Comparing MLS to Global Soccer Leagues and Sports Trends

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00:00Where would you rate the MLS compared to the leagues like, so Premier League and then you've

00:10got the Champions League, you got those tiers and then you got La Liga, you got, I mean.

00:18When you talk about the actual quality of the product and the play that's on the field,

00:24it isn't even close to those leagues.

00:27It's not.

00:28And it's not a bad thing.

00:30It's just that in those countries, that is the number one sporting event.

00:36That is what every kid that grows up in England and Spain, France and everywhere, they are

00:43playing soccer.

00:44That's it.

00:45Now, things have changed in those places.

00:48Haven't we seen basketball become a bigger thing now in Europe to now we're starting

00:53to see kids from France and back-to-back years be the number one pick in the NBA draft?

00:58If I would have told you that 25 years ago, you would have said, no, absolutely not.

01:01You've got to be kidding me that France is going to have number one.

01:04But it's just, it's the flip.

01:06Now over here, you're getting some soccer talent like Pulisic, etc.

01:10But it's taken a slow amount of time to get there.

01:12All of these French kids coming into the NBA, we're going to be speaking French within three

01:17years.

01:18We won't even be able to go out.

01:19You won't even be able to speak English anymore in America.

01:22You'll be speaking French.

01:23People care about soccer in America.

01:30Do all of them necessarily care about specifically the MLS?

01:34Not every single one of them.