Why football failed to catch on in certain countries

[DonFerrari]

Ka-pi96 said:

DonFerrari said:

Brazilian teams have won a lot of international championship even when fragmented.

A lot easier to have a single or two very strong teams than have 10-15 strong ones.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_clubes_campe%C3%B5es_mundiais_de_futebol

Also when you have a very very strong team like Real Madrid playing the rest of the Spanish League RM is playing high level soccer but the others aren't really so saying the league is of high level isn't quite right. Would say that Euro Cup may be little ahead than Taça Libertadores on quality, but the national leagues of europe not so much. The truth is just that some of these leagues have more money to pay for more stars, but concentrated on like 2 or 3 teams on a season.

I would say NBA have higher level than Olympic championship exactly because there are more good teams than Olympic where for several years USA dominated with easyness.

Yep, I have to agree England and France are a lot more competitive than the other national leagues, that may also be the reason why they aren't as frequently Euro champions or World champions because there are a lot of leveled teams and the power doesn't concentrate to much.

Well the French league was more competitive. These days it might as well just be renamed the PSG League though

Although I was actually referring to the English Championship (2nd division). The top division is more competitive than other top European leagues, but the Championship is much more competitive than that.

I don't think league competitiveness really has any impact on the national team though, especially these days when top countries have their best players spread over a bunch of different leagues rather than just teams.

Understood about the (2nd division) Brazilian is also quite competitive, but I don't follow closely to say how much.

I wasn't saying league competitiveness have impact on national team. My point was that the most competitive the league is then there will be more teams competing, so the power will be spread out, so when these teams for for EuroCup they usually will be weaker than teams from countries that have 1 or 2 strong teams.