For Football fans(soccer)

[dj-chefron]

Trying to understand the game a little more so bear with me.In the championship for the club teams, does it matter in which league you play in?I mean is the English Premier league stronger than the German , Spanish or Italian Leagues?And if so how do you rank them.

[Sean G]

Trying to understand the game a little more so bear with me.In the championship for the club teams, does it matter in which league you play in?I mean is the English Premier league stronger than the German , Spanish or Italian Leagues?And if so how do you rank them.

Premier league
Serie A
La Liga
Bundesliga


IMO

[AgentDoubleA]

It's, FUTBOL.

:thumbsup:

[geo]

Premier league
La Liga
Serie A
Bundesliga

[martino]

The real answer is "it depends" what you mean by strongest.

English Premiership is the fastest.
Spains league is the most fluid (lots of pretty plays) and quite technical.
Italian is the most tactical and possibly as technical as spain. But it's much slower than the EPL and a lot more tackling and defensive strategies come in to play.
German league has a lot of goals.

Another example as to why "it depends" is that Many of the best players in the world come from Brazil, yet Brazilians traditionally don't do very well in England. They play for Spanish or Italian clubs (besides south american clubs). Yet, right now, many people will say that England has the best league, because 3 of the 4 top european clubs came out of the EPL.

This last year few could argue with the strength of the EPL judging by their two top teams alone.

[chewie]

The real answer is "it depends" what you mean by strongest.

English Premiership is the fastest.
Spains league is the most fluid (lots of pretty plays) and quite technical.
Italian is the most tactical and possibly as technical as spain. But it's much slower than the EPL and a lot more tackling and defensive strategies come in to play.
German league has a lot of goals.

Another example as to why "it depends" is that Many of the best players in the world come from Brazil, yet Brazilians traditionally don't do very well in England. They play for Spanish or Italian clubs (besides south american clubs). Yet, right now, many people will say that England has the best league, because 3 of the 4 top european clubs came out of the EPL.

This last year few could argue with the strength of the EPL judging by their two top teams alone.

i agree with most of that, different leagues have different characteristics and features but i'd have to put the premier league top of the pile - the top two teams not only fought out the Champs League final, but also it could've gone either way in the league up until the last game

further more - all the english teams actually only went out to other english teams arsenal to liverpool (without deserving to), liverpool to chelsea and chelsea to united

the pace and physical element also makes for good viewing

[dj-chefron]

Thank you for the replies.Now I am going to be nationalistic and ask . :wtf: with the United States. Will we ever be considered to be a threat to win the World Cup?

[jimmymack-2000]

Thank you for the replies.Now I am going to be nationalistic and ask . :wtf: with the United States. Will we ever be considered to be a threat to win the World Cup?

Likely not.

[ngeso]

Thank you for the replies.Now I am going to be nationalistic and ask . :wtf: with the United States. Will we ever be considered to be a threat to win the World Cup?


Not unless soccer attains the status of a 'religion' it has everywhere else successful football is played. Not if soccer plays second (hell - sixth!) fiddle to NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR, commercially as well as popularly. Not if American sports culture continues to prefer to exist in comparative isolation (doing funny things like calling a round of stickball the...erm...'World Series'). Not without a profound understanding of and identification with the locale. Not without a club structure embedded in the very heart of that locale. Not with a draft system. Not with the franchise system. With salary capping. Cheerleader/Airhead culture. Those shady, shady club names.


I'll reckon that the U.S. and Canada could be really good at rugby union, though. There is no reason why America shouldn't play top flight rugby in 10, 15 years' time.

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[ngeso]

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[Mr. Stench]

I would not say one league is better or more competitive than another. If you look at champions league performance you would say serie A and la liga are the strongest.

However, the premier league is the wealthiest and has had a good year. I think that the bundesliga is a notch below although they have very strong teams such as Bayern Munchen.

With this said, I would focus on individual teams rather than national leagues.

[jimmymack-2000]

Some of the matches in the French equivalent of the Premiership were exciting in the mid-90s...David Ginola and George Weah for PSG, Dechampes and Barthez at Olympic Marseille...

I occasionally go to a Cote d'Ivoirean chicken BBQ joint near me for takeout, and they always have French club league games playing.