2018 CONCACAF Champions League Thread

MLS is failing Canadian players! Jokes. I make them.. Poorly.

 

I think most have moved on from that after the homegrown deal was done under Montagliani, which is more than fair.

The attention/scrutiny is now aimed at how poorly the 3 Canadian MLS clubs have been developing players over the years.

Osorio played his youth soccer first in Brampton, Ontario and then in Uruguay. He's not a product of TFC academy.

 

could easily show 5 minutes of this exact problem in matches going back to 2007. There was a time when this wasn't happening though, such as when Beckerman or Cameron or Edu were played at DM. Then he could run around and do important stuff everywhere! Shame everyone seemed to think that was a bad idea. I happen to like St. Peterburg in the summer.

 

Funny idea but no. Rapids more unifying in Colorado than national teams are (i.e. Rapid fans include American, Mexican, El Savadoran, Europeans, etc...). But I'd take this team over the current Rapids line-up.

 

WOW!!!! It's been awhile since I heard being called that.......I stand by ALL my opinions/comments about him.

 

And no matter how much anyone values it, it will never determine the league champion.

 

Good for you but you're part of a small minority (of Canadians) that feels the way you do.

 

Well, real sports in the US don't count the regular season title since the playoffs/championship are what really matter.

 

"real" sports? dafuq?

 

This is a fantastically stupid sentiment and you really need to defend it, because it looks like you're claiming that the NPB is better than MLB.

 

Well then, let's see what Canada does. Ask the average Canadian who won the Stanley Cup the last 5 years and who won the President's Trophy in that same timespan. They'll have a much better chance at the first because the regular season title is for losers.

Or go with Mexico. How many know the total Liguilla wins for their team vs how many times they finished atop the regular season.

The Europoser crap where winning the regular season matters because they weren't smart enough to create something else is beyond old.

We won't even get into how horrendous that baseball example was.

 

Unless I google it, I have no idea. No one cares about the president cup. That's what playoffs does, only the Stanley cup matters

 

"World wide"

Colombia has playoffs too. And 2 champions per year, as Argentina and México.

 

As far as I am concerned, the real champion of Mexico is crowned annually in Los Angeles in the Campeon de Campeones game.

 

I think it would be best for everyone involved (but mostly you) if you stopped posting.

 

Sounds like loser talk.

When’s the last time a Canadian team won either? Google that.

Thx,

Jay!

 

Not really impressive for a 24 team competition with 5 MLS teams

 

93 and Canadians have been winning the cup for the US cities.
You're welcome

 

TV ratings aren't good and you know that. I must have missed the millions that tuned in to watch TFC raise the SS. I'm not talking TFC supporters or fans but Canadians in general. I'm accurate to say that those who cares about the SS are really in the minority.

TFC success is what? 2 years old? Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. TFC passed the Argos in importance recently and TFC still have a lot of work to do to gain relevance outside the GTA, dare I say within the GTA.

Used to be a huge sport radio listener and it literally took the TFC-Montreal derby playoffs for MSM to give MLS the attention it deserved. Prior to that, they just wouldn't talk about it and were constantly making fun of it. I get it, fans are all in, but said fans are the minority, and it's very recent that TFC got mainstream attention.

 

If Canadians really cared about national pride, they’d be lining up to move back to Canada once their rookie contracts ended.

Thx,

Jay!

 

Depends on who disagrees and how they do so. I 'm mostly interested in reasoned analysis which shouldn't be all the unreasonable in an news and analysis forum. So I'm probably not all that kind to people with strong opinions that are unsupported by reality.

That like that happened all the time in MLS up until recently. When a teams were successful, the cap forced them to dismantle their teams because the successful players deserved to get paid and the money wasn't there. So each seasons MLS team enter the competition severely weakened. With the introduction of new funds, this hasn't been the case for the past two years. My views on this were pretty well documented in Concacaf forum before LigaMX vs MLS matches.