31.   Although called a European league, Paris Saint Germain is the only non-English club taking part.

32.   Apart from stars like Hristo Stoikhov and Gheorghe Hagi, both nations have strength in depth and could feed the rich European leagues with many more players.

33.   As a result, contracts for top players have soared and a few European leagues have hoarded top talent without having to pay smaller clubs.

34.   As more players migrated, they brought home the superior training techniques and strategies of the wealthy European leagues.

35.   Because of the ongoing NBA labor dispute, this U.S. team is a mixed bag of mostly anonymous players from the CBA, European leagues and college.

36.   But French internationals playing in European leagues would have missed domestic matches if they played in Mexico.

37.   Canada had three North American minor leaguers on the team and the rest are based in European leagues.

38.   Celtic owner Fergus McCann confirmed the move has been discussed, but said a switch to some kind of European league would be more likely.

39.   Defending Portuguese champions FC Porto and Belgian side FC Bruges Sunday became the first clubs to claim titles in top-flight European leagues.

40.   Each NFL team must allocate six players to the European league.