Players from Desirable/Undesirable Countries

764dak

Earnings, Performance, and Nationality Discrimination in a Highly Competitive Labor
Market: An Analysis of the English Professional Soccer League*

http://www.cgu.edu/pdffiles/pedace/football-soccer-draft-11-jse-ms0648.pdf

The results provide some evidence that players from South America may receive preferential
labor market treatment, but this is only evident in the Premier (or highest) division of the league.
In addition, this labor market discrimination appears to be a rational response from owners who
observe increased attendance with a larger presence of South American players.

A larger number of players from South America is
associated with a decline in team performance. An additional player from South America would
decrease a team’s performance by approximately one position, holding other factors constant.
20This suggests that South American players are over-compensated relative to their productivity
contributions.

Fans of
Premier division teams appear to be significantly more inclined to attend matches when the team
utilizes more players from South America. An additional South American player appearance
increases average season attendance by approximately 3 percent

. In other words, although there is some evidence indicating that
increases in the number of South American players has a negative effect on a Premier team’s
league position, these costly productivity effects may be outweighed by the revenue effects
(increased attendance) resulting from the existing consumer preferences. It is possible, for
example, that English fans could be attracted to the style of play (stereotypically offensive and
elegant) associated with South American players.

Salary Determination in the German “Bundesliga”:
A Panel Study

http://wpeg.group.shef.ac.uk/Archive/papers2009/53Frick.pdf

Fourth, region of birth is also important: Players from South America and Western Europe receive a considerable pay premium while players from the "rest of the world" are neither favoured nor "discriminated" against

The Effect of a Ranked Nationalism Approach on Measuring Salary
Discrepancies in Major League Soccer
http://media.wix.com/ugd/6c2efa_f0a4f5f299fb4384a6a0f9ae146fc402.pdf
http://cahnrs-cms.wsu.edu/ses/seminars/Documents/WPVersion1.pdf
http://jadrianwooten.weebly.com/uploads/6/9/0/6/6906533/weai_wooten_119_rankednationalities.pdf

A Brazilian agent told Alex Bellos a story about exporting Brazilian players overseas, \It's sad to say, but
it is much easier selling, for example, a crap Brazilian than a brilliant Mexican. The Brazilian gets across
the image of happiness, party, carnival. Irrespective of talent, it is very seductive to have a Brazilian in your
team."

Compared with the results in
Model (1), Canadian and Caribbean players still earn between 28% and 45% less than other foreigners, while
American players earn roughly 12% less than foreign players from outside North American (CONCACAF). This
result is conrmed later when players are evaluated by region based on the rank of their nationality.

764dak

Well, it seems a player like Soldado earned his big money move due to the fact he is a Spaniard.

EuropeanSon

So what you're saying is... Signing Willian will have cost Maureen the league if they finish second?

Cypher_sounds

764dak wrote: »

Well, it seems a player like Soldado earned his big money move due to the fact he is a Spaniard.

Yes and it was nothing to do with him having a very good scoring record in la liga for the last few seasons or that he has a very good scoring record to games for his national team.

losthorizon

The Nelson da Silva effect - I remember it well.

764dak

"He went from Rangers to Arsenal, failed there, and then where did he go?  To Barcelona!  You have to be a Dutchman to do that.  An American would have been sent straight back to DC United."

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

The chapter in the Alez Bellos book about crap overpaid Brazilians playing in the Faroe Islands was great.

HalloweenJack

Was going to post the same as above. The book is from 2000 but still a great insight into the industry of producing footballers to sell abroad that exists in Brazil, purely because they're Brazilian.

inforfun

764dak wrote: »

"He went from Rangers to Arsenal, failed there, and then where did he go?  To Barcelona!  You have to be a Dutchman to do that.  An American would have been sent straight back to DC United."

102 internationals, captained the team to a silver medal on a wc, scoring the goal of the tournament in the semis.
Was playing behind Ronaldinho who then had his best seasons of his career, voted fifa player of the year 2x with the back up of said Dutch player..
won the cl. several leagues titles and in his first 2 seasons as a coach won the cup and league.

Whoever wrote that quote there is an absolute bell end of the highest order.

764dak

inforfun wrote: »

102 internationals, captained the team to a silver medal on a wc, scoring the goal of the tournament in the semis.
Was playing behind Ronaldinho who then had his best seasons of his career, voted fifa player of the year 2x with the back up of said Dutch player..
won the cl. several leagues titles and in his first 2 seasons as a coach won the cup and league.

Whoever wrote that quote there is an absolute bell end of the highest order.

If van Bronkhorst were Indonesian he wouldn't even get to play for Barcelona.

Dirty Dingus McGee

764dak wrote: »

If van Bronkhorst were Indonesian he wouldn't even get to play for Barcelona.

If he was as good a player as he was he might have.

Skylinehead

van Bronckhorst was not a failure at Arsenal.

764dak

The quote came from a former Hotspur player.

inforfun

Must be a defender who headed way too many balls in a time that the ball wasnt water resistant yet.