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...recent years. With legions of foreign stars lured by the piles of cash accumulated from the lucrative sale of TV rights, only a third of players starting games last season would have qualified to play for England. Foreigners now own eight of the 20 teams: Russian Roman Abramovich owns Chelsea, Americans George Gillett and Tom Hicks own Liverpool, and former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra owns Manchester City...
When the English soccer team Chelsea took to the field in Moscow on May 21 for the final of UEFA's Champions League, Europe's biggest club competition, its West London roots were all but invisible. A Czech goalie backed up a Portuguese central defender. Players from France and Germany marshaled Chelsea's midfield. The lone striker was from Ivory Coast. In all, of the 11 players who kicked off that game at the Luzhniki Stadium, only four were English...
...impact of such restrictions would be huge: fewer than one in five line-ups taking to the pitch in last season's English Premier League would have complied with the proposed limits. Arsenal, Chelsea's crosstown rivals from North London, regularly fields an all-foreign team...
...greatest possible number of England-qualified players coming through in the Premier League, but this has to be based on merit and quality," it said in a statement Friday. "And there is no doubting that foreign talent has aided the technical development of the English game." As for Chelsea, its amassing of foreign stars didn't help this month in the Champions League final. It was beaten by Manchester United. The number of foreigners in Manchester's starting lineup? Just five...
...Check TheCrimson.com for more updates. —Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover contributed to the reporting of this story...