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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 1079666, member: 405"]
Good post.  I think people in the know, so to speak, know the quality of MLS.  For instance, when Didier Drogba left Chelsea and went to play in China for a year, he was asked by the Chinese media if how he thought the Chinese league compared to America's league.  Drogba didn't hesitate in saying the quality of competition in the MLS is much better than in China, even though that's where he was moving to, and that's the press he was speaking to at the time.

I think the last 2 World Cups have changed British perception of American soccer, too.  First, beating England out for the top of our group in 2010 really stung them, when they thought they were SO much better than us.  And then this time around, most people in England thought the USA would be 3 games and out, and yet England was one of the very first teams eliminated this year, and we again advanced, this time out of the Group of Death of this year's tournament.

Clint Dempsey and Landon Donovan showed English audiences that US players can compete in the Premier League.  It was really too bad that Jozy bombed again.  We need more US players to excel in these elite leagues.
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