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In Europe there are minor (regional) leagues all the way down to the city level. Most cost maybe 2 to 5 euro to attend. But they are all within the same footba
by maweki 6y ago
In Europe there are minor (regional) leagues all the way down to the city level. Most cost maybe 2 to 5 euro to attend.
But they are all within the same football governing body and you can climb these leagues up to the Bundesliga or premier league or whatever.
- tshanmu 6y agoThat's the aspiration. But reality is very different. The interesting aspect was when the that reality was being called out, everyone rebelled!!
- riffraff 6y agothe thing people seem to have forgotten is that reality _was_ different until 20 years ago, when the powerful clubs pushed for the creation of the Champions League, then for unbalanced dividends that rewarded the already powerful, then killed the Cup Winner's Cup. In the '80/90s the Champion's Cup was won by Red Star Belgrade, Porto, Hamburg, Steaua Bucarest, Aston Villa, Olympique Marseille, Ajax, PSV etc in addendum do the "big ones". Then the big clubs bullied the UEFA and the local leagues into giving them more and more money in proportion, and changing the rules so they'd basically never be excluded. This latest attempt is just another step towards a future where the reality of the small team getting to the top needs to be completely erased in the interest of the big teams.
- orthoxerox 6y agoThat's right. There was a literal football school in Moscow that got a good coach and shot from division 4 to division 3 to division 2, finished third last year, but didn't get to fight for promotion to the top division because of Covid.