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.
  • marqui4me@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year 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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    1 year 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).

  • Cerxa@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year 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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    1 year ago

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

  • AJ_CC@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year 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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      1 year ago

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

  • Inter_Mirifica@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s a wild extrapolation of a random executive saying they have to bring “games that matter” to the US in an empty sales pitch to attract US broadcasters to buy Ligue 1 rights.

    If anything, that sounds a lot more like the Supercup trophy, that is already played abroad anyway.

    No way fans let this happen.

    • av1997f@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Ez, bring back the Coupe Drago and have it played in exotics places, during the CdF games.

      Or create like a Coupe des Clubs Champions (de l1) where you have the past winners play where there used to be 4 more matchdays, like either you start L1 in September/last W-E of August and have that in the US (it’s 4 matchs) or just before/after international breaks (not the entire competition at once in that case)