2007-07-20 13:31:07 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
There are so many factors involved.....First, Mexican league is probably better quality soccer right now, but MLS has far greater potential than the Mexican League. MLS has attracted the attention of the elite players in the world, and evidently has the money to interest them. No elite players world wide will ever consider going to play in Mexico, they just don't and won't. If elite players continue to come as they have this year, and if the money continues to be there to pay them, MLS one day could in fact be a league on a level with the best.
@manny: thank you for making my point.....not one of those you named is an elite player.
2007-07-20 15:10:43 · answer #1 · answered by playmaker4747 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is still a significant ways to go. There needs to be more head to head games to tell for sure. That is definitely something the leagues should look into seriously.
It is probably not as far away as the Mexican fans would like to think. The U.S. continues to improve by leaps and bounds. How many would have predicted the current strength of the U.S. team just twenty years ago?
Putting a time frame on this depends on too many different variables. If the MLS can acquire the fan base and money so that it can be seen by the best players as a real option or if it is seen as merely a second tier league and a stepping stone to play in Europe. If the former, it might be as soon as five years.
2007-07-20 14:09:17 · answer #2 · answered by jeffrcal 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The MLS isn't going to get there any time soon - at least 20 years. It could be expedited if the Mexican league allowed a team in Los Angeles and another in Texas. The huge amounts of immigrant fans could sustain a team that would be able to play against Mexican teams. That team would be able to afford to compete with top European teams for talent.
A Mexican league team in LA would make $$$$$$ and would be able to afford to buy players like Premier and La Liga teams do. That quality of play would drive Americans to the sport.
Why do I say Mexican league - 1. No salary caps. 2. The immigrants could see the players they have followed all their lives. 3. Higher US wages would allow higher ticket prices and higher player salaries.
It's a win - win.
MLS does not avail those opportunities.
2007-07-20 14:08:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
personally, i give it about 10 years maybe? since now that we have Becks and J. P. Angel and stuff, some influence may be there for other overseas players to come to the MLS (including a possibility of Schevchenko, see either FIFA.com or the official site for the F.A. Primeir Leage) and who knows, maybe 20-30 years down the road we may be able to get teams into the Champions League (wishful thinking mainly but you never know, who knew Becks would drop by?)
2007-07-20 14:10:45 · answer #4 · answered by irishrisks1918 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The MLS is a baby compared to FEMEXFUT.Even if you go back to the early years of FEMEXFUT with teams like Oro, Asturias and Atletico Espanol, any of those vintage teams could get over 20,00 fans in their stadiums for a regular Sunday match. The MLS is still in diapers compared to the tradition, rivalries and heritage of FEMEXFUT.
2007-07-20 14:12:47 · answer #5 · answered by Luis H 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The fact that you compare a 60+ year old league to one hardly over 10 is telling in and of itself.
2007-07-20 13:58:11 · answer #6 · answered by Dtoo 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
provided that there is so lots greater money interior the U. S. than there is in Mexico, i could say no longer that far away in any respect. humorous how high quality gamers constantly persist with the money. David Beckham case in point.
2016-10-19 06:24:55 · answer #7 · answered by latassa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not as far as one would think. When the MLS wins a CONCACAF 3 outta 5 yrs thats when. With teams like the Houstons Dynamo and FC Dallas becoming major clubs its not as far away as you think.
2007-07-20 13:52:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
VERY VERY far! sorry but we mexicans rock at soccer and the MLS is just a joke to the rest of the world.
2007-07-20 14:52:17 · answer #9 · answered by nance 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
far 1 player wont make the difference...and there is international players in Mexico hers a few that have played or play in FMF
Robert de Pinho
Miguel Calero (col)
Sebastian "el loco" Abreu(uru)
Salvador Cabanas (par)
rodrigo lopez arg
castroman arg
emilio butragueno spain
chelito delgado arg
"chupete" suazo chile
I can go on ...
2007-07-20 15:36:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋