Out of curiosity: Goals by league through 6/18/2014: Bundesliga: 14 La Liga: 10 EPL: 10 Seria A: 6 Ligue 1: 3 MLS: 3 Eredvisie: 2 MXLiga: 2 Russian: 2 Belgian Jupiler: 1 S. Korea: 1 Chile: 1 Argentina: 1 Brazil: 1
This is really interesting! Please keep a running tally, am curious to see who ends up on top (it will obviously depend in no small part on how far that league's national team advances but still)
probably MLS's best chance to add to its tally outside the NATS with Cahill suspended and everybody else pretty much a defender. It will be interesting to do the tally through the first rounds when everybody plays the same amount of games... after that I expect the big leagues to dominate.
Kind of a shame Jermaine Defoe wasn't there to help our MLS tally. I agree that we would have to give the feeder league that he came from a little credit but still...
Goals by league through 6/19/2014 after 6 goals today: +3 EPL, and +1 for Seria A, Ligue 1, and Portugal's Premeira Liga getting its first of the tournament. Bundesliga: 14 EPL: 13 La Liga: 10 Seria A: 7 Ligue 1: 4 MLS: 3 Eredvisie: 2 MXLiga: 2 Russian: 2 Belgian Jupiler: 1 S. Korea: 1 Chile: 1 Argentina: 1 Brazil: 1 Portugal: 1
MLS needs to promote this. In fact it needs to promote more than what they're currently doing, the contributions of Cahill, Cesar, Espinoza and loads more guys for their NT this summer in Brazil.
I would love to see him get on the scoring sheet, as that would mean MLS goals from 3 different teams which would be a nice accomplishment for the league. It won't put it in the top tier (the top 5 I figure will really separate), but it would definitely be a good indication of the league's ability to improve regional talent and recruit capable imports (folks like Cahill and Keane who still have a good bit in the tank when they left Europe).
Seeing as their top players are good enough to star in the top leagues it does sound about right. I'd love to see this tally side by side with goals by national teams.
Really interesting stuff. LigaMX ranks highly but that's (almost) all due to Valencia's three goals. Amazing that England has scored two goals but more scorers come from EPL than anywhere else... Also look at Napoli, with four different scorers, the most of any club
Yeh think this every world cup. MLS should be running adds now on ESPN promoting their players in world cup. Cahil scoring a goal for the Socceroos than for Redbulls, Cesar makes a save for Brazil, then for Toronto and so on.