The mls, the main soccer league in the United States, began its journey in 1996 after the World Cup held in this country. With only 10 teams and some pretty special rules, quickly score it football player profiles with Americans joining the local team and plenty of Latin American talent, especially outside of Argentina and Brazil.

As time passed, soccer became established and gained importance in the United States, more money was invested in Major League Soccer and began to arrive. European stars What David Beckham, Thierry Henry and later Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, David Villa, Andrea Pirlo, Kaká, Didier Drogba or Zlatan Ibrahimovic, all close to retirement. The same happened with other prominent Latin American football players, such as Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Cuauhtémoc Blanco or Marcelo Gallardo.

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But today, although some European stars are still looking for that “golden pension” in the United States – this is the case with Giorgio Chiellini or Gareth Bale and indeed the possibility that Leo Messi sign up in the near future the league changed profile. Is also able to export talent to Europeas the other leagues in America tend to do.

The Argentinian striker Valentin Castellanoswho came to the United States at the age of 19 after not playing professional soccer in Argentina and was purchased by CityGroup (an organization that has Manchester City from England and New York City from the United States as two of its most important branches) was the MLS leading scorer in the 2021 season, he is currently set to repeat the event in 2022 and all indications are that, having had interest from River Plate and a number of Premier League clubs, he will move to Spain to play for Gironaanother club owned by the City Group.

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Taty Castellanos will play his farewell game with NYCFC this week and then his move to Girona will be completed in the coming days. 🇪🇸🇺🇸🤝 #MLS

City Football Group are ready to do so, as they want Taty to try out the La Liga experience this season.

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 19, 2022

Castellanos’ story is one of success, but it is far from the only one of recent times. the from Miguel Almiron is the most important: the Paraguayan midfielder went from being a personality in Argentine football with Lanus to Atlanta United and from there directly Newcastle United of the Premier League. It is the most expensive sale in MLS history according to Transfermarkt: €24 million.

The local MLS figures that have gone to Europe and the comparison with Mexico and Argentina

Also, more and more American soccer players are leaving MLS for Europe for millionaire numbers: the goalkeeper Gabriel Slonina from Chicago Fire, just 18 years old, is set to join Chelsea. Ricardo Pepi jumped from Dallas to Bundesliga, What Kevin Paredes did it by DC United or Alphonso Davis from Vancouver.

Brenden Aaronson, Daryl Dike, Bryan Reynolds, Gianluca Busio and Tajon Buchanan are other players under the age of 22 that MLS has exported to Europe 6 million euros and above, all from January 2021 onwards. It is the same amount of sales for this amount in Europe as the argentine football (which sells more and more soccer players to MLS) and more of those manufactured by the Mexican football.