Messi Mania: Will Bringing Soccer's 'G.O.A.T.' Change Major League Soccer's Rep?
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🗓️ 23 July 2023
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However, international soccer superstar Lionel Messi joining the Inter Miami might be the boost the league needs.
NPR's Scott Detrow reports on the impact of Messi coming to the MLS and what the league's future could be.
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| 0:00.0 | A few nights ago producer Brianna Scott and I went to Washington DC's Navy yard. |
| 0:08.4 | It was hot, it was humid, but there was a lot of excitement. |
| 0:16.1 | Thousands of sports fans were there in this neighborhood that just a few years ago hosted |
| 0:19.8 | the World Series. |
| 0:21.2 | This crowd was focused on soccer and headed into the home of DC's major league soccer |
| 0:26.2 | team the United to watch the league's all-star game. |
| 0:29.3 | As rabbit as many of the fans were about soccer, they acknowledged that here in the US this |
| 0:33.7 | kind of scene is still kind of a rarity. |
| 0:36.3 | America is considered the best when it comes to the majority of sports, basketball hockey, |
| 0:41.7 | baseball, football, lacking in soccer though sorry. |
| 0:45.7 | Isaac DiOrio is one of the many soccer fans we spoke to as they headed into the all-star |
| 0:50.2 | game. |
| 0:51.2 | A squad made up of the best players in the league was taking on one of the English premier |
| 0:54.8 | league's most storied clubs, Arsenal. |
| 1:03.0 | Many of the people we spoke to were clearly avid soccer fans like Patrick Fleming and |
| 1:07.5 | his dad Chris. |
| 1:08.9 | I think that the world community of soccer is something so special that is nothing compared |
| 1:13.3 | to us. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, I mean I always told him it doesn't matter where you are in the world you can always |
| 1:17.3 | find a game. |
| 1:18.3 | That's soccer. |
| 1:19.3 | That's soccer. |
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