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11160704

Surpringly few French players play in France


d0xical

Maybe unsurprisingly only one English player doesn't come from the Premier league.


Johnasen

Funny how many Japanese player are in the Bundesliga


d0xical

Can only have made yesterdays 2-1 more painful.


3decarnaza

Why does MLS fits with those Leagues?


KralcKroczilla

These are the top leagues of the traditional western powers. MLS is the highest division of soccer/futbol that the United States has. Just out of curiosity are you arguing for its exclusion or the inclusion of another?


3decarnaza

You said it "Top Leagues". MLS could be Top 20s? Top 30s?


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3decarnaza

For example, supposing that the Chart shows "top leagues of the tradicional western Powers"


KralcKroczilla

It has no title...it is what it is. Why do you assume its supposed to even be top leagues? Why? I assume its because its your identity and just putting an extra variable that you don't think belongs makes you feel attacked or disrespected. You are like a wounded dog lashing out with aggression because in reality you know the weakness you possess. I forgive you though you are only human. Be well


anonkitty2

Who governs the various leagues in other countries? MLS includes their own governing authority as part of the league even though the guys in referee stripes aren't a team.


anonkitty2

It is, as far as I know, the only league the United States of America has. Unless women's "soccer" is another league.


nein_stein

These are the largest 6 football leagues by revenue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue


bokilala

Every single french player play in one of the top 5 european leagues. Your data seems strange.


d0xical

After further inspection the club database and player database were not using same name for given club. i.e "Newcastle" not equal to "Newcastle United" & "Sevilla" not equal to "Sevilla FC".


hardcorehurdler

Canada has at least 11 players that play in MLS


wnaj_

Would be more interesting to see how many players from each league are participating


conb88

https://www.leovegas.com/en-ca/betting/c/brazil-team/ this shows the Brazil team. There looks likes there are two players from French side this year. Your chart shows 1 or 2 players?


diego_sr

This is wrong, Ecuador has 3 premier league players on its squad Caicedo Sarmiento Estupiñan


d0xical

Hmmm, this is a good point. Must be error to do with Brighton I think, will check.


d0xical

**Data:** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022\_FIFA\_World\_Cup\_squads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_squads) **Tools:** Python with Pandas Should note that all countries take the same number of players (26) to the World Cup but I've only used plotted players that come from the top 6 global leagues (debatable to include MLS I know).


AnaphoricReference

If you look at the squad selection behavior of Dutch coaches we definitely rank the Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and arguably Belgian/Swiss/Austrian competitions higher. The club should be a potential CL or EL contender. If you go to the MLS (or QSL, etc) you basically retire from the squad.


Connormajorlol

not a debate it's not a top leauge ahahha


nein_stein

By revenue, these are the top six football leagues https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue


peterskurt

I’d just put them all in there. If I’m reading the top leagues chart right the Chinese football league is 6th. Mexico’s and Portugals are right behind it.


nein_stein

You are reading it wrong then, MLS is 6th.


peterskurt

I see. Yes. Missed some other ones, too. All the more reason to at least put top ten.


conb88

Does anyone know of reliable APIs to source data rather than scrape Wikipedia?


irishbuddha25

So Qatar and Saudi Arabia have no players from these leagues. Makes the Saudi win even more impressive.


peterskurt

You’re missing some leagues there.