MLS teams in Copa Libertadores and/or..

Unak78 · Dec 29, 2018

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Brazilian revenues are still increasing, their structure get better every year. That downfall is due devaluation of reais compared to dollars, if their economy get better the difference will increase highly again.

It was 1 dollar to 2 reais in 2012, it is 1 dollar to 3.90 reais today.
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Well that is something that has to be taken into account when measuring relative value. It doesn't matter how passionate fans are if the economy struggles. And Brazil is South America's biggest economy and gateway to the wider global market. When their economy struggles so does South America's most of the time...

RMAmethyst · Dec 29, 2018

Unak78 said: ↑

Well that is something that has to be taken into account when measuring relative value. It doesn't matter how passionate fans are if the economy struggles. And Brazil is South America's biggest economy and gateway to the wider global market. When their economy struggles so does South America's most of the time...
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I agree with you! I was just pointing the reason for that is the financial crisis in Brazil, if the crisis is solved they will get a way better.

Said that just because the data makes Brazilian league looks like they were struggling from 2012 to 2015, but that was their best period financially. They had the debut of about 14 modern stadiums in that period and the structure is getting better everyday.

ceezmad · Jan 2, 2019

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That is not really true. CONMEBOL zone is richer than CONCACAF zone.

If wealth of the federations is measured by the wealth of their members, Brazilian league is a way richer than MLS and richer than Liga MX as well. The whole MLS earns $90M of television money. Only Flamengo earn $83M from television money due Brazilian league. And they also play state league, Libertadores and Copa do Brasil. In the end, Flamengo probably earn more money with television than the whole MLS.

Libertadores is a huge market already, CONCACAF's teams would be the most benefited.
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Yes, but probably not by a lot.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/804471/value-soccer-teams-latin-america/

Forbes Mexico published the list of the 50 most valuable soccer teams in America. According to the report, the Latin American countries with the highest number of football clubs on the list are Brazil (with 14 teams), Mexico (with 11 teams) and Argentina (with 7 teams). The criteria that were taken into account to make the list were the value of the template, the value of the brand and the cost of the stadium (as long as it is owned by the club). However, it is important to note that the fact that one team is more valuable than another does not necessarily imply that it has more financial power.
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https://latinamericanpost.com/23145-this-are-the-richest-football-teams-in-latin-america

VBCity72 · Jan 6, 2019

Unfortunately, those are just Latin America and don't include any MLS teams.