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67% of players say an MLS team would survive the Premier League. Are they right? The Guardian They could hardly survive Liga MX...
Except that most LigaMX teams would survive relegation in any of the big European leagues. They wouldn't be challenging or the championship, but they generally wouldn't be fighting of relegation, either. That's the point about parity. The difference between the best and worst MLS or LigaMX sides is a small fraction of the difference you find in non-parity leagues. With the added TV money each EPL team now gets, I'm not sure that an MLS team would survive the EPL, but the better MLS sides would definitely survive Ligue Un, La Liga, and Serie A, and possibly the Bundesliga. The money now pouring into the EPL is a game changer, and it appears to be flattening out the talent curve. At a certain point, teams run out of places to spend money.
I think it was a pretty fair and balanced assessment. And I think if you were to flip the question the other way, i.e. Would the bottom teams in the EPL make the MLS playoffs?, you could make the argument that they wouldn't. Travel, altitude, extreme heat, extreme cold, humidity.....all of those take a huge toll on the quality of play on the field. Could Aston Villa manage all of that and still make the playoffs? I personally don't think they could. I think more than half the teams in the EPL lack the quality depth to successfully navigate those challenges.
i was fortunate to see cruyff in 1979 when he was with the LA Aztec- it was a playoff game and there was a shootout where players had 5 seconds to dribble the ball in from the 35 yard line and take a shot johan flipped the ball into the air, headed it forward and then hit it on the volley from about 25 yards out- the Vancouver goalie, phil parkes, stood stunned and motionless as the ball soared into the top corner- it was the greatest example of audacity and skill that i have ever witnessed truly a magical player
Next to Pele, Chinaglia, George Best and Roberto Baggio, he was maybe the fifth greatest player I ever saw live. I saw Franz Beckenbauer live too at Spartan Stadium in San Jose when the Cosmos came to play the Quakes there in 1983 but he was almost 38 years of age at the time so he was already way past his prime when I saw him playing. I remember Quakes Scottish GK Mike Hewitt on his birthday in July 1979 saving a one vs one shootout attempt against Cruyff when they were on the road facing the Los Angeles Aztecs. The game ended in a 0-0 draw after the double OT but the Quakes prevailed in a shootout...
I saw him in Dallas. LA had a free kick about 25 yds from the goal, just to the left. He curled it into the far top corner with Kenny Cooper (Sr) diving hopelessly. Ref called it back because he was setting the wall and had not blown the whistle. Cruyff puts the ball down, takes it again, and curls it into the far top corner with Cooper diving hopelessly.
David Beckham group buys private land needed for Miami soccer stadium http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article68064887.html
Aston Villa? You do know that the EPL is only the Manchester teams, a couple London teams, and Liverpool. Least according to people that constantly talk about how the EPL is superior to MLS in all ways.
Johan Cruyff's legacy spans two continents Johan Cruyff, the soccer philosopher Beckenbauer: 'Cruyff was a brother to me' Van der Sar: More than the soccer world will miss Cruyff Barcelona mourns Cruyff's passing Two legends....RIP!