CaptainPrefrences on 10 September 2009
| okr said: @CaptainPreferences: It's harder for Canada's men's team because the competition is much stronger in men's football. We especially see it in Europe where "small" (and young) countries like e.g. Bosnia-Herzegovina or Slowakia are getting stronger and stronger every year, because their best players are playing in Europe's top leagues. There are only few really non-competitive small countries left in men's European football nowadays (mainly countries with only few pros in their national teams like - say - Liechtenstein). I assume the same applies to other continents. Women's football on the other hand is still a very young sport in comparison to men's football and that's why the countries who promoted women's football first (and more important: take it seriously) are still dominatiing today. Outside of USA and GER it was especially the Scandinavian football federations of Norway and Sweden who developed women's football early. |
Yea the standard is higher. My two cousins played in Europe for their universities and play for College of Charleston and York University. Its a lot harder to get into club teams in Europe in North America, you have to start off with a school.
But still, the Canadian squad has some decent players at decent clubs. If only they started. But anyways I'm off to footy practice.
