“The league for me is top is five or six leagues in the world,” says Eugénie Le Sommer, speaking about Mexico’s Liga MX Femenil, where she’s just started the second half of her first full season in Latin America.
The OL Lyonnes and France great became the latest big name to join the league last summer, following former teammate Amandine Henry to Toluca, coached by another Frenchman in Patrice Lair, but others have gone before the pair of former internationals to a league that has everything going for it.
An 18-team division where each team plays each other once, but twice overall in two separate competitions – the Apertura and Clausura – means 34 games across a calendar year, much more than the average European league.
Crowds regularly run into the thousands, salaries are good enough to attract some top names, and crucially
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