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Analyze why most fans are against having a North American sports model.

The main reason why the North American model is opposed is that the commercial atmosphere is too strong, for example, the NBA is now becoming more and more like an exhibition game, etc., as well as all kinds of strange data. By contrast, the European soccer leagues, although there is also an element of acting, but the overall view is still centered on competition.

The European model is based on a large soccer population brought about by fan participation. The mainstream soccer powerhouses in Europe, England, Iberia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Croatia, Russia, etc., can basically account for more than 1% of the country's total population in terms of the number of their registered playersOur number of registered players seems to be less than ten thousand.

Any kind of highly professionalized sport needs to maintain the connection from the top professional tournaments to the grassroots semi-professional tournaments, and for soccer this connection is the lift system at all levels of the leagues, and the connection from the regional semi-professional leagues to the top national leagues and club tournaments at the continental level must be kept open, this is the lifeblood of professional sports. American-style professional leagues leave the grassroots part of the sport to campus education using the draft to connect the pro game to the grassroots.

The European model builds the professional system into a very large professional pyramid system, and even if people abroad don't watch the secondary leagues, the secondary leagues have huge fan bases, and the secondary leagues, while serving as the soil for the top leagues, have the potential to eat more profit as elevators because elevation also brings a higher level of attention to the secondary leagues! Soccer is a business, but soccer is not all business.

The giants attract the lion's share of overseas attention, but what many European fans love, are the teams on their own doorsteps, which have a business component, but are more of an identity, a belief. I'm a fan of Manchester United, which used to be a working class team with a deep working man's imprint, but the arrival of the Glazer family turned the team into a purely business team. After the Glazer family took over, many disgruntled United fans formed their own "United" club as a continuation of the team's tradition and class identity, and my home team in Goalie has always been United.