Honest question: how many "major league" level soccer leagues and teams are there in the world?
It always seemed to me that ALL the competition in soccer is diluted by the sheer number of teams in existence compared to, say, basketball where there is basically one league with thirty major league teams and mostly played by the top two or three hundred players. Isn't Messi regularly being defended by players who aren't anywhere near the top three hundred soccer players in the world? Or do I just have this wrong?
It always seemed to me that ALL the competition in soccer is diluted by the sheer number of teams in existence compared to, say, basketball where there is basically one league with thirty major league teams and mostly played by the top two or three hundred players. Isn't Messi regularly being defended by players who aren't anywhere near the top three hundred soccer players in the world? Or do I just have this wrong?