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Serie A has at least 15 world class stars (ie the better Italian MNT players, plus great Brazilians, Argentines, Uruguayans, Bosnians, Montenegrins and Colombians). MLS has zero (OK maybe one, Giovinco)
I would define a world class star as someone who's a game changer at the highest level. So either for club in the CL, or for country in a major tournament. And as good as Giovinco is, and as much as we all love him, I wouldn't count even him as a world class star.
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Great vets: there are 10-20 "names" in MLS, mostly older. Serie A has as many great vets (Toni, Cassano, Borriello, Klose, Buffon, Palacio come to mind in 30 seconds, without a web search)
It's funny how they point to De Jong, Giovinco, Bradley, Kaka, Pirlo, and Cole as being players who jumped ship and preferred MLS over Serie A. As if De Jong or Cole would be in LA right now if their teams in Italy had been willing to keep them around at full wage. Or Bradley and Giovinco, who were fringe players in Italy, getting paid ungodly amounts of money to come here.