摘要
11月13日,美国纽约宇宙队在最后的点球大战中打败了印第十一人,成功卫冕北美足球联赛冠军。对世界上其他所有拥有足球运动的国家而言,球队的胜利将会令全队欢腾:在乙级联赛中获胜的球队将会在下个赛季中成功升甲。甲级联赛中,他们不仅要面对最为激烈的比赛,同时也会获得一些意外的收益。这些收益来自于高额门票、直播和商品收益。
On November 13th the New York Cosmos won the North American Soccer League (NASL) title, beating the Indy Eleven on penalty kicks in the final. In every other footballplaying country in the world, their triumph would have been cause for outright jubilation: the champions of the second division invariably rise up to the top tier the following season, where they benefit both from the challenge of facing the toughest competition and from the windfall profits associated with higher gate, broadcast and merchandise income. But no such pot of gold awaits the Qosmos, who also claimed the NASL title in 2012, 2013 and 2015. Because Major League Soccer (MLS), the first division, maintains a closed-league structure一de rigueur for American team sports, but unique in the context of global football—all the Cosmos have to look forward to is another year of mediocre opposition and ho-hum revenues. Similarly, no matter how poorly the worst Bam in MLS performs, its slot in the league is never in doubt.
关键词
足球联赛
MLS
职业足球
Football league
MLS
Professional football
