Not just "there".
Across 🇨🇦 in general.
40M ppl, G7 country.
12 US league franchises across "major" sports.
Well, 9 if u remove ⚽ as many might say isn't popular here
Canadians also call #NSL, #CanPL, #CEBL, #CFL minor league
The US sports business model scale is uncompatible
J'ai récemment eu la chance de discuter avec Eric Brunelle, PHD en management, Directeur du pôle du sport au HEC. Je lui ai parlé de 3 sujets:
-Pourquoi personne ici ne veut acheter des franchises de sports?
-Pourquoi on est si retissant à vouloir investir dans le sport en tant que société?
-Que pense-t-il de ceux qui s'opposent au projet du nouveau stade de tennis au parc Jarry?
Je vous invite à écouter ses réponses. @TennisCanada
👉echowave.io/app/watch/8c61FZ…
While I can't really blame those who passionately follow #TFCLive, its remarkable how many fans think this is a "club" in anyway shape or form (even by MLS standards) & not simply the MLS retail access point the ownership sees it as. There are few teams so heavily run by league.
35 players have scored 10 or more in MLS this season & none of them cost their team $30M CAN...
Team America Part 2 not working out this time around for this team...
#TFCLive
I'm not sure why I see this account so much in my "for you feed" but it's proof the algorithm knows how to F with you.
Although it didn't seem like it at first, this account is the personification of "franchise culture". Can't see sport beyond business metrics.
Replying to @FavianRenkel
Ya I would have to respectfully disagree on that. Top college programs draw insanely massive crowds on their own. Getting to play against a team from the NFL would easily bring out 100k fans just from the college.
Legacy Futebol Fan retweeted
While clubs around the world are stripping their crests down to minimalist marketing exercises, it’s refreshing to see Portuguese clubs swimming against the tide and bringing back some of their traditional identity. Sometimes, progress means remembering where you came from 💪🏻
Why doesn't he get a shot at #CanWNT?
The #NSL coach of the year award is heading to @AFC_Toronto's Marko Milanovic - again!
bit.ly/3UsG7XK
Imagine getting into something like this, where franchise value is flattening, operating budget been negative entire lifecycle (even at lowest roster spend last 4 years + controlling stadium) & also dealing with this North American anti club mentality.
#SaveTheImpact in #CanPL
Lançons des idées folles sur le #cfmtl.
Les Saputo vendent à PKP et il installe les deux clubs de football au Big O. Les Roses et le Supra s’installent au nouveau Stade Quebecor. TVA sport (désolé @Olivier_Brett) devient le diffuseur soccer avec l’ensemble des matchs)
🇨🇦 has already embraced this philosophy w/ pro sports:
"From a North American resource allocation perspective, actually, its quite terrible to have Canadians investing their limited capital in domestic pro sports leagues when it could all be concentrated in US leagues instead."
OneSoccer probably wants to be within an existing Sports package. If not this whole fight will yield a very tiny slice of what they were hoping for.
#CanPL
It must be Halloween: Rogers and OneSoccer have agreed on something!
Sort of.
#CanPL | #CanMNT
bit.ly/4sxwvHL
Ooof...
BREAKING: World's largest crypto exchange Binance hacked with over $5.6 billion stolen:
• $1.45 billion $BTC
• $875 million $ETH
• $234 million $TRX
• $50 million $XAUT
• $1.57 billion $USDT
• $823 million $USDC
• $75 million $WBETH
• $88.5 million $RLUSD
+ $447.5 million additional cryptocurrencies
This is the largest hack in crypto history.
Any country in the world where clubs fold at this rate?
Rest of the world combined?
Maybe they're right...
The sport just isn't popular...
😅😘
Two USL League One clubs — Westchester SC and Corpus Christi FC — have folded, sources tell @Backheeled.
@league1updater had detail earlier this week.
10 different USL clubs have now either folded or gone on hiatus since 2023.
More ⤵️
backheeled.com/sources-usl-l…
Legacy Futebol Fan retweeted
I’m not sure what I’m more surprised about 😅
That former Atlético Ottawa & CPLer Malcolm Shaw is in Afghanistan playing football at Arman FC (alongside several other Canadians!) 🇨🇦🇦🇫
Or that Afghanistan has some decent broadcast & stadium in comparison to AFC standards?





























