what is the best Soccer (footbal) league

pick youre favourite

Totally agree with memo here... Premier league is entertaining to say the least. Some people prefer the spanish league, but the players are too pretenders. The premier is less about crazy moves and "taste" but a lot more of practical football, there's no pretenders, no wasting time, not fooling around to cheat just effective football...

Edited by jampa17 - April 19 2010 at 14:42

I don't know what bin means  please elaborate 

It's been a long time since I could say "X is the best league".

I grew up in the mid-90s with the Italian league and it was the best at it time; their reigning team, Juventus, played three Champions League finals in a row! There was also the superb (but not so efficient) Milan of George Weah, Baggio, Boban, Desailly. Also, Inter was great when Ronaldo joined the team, and so were Lazio when Eriksson started coaching them and Roma when Capello started coaching there. I also liked other teams like Parma (remember Asprilla, Gianfranco Zola, Enrico Chiesa and Hernan Crespo?), Bologna, Atalanta (the club where Inzaghi emerged as a great promise), Udinese or Vicenza.

The next "best" league" was the Spanish one, in the late 90s and the early 00s. Great times! Of course we had the amazing Real Madrid and Barcelona, but Valencia (who played two consecutie Champions League finals) and Deportivo La Coruna were also amazing. Atletico Madrid was also a top team then, I also liked Celta Vigo a lot and Athletic Bilbao.

Since the mid 00s the best games always come from Premier League, but only if both teams are from the big four, let's say five. When the bigger clubs play against the small ones the games are boring because they're very predictable, and if smaller clubs play against each other then it's usually awful, the football played being quite rudimentary. Primera Division is still much more enjoyable to watch (though any match of Barca except for one or two in the whole season is predictable, from different reasons obviously ).

So if it's to vote for anything I've ever seen it would probably be Serie A based on what happened there in the 90s, if it's down to voting on what's going on now, then no vote from me.

^ That wasn't my point. I wasn't thinking about the results, but about the way games develop. Either the big club defeats the small club (the most usual scenario) or the small club fights bravely and resists or even win (yes this does happen), the games always look the same... Once you've seen one match from each scenario, you've seen them all. Also, take notice that I didn't say Primera Division is "better" than Premier League in any aspect, just that their games are more enjoyable for me to watch because they have more variety. The only really good thing I've said about one of the discussed league is that the best games come from Premier League.

Edited by harmonium.ro - April 19 2010 at 17:28

^ I think the Germans lost it quite some time ago... Let's see if what Bayern did this season brings a revival or not.

I think Bundesliga peaked in the late 90s and continued to be very important in the early 90s. The Germans won in 1997 both the Champions League with Borussia Dortmund and the UEFA Cup with Schalke 04, maybe their best moment, then they had Stuttgart in the Cup Winners Cup final, then Bayern grew strong and played two Champions League finals in 1999 and 2002. This era ended with the excellent Bayer Leverkusen team who also played a CL final in 2004. Their league was for the first time in a while really interesting last year with Hoffenheim coming out of nowhere to terrorize the usual suspects, and with a very dramatic ending.

The French League was never too good, but I always liked the football played, technical and athletic at the same time, usually very spectacular. A lot of excellent African or African French players giving their best to become rich and famous like all the other who did it before, but after they got transferred in other leagues The first Champions League match I've ever watched was Juventus-Nantes in the CL semi-finals from 1996, and thinking of that made me realize that no French team has ever reached that stage ever since, until this week! Not only that there's Lyon playing a semi final with Bayern on Thursday but there was also a second French team in the CL quarter finals. Does this mean anything? Can't tell. [Wait, there was also AS Monaco who played the CL final in 2003, sorry for missing that].

The title of best league goes back and forth between England, Italy and Spain. At the moment maybe Spain is top - they certainly have Barcelona, the best team. France and Germany are both pretty strong and the German grounds seem very full!

England is my favourite for entertainment though, if not always overall quality, so i vote for that.

England. Always was, always will be.

Paganini was Italy's most virtuosic soccer player