What Is The Atmosphere Like At Inter Miami CF Matches?

SportsGrid

Watch What Is The Atmosphere Like At Inter Miami CF Matches? - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00 What I would ask for you who have been a long time

00:05 broadcaster, radio show host, podcast host covering soccer,

00:10 I wanna ask you about the environment

00:12 because I don't know what it compares to

00:15 as far as being at those games

00:17 and being at Drive Pink Stadium in Fort Lauderdale

00:20 for people who do not know.

00:22 Does it compare to the NFL?

00:24 Is it compared to the Heat, Miami Heat?

00:26 I know I'm not gonna try to make a baseball comparison here,

00:29 but how do you put it up against those things

00:31 'cause you've been to them all?

00:33 - Yeah, I think there's a little bit of a different flow

00:37 to a soccer game 'cause it's not constantly broken up

00:40 by commercial breaks.

00:41 There's 48 straight minutes

00:43 and so there's sort of this steady noise.

00:45 Drive Pink Stadium, I think most kind of compares

00:48 within the soccer world

00:49 to a South American kind of atmosphere

00:51 because there's one end of the ground

00:53 that is constantly playing instruments

00:55 and keeping the atmosphere going the whole time.

00:57 So it sort of is its own unique flavor

01:00 of a sporting atmosphere.

01:01 But I think having been at the first game,

01:04 it was just wild how centered it was on one person

01:07 because Lionel Messi completely captured the attention

01:09 even when he didn't start the game,

01:11 even when the second half started

01:13 and he wasn't in the game either.

01:14 And it was sort of a constant intake of breath

01:17 whenever he touched the ball.

01:18 It was a constant,

01:19 let's get him in the game as soon as possible.

01:21 I paid a bunch of money for this.

01:23 I wanna see him on the field.

01:24 There was also a fair amount of obviously,

01:27 a lot of people sort of showing up

01:28 for the first time to see him

01:29 and getting their phones out to record him.

01:31 And I'm not certain that that was sort of the best

01:33 for the atmosphere.

01:34 And I kind of wonder as we get to our third,

01:37 fourth, fifth, sixth home game for him,

01:40 that it's not really just everyone there

01:41 to capture for social media and say,

01:43 I was there at the game in which he scored a bunch of goals.

01:46 So it was kind of, there were very unique atmospheres,

01:48 but certainly one that was sort of very tension packed.

01:51 But that first one was just kind of unlike anything

01:53 I've ever been at,

01:54 other than maybe sort of championship games

01:56 just because of the celebrity factor.

01:58 I was walking around the field before the game

02:00 and I saw Kim Kardashian and then Tristan Thompson walk in

02:03 and then LeBron walk in

02:04 and all these famous people walk in.

02:05 I was like, what is,

02:06 this is not what Inter Miami has been

02:08 for most of its existence.

02:10 But yeah, I think the atmospheres are actually,

02:12 believe it or not, going to get better

02:14 because right now we're in a tournament called League's Cup

02:18 and those tickets were sort of extras.

02:20 They were add-ons to your season ticket package.

02:22 Eventually when we get back to league play,

02:24 it will be the season ticket holders,

02:26 some of whom who have been along since day one,

02:28 that are sort of the day one fans

02:29 that create the atmosphere.

02:30 Even when, frankly, it wasn't as attractive

02:33 to go to an Inter Miami game.

02:34 There were 12 or 13,000 people there,

02:35 but they were creating a good atmosphere

02:38 because they're genuine soccer fans that love Inter Miami.

02:40 And I think as we kind of get back to league play,

02:42 we'll start to see something more like

02:44 a genuine raucous atmosphere,

02:45 especially if this continues to build as it is,

02:48 because first two games obviously gone brilliantly.

02:51 If they go far in this League's Cup,

02:52 if they come back and start making winning games look easy,

02:55 I think this atmosphere is only going to continue to build.

Category

Transcript

Recommended