five hours and six minutes to be precise, the u.s. takes on portugal in the high-stakes game in the world cup. last week s game against ghana brought in 15.9 million viewers, slightly less than an nfl game, but this popularity didn t come out of nowhere. i d like to bring in gary hopkins, author of star-spangled soccer, what we re calling a fun segment. it s nice to see you. thank you for joining me. you re welcome. you said it s a couple of decades in the making, all this popularity. explain that. well, this started probably in 1994 when the usa hosted the world cup for the first time. and it still holds the record for the fans that attended a world cup, which is phenomenal. since 1994 the sport s taken off, not just from the standpoint of playing it and leagues, just the fact that these kids now, they grew up playing soccer. they understand soccer, they know soccer, and more importantly, they see soccer everywhere on the tv screen. they see it on nbc, the english premier leag
record-breaking ratings as well. the monday evening battle against ghana was the most watched soccer game in u.s.i ii history and that record could be broken again when the u.s. team plays in a more favorable time slot this sunday, a total of 15.9 million viewers tuned in to watch u.s./ghana on espn and univision spanish language broadcast. look at what they compare to, 111.5 million tv viewers for the super bowl or more than 25 million who watched the college football title game but we re getting there, america is getting on board with soccer, football as they call it. there will be a new champion at this year s world cup. chile socked the reigning champs spain handing the team their second loss in ground play and keeping them from advancing to the next round. it is the first time in world cup history the previous winner has been knocked out after just two matches. could there be more upsets in the games ahead? the u.s. team and their fans
sunday. altador will not be ready. he hurt his hamstring. he had an m.r.i. on tuesday. the coach says let s wait and see. we ve got to see how he reacts in the next couple of days with this hamstring and we re full of hope. wouldn t it be great if they had landed donovan to come off the bench. i found somebody who is more into soccer than i am. that is george the dog. his owner said he spent the last few days glued for hours. the other owner s dog, he says he s normally sleeping. as far as the game goes, they had on monday s game, 15.9 million people watch. that is incredible. that s twice as much as the n.h.l. and almost as much as game 7 of the nba. a lot of people but not
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impressive gains putting new car and truck sales in the united states back to their pre-recession level. but, this has some analysts scratching their head and asking, why in we will bring in founder and c.e.o. of the powell financial group. thank you for joining us. americans, we love our cars. we do. it is in our d.n.a. it gives us the freedom. we drive it out of the show room and we are free to do anything we want. we love our cars. heather: that cannot be the only reason. it would seem more americans are buying cars. in july, to the tune of almost 16 million. also, in june we had we 15.9 million so we have two months back-to-back impressive pace going on and a couple of reasons. a lot of pent up demand. people were not buying cars in