Your 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.

Your 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.