Success of English league kills England team

The English Premier is the best football league in the world. I’m at pains to admit that! Anyway, what makes the English Premier League the best in the world goes far more than its organisation. It has everything to do with marketing. In terms of the kind of football displayed from individual players to team talents, the debate of it being the best in the world might rage for days on end. In fact, even the 2014 FIFA Pro XI did not feature any player that plies his trade in the English Premier League.
So what really makes us glued to our television sets watching the English Premier League every weekend? As a brand, I think the EPL has a big audience due to how it is marketed. It rides on nothing more than impression. Its mangers have managed to create an impression that their league is the best. And that impression has well sunk into the heads of football fans globally. We all go nuts at the mention of the EPL. That is what marketing is, anyway!

But probably what propels this marketing is the fact that the league attracts the attention of players worldwide. The players are first fans of the league before they even play in it. The Americans ran the ‘land of opportunities’ propaganda and it caught African youths stuck in cyber cafes sending numerous applications to get the Green Card. Similarly, most youths in Africa who tend to play football play it with the sole motivation of one day turning out for an English Premier League side.
Forget Brazil for a moment, from August the football world will be meeting again in England when the 2014/2015 season kicks off.
The EPL clubs are competing for both monetary and silverware success. To get that, a club must be able to attract the biggest names in the football circles globally. Thus, it becomes extremely difficult for young English boys to compete and get starting positions in the top clubs at home— in their own league. Their league is now inundated with foreigners.
Except for Manchester United FC and Arsenal FC, an English player has to be extremely fantastic to get playtime at Chelsea FC and Manchester City. But even then Arsenal has perennially preferred to use young French and African boys who are cheaper to buy at the initial stage. The few English boys that make it to Arsene Wenger’s squad have been above average. There are not so many Jack Wilshires, Theo Walcots and Oxlade Chamberlains on the streets of London.
It is this huge competition for places in the EPL clubs that hamper the success of their national team —the Three Lions. Having eight English players starting for a top EPL club would be taken as enormous contribution to the growth of the Three Lions. Well, we haven’t had such cases in the recent past.
Therefore, the lacklustre display by England in Brazil did not come as much of a surprise. You get to think that the world, this world that adores the EPL, is unfair when all of a sudden everyone turns to laugh at the dismal performance of England when it comes to the World Cup. The English FA has to wake up and make certain bold decision on how to run its league so as to save the face of England. Otherwise we shall continue wishing them better luck next time!