CONCACAF Champions League

..starts tomorrow. 3 games shown live on FSC.

 

I might have to check out a game or two. See if it is exciting or just a waste.

 

I am in!

 

I wish that the Copa Libertadores was open to MLS, but I'm stoked for this and curious to see how it plays out.

 

nice showing today by mls (0-2). the pitch in panama looked like somebody had spun brodies all over it. welcome to concacaf champions league.

 

Nice one, HD, I can't believe that's a club title....there was a one-hit-wonder "band" in the early 90s named "Joe Public" and everytime I see the club name, I think of their (insert your adjective here) tune "Live and Learn."

I caught some of the match and I agree that JP should've had 5-6 goals tonight.

 

Poor start for the MLS teams. NE looked like they were playing in slow motion at times. I did not see the Chivas game so I cannot comment on that one.

 

Alajuelense of Costa Rica dons a kit that is pretty much identical to the FFC away strip, down to the LG sponsor

 

You talkin' ta me??

 

Did the MLS clubs field reserve teams or starters?

The impression the results would give is that MLS doesn't care much about this tournament, thus making you wonder 1) why they're hyping it as a "champions" league and 2) why anyone else should care. However, if they started their regular squads and got this result? Ouch.

 

Joe Public?? Forget about anything else, Joe Public??? I don't care if NE fielded reserves and played in a gravel pit, Joe Public???

 

Unless it is the competition that will get an MLS club to the Super Cup (no matter how unlikely), does it really matter all that much?

Do MLS clubs even compete in that competition? If not, why the hell not?

Regional competitions that do not offer the opportunity to play world class teams = masturbation.

It's not (red)rocket science.

 

My thought, its cup football. We all know how that goes. Is Leyton Orient or whoever the *(%^ that was really better than Fulham? It took Man U the until the waning minutes of the replay to score on Exeter a couple years ago. (name your giant killing, you get the point) Does that mean the conference is much better than we thought it was? Or rather does that mean the prem is much worse than we thought it was? Or none of the above?

It was to this point Joe Public and Tauro's biggest game of the year, the MLS teams in contrast didn't show. So this happens.

And I don't want to get to long winded here because if anyone were to defend the merits of MLS that would get PCB all heated up and on a diatribe but Don it appears your alleging that MLS is NOT trying to improve the league, their contentiously trying to keep it down?!

ITS A CONSPIRACY A CONSPIRACY! GET OUT THE TINFOIL! because Don Garber doesn't want American soccer to out grow him, no no I got it, the MLS brass is in league with US soccer to make US players less attractive to Euro clubs therefore keeping them here! Yeah that's it that's it. Give me another minute and I'll find a way to work the zionist regime into it to!

 

Now Spencer........... it's "too", not "to".

 

Winner of CONCACAF Champions League gets the CONCACAF spot in the FIFA World Club competition (in Dubai this time around). Playing against ManU in a globally televised game is not a bad thing.

My dissappointment is this:

the four USA teams are determined as follows:
MLS cup winner
MLS cup runner up
MLS Supporters Shield winer
MLS supporters Shield runner up

Now, Supporters Shield is just a "different" way of saying that they won the league, and I understand the MLS Cup winner, but whey the heck should the MLS Cup runner up get a spot? Does the Carling Cup runner up get a spot in anything? No, it should be the following:

MLS Best Record
MLS 2nd Best Record
MKL Cup Winner (or 3rd best MLS record if this team already has a spot)
US Open Cup Winner (or 3rd/4th best MLS record if team already has a spot).

So far, the USL teams are showing up the MLS teams and with the current format, there is no way for a US-based USL team to qualify for this competition. Want to make the US Open Cup matter more, Sunil? Give the winner a spot in the Champions League.

 

So there is a reason, VERY GOOD REASON, to compete and win this competition. Pity the MSL haven't.