I'm not talking about junior football - rather small / local (human?) league football, which is to say the original thing, played on grey days & watched by grey people. Whatever the aspirations of juniors might be in any field of life, it is only realistic that the wealth & celebrity status of big league & international professional football exists only for a tiny minority of especially talented players, with most of them going to play for local sides, of which we are particularly well served.

Like it or not big league football exists on an international level, as does most big league culture in general; this is an inevitable process of cultural internationalism, rather than globalisation per se, and does not reflect local interests other than what locals want to see as consumers, rather than active participants. It's also about big money & the best players, regardless of where they're from.

Two video clips by way of illustration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5AfX4YUag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH8TbX8zrYI