear even though they may not follow the team closely.

  • goblue2354@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    As opposed to cup games, preseason friendlies, etc.

    ‘Regular season’ adds more context to people only really familiar with American sports as well (though I’m not sure how many American’s unfamiliar with European leagues would be clicking on an article about Ligue 1 in the first place).

  • AJ_CC@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I don’t think it would go that well, PSG’s really the only French team that could draw a half decent crowd in the US, otherwise you’re probably looking at Mazatlan-Juarez repeats.

    • GP3ElPresidente@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      If its in Montreal then u could say both PSG and Marseille would be able to draw in a large crowd probably

  • Cerxa@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Ligue 1 still chasing the lost revenue from its deal with mediapro that went sour. Was a record deal and they had all planned for it accordingly, and going from 20 to 18 teams was an attempt to fix their finances. It’s still on its way back but this isn’t the way

  • GP3ElPresidente@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If its in Montreal then u could say both PSG and Marseille would be able to draw in a large crowd probably

  • Always_bricked_up@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    What about fans ? They will have to travel from France to USA to watch their own team in a regular season ? This is stupid

  • Impossible_Wonder_37@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Swear Spain and France will do anything to fast track their way to money instead of investing in the rest of the clubs in their league and marketing it properly. Instead they just suck off the 3 clubs they care about who already have all the money.

  • Mulderre91@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Given that people consider it a Farmers League - let’s send some matches to Idaho or Iowa.

    In all seriousness, who has thought that this could be a good idea? No league has done that, and the only time Spanish League did that, nobody liked it.