grazorblade wrote:another way to compare is to look at champions league over the past two seasons (since the a league is improving rapidly its probably unfair to go further back).
The MLS is significantly weaker against costa rican sides and mexican sides than the a league is against k league, j league and guangzhou evergrande. Club world cup results would suggest that the two confederations are similar quality at club level.
Another way to check would be to look at friendlies between the two leagues in the past 12 months or so. But I cant recall any
Edited by grazorblade: 5/6/2015 01:35:01 PM
You would think playing in Mexico and Costa Rica would be a fair bit harder then facing Asian teams imo, the sport is a religion in those countries.
Also it's hard to compare mls to A league when one league has 20 teams and the other 10..numerous teams play at altitude and cross country games would be brutal, the talent is more then likely spread out leaving some teams thin...I remember the quality of the A league went downhill for a period post expansion but got better again when the comp was reduced again.