The Major Leagues Conclude, La Liga Awards Announced

Arsenal advanced to the final!

The news thrilled all of Britain!

Over the past five years, the teams to reach the final had been Liverpool and AC Milan, AC Milan and Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich and San Remo, Barcelona and Chelsea, and... Real Madrid and Arsenal!

Bundesliga teams had appeared twice.

La Liga teams twice.

Serie A teams three times.

Premier League teams three times!

Was that not enough to prove the Premier League's surging strength?

As for titles, the Bundesliga had none.

Serie A had topped the list twice.

La Liga and the Premier League had one each, but another was about to be added.

The number of these major honors also reflected the mainstream view of the current era.

For a long time, whether Ligue 1 qualified as a top-tier league had been controversial.

Some veteran fans even often spoke of the four major leagues rather than the Top Five Leagues.

Ligue 1 was not included among them.

But as French stars put on dazzling performances on the world stage and won back dignity for French football across the major competitions, there was no longer any doubt about the Top Five Leagues.

Still, Ligue 1 was unquestionably at the bottom of that group.

The Bundesliga was much the same.

Due to its long-standing lack of internal competition, the Bundesliga had once been considered below the three major top leagues.

Many people even believed that Bundesliga statistics were no different from those in the Primeira Liga or Eredivisie—easy numbers to pad.

But others believed the Bundesliga still carried plenty of weight. After all, its giants had not performed poorly in European competition.

Yet no matter how it was discussed, the strongest leagues remained the three giants: Serie A, La Liga, and the Premier League.

By now, it had even