USA-Ghana most-watched World Cup match

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By FRANCO PANIZO

If TV ratings have been any denote of a seductiveness in soccer in a United States, then a sport is clearly stability its ascent.

The U.S. men's inhabitant team's 2-1 loss to Ghana upon Saturday was a most-watched World Cup compare among households as well as viewers, according to ESPN.

The two-and-a-half-hour compare window averaged an 8.2 rating,9,455,000 households as well as 14,863,000 viewers formed upon fast nationals.

The compare ranks as a most-watched Men's World Cup game ever, with a 1999 Women's Final in between a United States as well as China being a only soccer compare to average more households as well as viewers. Those numbers have been 11,307,000 as well as 17,975,000, respectively.

The United States-Ghana game also showed an 11% enlarge in ratings as well as 13% in viewership from a much-anticipated United States-England Group C opener a single Jun 12.

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What do we think of USA-Ghana being a most-watched compare of a World Cup? Feel a United States' opening at a World Cup will assistance propel soccer to a next turn in this country?

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