Almost 4 million people tuned into Univision to watch a U.S.-Mexico soccer match.
Mexico 3-2 in the final round of the CONCACAF Nations League, a new tournament for national soccer teams in North and Central America.
The match earned a bigger audience than any NBA playoff game on ESPN or TNT last week, except for a Thursday night matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns that drew over 4.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen data. More people also watched the U.S.-Mexico faceoff than the New York Islanders’ defeat of the Boston Bruins in the NHL’s playoffs Saturday , or Simone Biles’The U.S.-Mexico game was the 15th most popular primetime show on broadcast TV networks last week, but it was the most watched program among younger viewers, beating the season premiere of NBC’sA pair of CONCACAF Nations League semifinals on Saturday also pulled in large audiences on Univision. Some 2.
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