I must admit I got a little chuckle from this German article saying that soccer should be more like American sports. It complains that while in the NFL there are different winners every year, in European leagues one or two teams dominate. It advocates the creation of a European League and salary caps.
Meanwhile, Americans have been wringing their hands wondering why the US can't make the World Cup and saying we should be more like the Europeans. Grass is always greener I guess.
The article doesn't touch on the problems with our US pro system. The salary caps make a professional career less attractive than college (unless the overall pie is huge like the NFL and NBA). The MLS does a better job of training players from Trinidad & Tobago than Americans. And the article doesn't talk about promotion and relegation and the secondary leagues and what happens to them. And the large transfer fees in European soccer make the academy system possible-- unless maybe they'd like to import "pay to play" too.
https://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/how-nfl-socialism-can-help-save-european-soccer
Meanwhile, Americans have been wringing their hands wondering why the US can't make the World Cup and saying we should be more like the Europeans. Grass is always greener I guess.
The article doesn't touch on the problems with our US pro system. The salary caps make a professional career less attractive than college (unless the overall pie is huge like the NFL and NBA). The MLS does a better job of training players from Trinidad & Tobago than Americans. And the article doesn't talk about promotion and relegation and the secondary leagues and what happens to them. And the large transfer fees in European soccer make the academy system possible-- unless maybe they'd like to import "pay to play" too.
https://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/how-nfl-socialism-can-help-save-european-soccer