Couldn’t find a specific thread for this. I’m sure random posts appear in random places.
But, something i heard on the World Football Phone-in, with Dotun and Tim. There is a real possibility that the Mexican league will combine with/join the MLS.
That is a huge move and extremely exciting. Just a random article on it i searched for the start of the thread.
Apparently they are now in talks of actually joining the two top leagues with Mexico and USA/Canada.
There was a time we in Australia considered us on the same stage as MLS, but they are so far beyond us. Of course there are many differences from financial to culture.
I’m looking at it from a populous , spreading football, marketing point of view in North America i guess. Not in the way of European Super League kind of way as the difference is significant.
Things don’t last and can be and often have been cancelled and changed, as this could , but this kind of thing can ‘unify’ football over there between cultures on the generic level. Combine finances between the two leagues and create publicity for football to grow.
I’m not blind to the other challenges and all the other shit that goes with American culture and all that.
Is it good for MX? Good for MLS? is it just more money making for fat cats? It’s a bit of all of those.
There’s a fair amount of $$ in Mexican football now, they outdo a lot of the South American clubs. Tigres beating Palmeiras in the WCC thingo isn’t a huge upset.
Some good shithousery by the USA to play their qualifier vs Honduras in Minneapolis where it’s currently a bracing -17c.
I’ve got a stream with Spanish commentary and I love the way they can commentate in Spanish but pronounce the US names in perfect US accent. I find when switching languages like this I tend to stick with the accent from whatever language the main talk is in.
Stunning indicator of where the US are at if they have to resort to this shit. I remember there was talk way back in the day that the Socceroos should have played the home leg of their final qualifiers against Argentina or whoever on a cow paddock in Darwin… but FMD this is the US, with a 30 team fully professional league behind them, against fucking Honduras.
The Honduras keeper was literally forced off at half time suffering from hypothermia…
There’s a shitty ground in Oberon that regularly gets snow, and when it’s not snowing the ground is super soft, the grass is long and it is even more all over the place than the old Tempe Sand Dunes from the first couple of Loko Cove seasons…
I still have nightmares about that place. We played a game out there middle of winter, probably 3 degrees and started pissing down rain. Game ended up getting called just after half time due to lightning. Never been so fucking cold in my life.