Soccer is big business

There is a big debate about which country's soccer league is the strongest, with Italy, Spain, Germany and England as contenders. The big teams have the largest sports merchandising revenues in the world, and pay the top salaries to attract the best players from all over. When the national teams of Brazil and Argentina assemble for the World Cup and other big competitions most of their players fly home from their club teams in Europe.

Here a shop features jerseys with the names of Milano's current heartthrob strikers: Inter's Adriano, a Brazilian, and AC Milan's Shevchenko, a Ukrainian.