Wonder why he made this decision?A guy I put on my Mount Rushmore of sports is coming to play in the MLS. Pretty wild. Most popular athlete in the worlds most popular sport, just won the world cup. This is the biggest thing to happen to american sports in a long time.
Yeah thats what I'm interested in knowing because you arent getting a guy on his last legs. When he was rumored I was thinking years down the line. The fact they get him now is huge as will be his contract I'm sure.Wonder what kind of money they offered him cause he was a top five money guy and MLS has no where near that kind of money to give him. But he will sell out every stadium he goes to.
He wasnt going back to Spain. I was expecting him to go to the Premier League. But I guess MLS made him a offer he couldnt refuse.Wonder why he made this decision?
Wonder why he made this decision?
Alright, so I know **** about soccer, but I do know that we as Americans (like me as an individual) don’t really follow soccer or consider it a major sport in the US, and as such recognize that MLS isn’t necessarily a premier league. However, I’ve also never really understood the landscape of professional soccer world wide. I know it’s the European leagues that are most competitive (don’t ask me to be any more specific than that) and I know that MLS is not all that relevant. That being said, you had guys like Beckham who played in the league (I can’t vouch for how good he really is because, well, I know nothing about soccer and I’ve never actually seen him play, but I do know his reputation) and now someone like Messi. Someone help me understand how MLS fits in to the world of professional soccer. Are we like the Chinese CBA bad or are we more like the Australian league?
On the Global Football rankings website MLS is ranked 16th out of 33 leagues. Australian League is 29th and Chinese League is 32nd.
It's hard to really tell outside of the eye-test considering the lack of inter-league competition. When was the last time an MLS side was put against a La Liga 2 team? And even if they did it would just be a pre-season friendly or something like that. All we know is we're somewhat on par with Liga MX but fall short frequently in the Concacaf champs league final.Its definitely better than the A league but this list has it ahead of the SPFL, J League, Serie B, Spanish La Liga 2 French Ligue 2, the Argentine and Swiss leagues and the Bundesliga 2, which it definitely isnt. I'd also say the Austrian Bundesliga, Polish First division and Czech league are a better standard too.
It's hard to really tell outside of the eye-test considering the lack of inter-league competition. When was the last time an MLS side was put against a La Liga 2 team? And even if they did it would just be a pre-season friendly or something like that. All we know is we're somewhat on par with Liga MX but fall short frequently in the Concacaf champs league final.