World Cup soccer tournament. 16 teams playing the next few days to get to the top 8. Advancing thus far to the round of top 8 teams...... -- Brazil -- Columbia -- Netherlands USA plays Belgium on Tuesday afternoon. Tournament bracket..... fifa/worldcup/matches/index.html . . Structure of the World Cup Soccer Tournament…… The soccer World Cup tournament is once every 4 years. Teams play in the years in between to qualify for the next one. The top 32 teams get to play in the tournament. To start the tournament, the top 32 teams are split into 8 groups of 4 teams.The teams play one another, scoring points for wins and goals scored. The bottom 16 teams go home, the other 16 advance to the final 16. Theyll then play in a win or go home format. The tournament will progress to the final 8 and the final 4. The final 2 will play for the World Cup Championship title. . . Soccer the Business....... Soccer, also known as futbol. A sport with 3 to 5 Billion fans. In any televised pro or World Cup game typically there are quite a few multi-millionaires on the field. A guy from Portugal [Cristiano Ronaldo], base salary from his pro team in the ballpark of $50 million. Thats about -double- the highest paid player in the NFL and NBA and Major League Baseball. This being a sport with Billions of fans, his endorsement contracts put his net worth in the ballpark of $150 million. The U.S. pro league is called Major League Soccer or MLS. Average game attendance 18,000 to 22,000. Attendance for the Seattle team is 44,000. TV contract in the U.S. is at $700 million Average team value over $100 million. Player salaries, every team has 2 to 3 players over one-million. TV ratings for the U.S. pro league games are about the same as NHL pro-hockey, but increasing at a rate of 200% - 300%. TV ratings when the U.S. team plays World cup matches, they draw 10 - 25 million viewers, on the low end its on par with baseballs World Series, and on the high end its on par with the BCS National Championship game for college football. The World Cup tournament held once every 4 years is worth about $4 Billion. It pays out prize money of around $40 million.
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