U.S. Soccer Scores Big on ESPN3.com

While not quite reaching March Madness territory, the U.S. Soccer team’s victory that wasn’t scored a huge Friday morning audience for ESPN3.com.

Last Friday’s (June 18) disputed tie between the U.S. and Slovenia resulted in the Web sports network grabbing its largest audience ever—798,911 unique viewers, according to ESPN officials. Between live and on demand viewing of the match fans averaged 47 minutes on ESPN3.com, streaming a  total of 624,425 hours of soccer.

The first week of World Cup action has been a boon to ESPN3.com,

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