The Englishman Who Became America's No. 1 Soccer Fan

The inside story of America’s No. 1 soccer fan highlights Roger Bennett’s intense World Cup travel and media run as the tournament grows in the United States. Bennett, 55, left New York on June 10 for a sequence of stops including Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas and a return to Atlanta before the final in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 19. By then he planned to have logged far more miles than most teams. As a Liverpool-born broadcaster and founder of the Men in Blazers Media Network, he is described as being constantly booked across platforms such as ESPN, CNN and Barstool Sports, including appearances linked to the France-Morocco quarterfinal. The Men in Blazers podcast is cited with 2.3 million followers, and the article says its engagement rate rivals major U.S. broadcasters’ social platforms. The piece also notes a record 45 million viewers in a July 5 England–Mexico window on FOX and Telemundo.