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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Barca v Arsenal was the [url=http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/UCL/index.html]UEFA Champions League[/url] Final which happens yearly, the final that is, not the Barcenal matchup. Last year it was Liverpool coming back from 3-0 to tie 3-3 and win on PKs against Milan. There is some sort of pride probably, but mostly players just want to play in the best league possible on the best team possible. A massive criteria for what teams and leagues are the best is the prospects for playing and doing well in Champions League football. Though it's highly subjective, well maybe not that highly, here's my take on the best leagues in Europe: Level one: Italy, Spain and England (no particular order) Level two: Germany, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands (no particular order) Level three: The rest! :) Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Ukraine, Romania, Yugoslavia (or whatever entities used to be Yugoslavia) Russia etc etc etc Generally speaking you'll find a lot more UK born players playing in the English Premier League, more Spaniards in La Liga, More Italians in the Serie A but you'll see the truly top class players moving amongst the big clubs with good Champions League prospects no matter the country they are based in. For the most part, English players tend to stay in England, Italians in Itlay, Spaniards in Spain. European teams.leagues employ talent however fro mthe nations of Brasil, Argentina, S America/Eastern Europe, Africa with some Asians and North/Central Americans trickling in. About 10 years ago there was a landmark court case in Europe, "the Bosman Ruling" if you wanna google it, that struck down the "foreign player cap" for European leagues and allowed for any player with an EU passport to play for any EU country. Before that ruling I believe there was a maximum of 3 players allowed on the field that were not from that team's country. I think you'd be hard pressed to find an Englishman in Arsenal's Champions League Final side, maybe Sol Campbell played? Arsenal is a forein legion these days and heck, for hat matter Barcelona fielded Brasilians (Ronaldinho, Edmilson), Portuguese (Deco), Cameroonians (Eto'o) French (Giuly) Swedish (Larsson) etc etc etc The world is definitely shrinking [url=http://disk919.com/][img]http://www.disk919.com/sig/jason.gif[/img][/url][url=http://serveit.org/][img]http://www.disk919.com/sig/serveit.org.gif[/img][/url] Loading...
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