European Soccer Gets Underway in the Premier League and La Liga

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Olympics are over, but in Europe, the soccer season is just about to get underway. In England, Premier League football begins on Friday, and the question everyone needs answered? Can anyone topple Manchester City from the top of the heap? Meanwhile, further south in the continent, La Liga starts on Thursday. And the league with the most star power on the map, welcomes the best player on the planet in Kylian Mbappé, to its biggest brand, Real Madrid. Today, ESPN’s Luis Miguel Echegaray tells us everything we need to know ahead of the start of two of the biggest soccer leagues on the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Luis Miguel Escheri, the international soccer tournaments are over.
0:05.0	We are on to a new season of the European League, sir.
0:09.0	Where are you on this? How are you excited are you?
0:12.0	I am so excited. on this is my bread and butter clintin yes this is my bread and butter
0:18.4	Clinton ye's this is what I do I don't sleep I don't blink I don't breathe I talk European club so okay let's do it okay
0:26.1	so one of the things I love about European football is not necessarily the club to club
0:30.4	rivalries or even tables but often like the comparisons between leagues in terms of competition within each nation.
0:37.0	We're seeing sort of a heyday of collective talent, but the two at the top,
0:41.0	La Liga and the Premiership, where are they respectively in this Milan?
0:44.6	Yeah well let's begin with the Premier League CY. You know when we're just
0:49.9	literally talking about generating revenue the Premier League is the king you talking about generating revenue, the Premier League is the king, you
0:54.3	talking about 7.5 billion dollars bringing in due to sponsorships, just the
0:59.8	overall popularity of the League itself in terms of axis and rights.
1:03.6	And then as you mentioned, La Liga, which you can watch US sports related on ESPN of course,
1:09.1	is right around there with the Bundesliga as well.
1:11.8	Gotta shout out the German Bundes Liga
1:13.7	because they also generate around the same,
1:15.6	which is around 4.09 billion dollars every season.
1:20.8	But make no mistake about it. This is a money-making machine and the
1:26.8	Premier League also because of the competition, just the appeal of talent, the
1:31.1	money that it generated in terms of getting players and paying their wages,
1:35.8	the Premier League is the absolute king around the globe, not just the US and not just the UK.
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