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Haha, what is this... So, I have no interest in football, but a quick search for top clubs -> Everton FC players reveals around half of them are foreign. So w
by jotm 8y ago
Haha, what is this...
So, I have no interest in football, but a quick search for top clubs -> Everton FC players reveals around half of them are foreign.
So what does this have to do with the country? A rich club can afford the best players from all over the world, plus the best training... and that's it...
- dmurray 8y agoThe article is about predicting the success of national teams, not club teams. National team players can't be bought or sold and in most cases people are only eligible to play for one or maybe two national teams.
- jotm 8y agoI see, I thought they're all the same.
- hibikir 8y agoYour lack of interest in football is already what makes the rest of your search fruitless: You are looking for information with little relevance to the article. The article is about international soccer competitions, not national or international club competitions. So England might have a strong league, with a lot of rich teams with wealthy owners, but when you get to the World Cup, the English team, made up only of English men, underperforms, while Brazil and Germany, which have far weaker club leagues, do far better. It's not just a matter of league quality either: Spain has both recent international success and perennially strong international clubs, despite having a weaker economy than the UK.