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Originally Posted by pria(kin)16
Really? I know MLS is far from a top league but I feel that the quality has improved and the league is still quite young. If you fielded an MLS all star team, I think you'd be hard pressed to put together 25 all star teams from other leagues that are better.
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I suspect MLS would be top 25. A lot would depend on definitions - are we talking the best team in the league or the median? A lot of European leagues have one or two teams that are good and a lot of mediocrity (i.e. Scotland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Denmark) whereas the MLS is probably one of the most even leagues in the world - a salary cap tends to have that effect.
Assuming that Brazil, Argentina and Mexico are clearly ahead of MLS and none of the leagues in Africa, Asia or Australia are (an argument could be made for Japan), that would require MLS to be equal to about the 20th best European league. Right now the UEFA country coefficients would put Cyprus, Denmark, Poland, Croatia, Belarus and Scotland around that level. I'd guess that an average MLS team beats an average team from any of those leagues more often than not.