Does the amount of English players in the Premier League affect England’s chances of winning the World Cup?
The English Premier League consists of many of the top teams around Europe and even the world. Teams like Manchester united, Chelsea, and Arsenal all have come close to or even won the champions league in the last few years. However, did these teams have a high percentage of English players? Chelsea who won the champions league in May 2012 claiming the title “Champions of Europe” had only 6 English players out of the 18 players that were selected. Only 4 of these teams featured in the match. These figures are quite low compared to the Bayern Munich team which consisted of 11 German players and a German manager. Only one of these players did not play in the match. The figures are even lower for English players in the Premier League. In the 2012/2013 season only around 34% of English players played in the Premier League. However, some of these didn’t even play, this is a shocking figure compared to the olden days when there was over 73% of English players in the Premier League in 1922. 177 players featured in the first XI on the first day this figure massively fell this year to 75 English players who featured on the first day. England has not won the world cup since 1966. Is this because the amount of English players in the Premier League is just continuing to drop? Players back in 1966 were all loyal to their clubs for example Jack Charlton who was the centre back for the England team that won the world cup made 629 appearances for Leeds united . Whereas now the England centre back Rio Ferdinand has played for 4 clubs and so far has made 304 appearances. The quality of the England squad now is good as there is a variety of yo...
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... to win some silverware. This is the same for Manchester United. This shows that you don’t need money to win the Premier League. Clubs having too much money is corrupting the Premier League as the smaller teams such as Everton and Newcastle don’t have a chance to compete for the Premier League. Clubs like Liverpool, Everton, Newcastle and Aston Villa have been in the Premier League for 21 seasons but have never won the Premier League. All of these teams have a huge amount of talent in the first team, reserves and youth squad however their lack of money means they cannot buy world class players in the transfer windows like the other big clubs. This is just further evidence of how the Premier League is corrupted by clubs having too much money. And if all the clubs do not follow the financial fair play rule the Premier League will continue to be corrupted by money.
Stephanie Slade, a libertarian and a deputy managing editor for Reason magazine, wrote an article asking the question “Is watching football unethical?” She presents evidence, that we will review, that professional football players are being harmed by playing their game. She then lays out a series of analogies about, what she feels, are related topics and compares them to football players. She never answers her own question, but you do get the distinct feeling that she thinks people should stop watching professional football. She never defines ethics and assumes that everyone would see injustice in the trends she points out. I don’t agree with Ms. Slade and I don’t see injustice in the sad case of these players.
Playing football comes with several risks factors that players’ acknowledge prior to playing the game starting a young age. Regardless, these players still chose to play the game, which they end up loving and cherishing despite all the risks accompanied with it. Football is one of the toughest sports in the world; it takes a certain amount of strength, speed, and aggressiveness to play 48 minutes of hard-nosed football. However, the National Football League (NFL) is in the midst of a controversial issue. Is the NFL getting soft? This has been a debatable issue for several years. While some believe that implementing all these rules in the NFL is progressively turning the game soft, others say that the NFL is not getting soft; it is just trying to make the game safer for its players.
They also contend that sometimes lockouts are unavoidable and are often the only way to work out problems. The opposition reasons that professional teams with huge payrolls deserve all the money because they worked hard to get where they are. They argue that most players work hard to become great athletes and therefore they deserve enormous salaries.
By abolishing the salary cap, the Department of Justice ruling has had a substantial impact on the competitive balance of the NFL. Because the salary cap was removed, over the past 10 years teams from big markets, or who have deep-pocketed owners, have been spending money rampantly. Small market teams have been marginalized to a point of having very little chance to win, as they cannot afford to spend freely on talent, as they do not have the income potential to make money. This progression is similar to what we have seen over the years in professional soccer, specifically in the UEFA champion’s league and Spain’s. In the UEFA Champions League, 12 teams have combined to win 48 out of the 58 championships, or 82.76% of championships. There has been such a lack of Competitive Balance in revenue splitting and salary cap free soccer that even among the best teams in the world there is great disparity. An even more extreme example can be found in Spain’s La Liga, where the top 2 teams have won 65.85% of the league’s 82 championships and the top 5 teams have won 93.9% of the league’s championships. This lack of competitive balance is certainly caused by a lack of salary cap, as the top 2 teams spend up to €190,000,000 per year on players while lower level teams spend up to €14,000,000 per year on players. The NFL’s continued revenue sharing, however, has made it so that disparity in the league isn’t quite as large as it is in professional soccer. Despite these effects of Revenue sharing, the lack of a sal...
Lately in the NBA you might have noticed a lot more players from Europe playing for different teams in the league. Previously in the European players did not have the opportunity to play professional basketball for the NBA. Players that did get a chance rarely succeeded in the league of the worlds best basketball players, they were most likely traded until teams realized the little amount of talent compared to NBA superstars in the European players and then cut...
Soccer is still the world?s most beloved sport, and will continue to be the number one sport for generations to come. However, North America is never bound to join this band wagon because we simply find the sport dull. The fake injuries, scoreless games, and long game lengths disappoint the majority of North America, whom would much rather watch other exciting sports. Because of lacking a long-time tradition, excitement during matches, and good opportunities for big time television networks to broadcast the games, the real football fails to succeed as the superior sport in North America. Paying $250 million dollars to David Beckham won?t do any good in promoting soccer across North America. ?Football? will continue to be less than a second thought, so long as we have these other terrific sports at hand.
Football academies are environments in which promising footballers are trained and developed with the goal of becoming elite senior athletes (Crust, Nesti & Littlewood, 2010). English academies operate a dual sporting goal according to Isoard-Gautheur, Guillet-Ducas & Duda (2013), in which they aim to teach and help athlete’s master skills, but also have an obligation to ensure enough athletes break through into the senior team. Academies train athletes from the ages of 10 to 18 on a part time format, using elite coaches and elite competition between other academies to enhance their player’s ability (Crust, Nesti & Littlewood, 2010). Academies are very much utilised as a progressive filter, which begins with a large number of athletes at the youngest age, with progressively smaller numbers of athletes in each age group as age increases (Crust, Nesti & Littlewood, 2010). Whether an athlete is retained for the next year is subject to player evaluation by coaches and directors within the academy, thus requiring athletes to demonstrate competency as well as achieving success (Isoard-Gautheur, Guillet-Ducas & Duda, 2012; Crust, Nesti & Littlewood, 2010).
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While looking at these numerous problems I remember at a time my uncle told me that the business of soccer is good business, there is so much wealth to the be tapped if done correctly. The bad transfer system makes it difficult for European based players to move the United States. Average players like Kaka have tried to move to clubs like Los Angeles and have had deal not been able to go through because we have an Americanized sports version of a salary cap, so that everything is fair. In life and sports “Survival of the fittest” so why make an artificial environment that counter to nature? Players who deserve high wages like superstars deserve it and should have to suffer for one who performs subpar. These caps makes superstars like Kaka, Fran...
Soccer, or also known as “Football”, is one of the most popular outdoor team sports in Australia. In 2006, a total of 970,728 people in Australia played soccer, with 435,728 as registered players, and 535,000 as unregistered players. With coaches and referees included, it is estimated that about 3.1 million people are involved in the sport, which is higher than any other sport in Australia.
When the league formed there were hardly any foreign players even from Mexico. In the next couple years as it gained popularity players started coming from Mexico. This opened the door for players from all around the world to start coming in and playing soccer here. As of today there are currently 66 different countries represented by players on MLS rosters. This would have been unthinkable when the league first came to be. 60% of the athletes in the MLS are American born players and of that percentage 14% are of a Chicano background (Hispanic Market part of DNA of MLS, 2009). Which is the second largest group of foreign players in the MLS, second only to Canada and there are two MLS teams in Canada. This is something recruiters from the league are starting to lean towards when selecting upcoming talent to fill their rosters. They would much rather have people who were raised watching and playing soccer from a very early age than people who enjoy soccer but aren’t as fully devoted to it as a lot of Chicano people are. This leads them to have a drive and desire to succeed here because their love for the game and wanting to play it at any cost. That spirit and work ethic can be seen from many Chicano people as they strive to better their lives and the lives of their
...n fans know it is still about the game, there wouldn't be money to be made. Many may even have faith that even hen owners invest in clubs as a business,they too are still captivated by the pitch week in and week out.
In our society today, football has made quite an impact. There are football games almost every day and a lot of people tune into them. You can see football becoming more and more impactful by changing our schudeles, creating rivalries between friends, and also affecting our lives.
"Money makes the world go 'round." Sports could not exist without the presence of money. You have high paid athletes asking for multi-million dollar contacts, while at the same time you have doctors not even making close to that amount. There are corporations buying out sports teams, buying stadiums, and buying everything that has to do with sports. Someone may ask why they do this. Sports are one of the most profitable industries in the world. Everyone wants to get their hand on a piece of the action. Those individuals and industries that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these sports teams are hoping to make a profit, but it may be an indirect profit. It could be a profit for the sports club, or it could be a promotion for another organization (i.e. Rupert Murdoch, FOX). The economics involved with sports has drastically changed over the last ten years. In the United States, we spend about 13% of all money on sports and entertainment. Sports has obviously done its job; entertained and drained money out of our pockets.
... fans who stop attending games and the success of the team will be going down. Now if we take a look at a regular soccer team in England for example Liverpool, the fans know that the owner wants to do what’s best for the team and want to win, so even if the team is struggling the stadium will still be sold out just because the fans trust the owner will do what’s best for the team and they will support the team no matter whether they are playing well or not. Now if Liverpool started to sell all their best players just so that the owner could make some money the fans would slowly stop going to the games.