News: Mexican teams QUIT copa libertadores 2009

This is interesting, I found it it an article about the CONCACAF Champions League:

"In light of Mexico's withdrawal from the Copa Libertadores, the Executive Committee directed General Secretary Chuck Blazer to assess the current situation with CONMEBOL competitions to determine whether continued participation by CONCACAF was desirable. He is to evaluate and take the necessary steps to either end the relationship or correct it."

http://www.concacaf.com/view_article.aspx?id=4739

Personally, I don't think they have the cojones to tell Mexico or CONMEBOL that CONCACAF teams can't play in CONMEBOL toruneys anymore.

 

That'd be the day, when the gringos start telling Latinos that they cannot play with each other!

 

Its not just latinos.
Its South American Latinos vs. North American Latinos.

 

I'd hardly call the Executive Committee of CONCACAF gringos, just saying.

 

nor to a Peruvian club

 

mexicans seem to be hurt by this

 

so Pachuca didn't get anything for winning the sudamericana?

 

Oh Snap!!

 

Well refering to the Mexican national team qualifying through Conmebol, i'm pretty sure they would take a slot away from Concacaf due to Mexico's absence and give the slot to Conmebol. So it would be 5 direct tickets and a playoff with a North American team. Concacaf go's from a potential of 4 spots to 3 spots. Conmebol would go from 5 potential spots to 6.

I don't see why other South American teams not named Argentina or Brazil would mind since, in theory the difficulty of qualifying would remaine the same due to the shifting of openings.

This is only thinking logically if hypothetically, the FMF switched federations.

I would welcome it. Conmebol and Mexico would be that much more competetive.

This of course is all fantasy and reality has Mexico as far as it's ever been from Conmebol.

 

Is not the biggest day, but it deserves credit. Not many clubs have achieve that.

 

Lets not make this a WR pissing contest...

 

Grêmio vice-president has said he will discuss with the president about protesting at Conmebol, because we see as a total unfair advantage to São Paulo and Nacional the fact they will be automatically sent to play the quarterfinals!

Our position is that they should have gone to play in Mexico, and if not, they should play the clubs qualified in 3rd position from Chivas and San Luis group. (dont know which teams are those... Everton and Lanus?)

 

for brazilians, argies, mexicans, egyptians and chinese are gringos too.

in Brazil
GRINGO = FOREIGNER.

this obviously disperses that idea about the origin of the word gringo (greens go!, etc)


according to Wikipedia, the word gringo comes from GRIEGO (greek) and was used in spain since the beginning of the 19th century to refer to non-spanish speakers.

the word was imported into Brazil and here it retains its original meaning (foreigners, non portuguese speakers), while in the rest of latin america, for some reason, it came to apply only to americans.

(in Rio Grande do Sul state, people from the countryside, specially of italian descent, are also called gringos)

 

Slightly different situation. Those games were only Friendlies. Still an overreaction IMHO.

 

according to ESPN Deportes, liga de quito also blamed the flu and called off traveling to NY for a friendly against the All Stars of World Hope or some shit....





i also agree. this whole situation has been blown way out of proportion.

 

I just came back from houston, lots of mexican cars sport mexican tags there......o boy....

does mean I can not travel around safe?

in any case....it will be 2 months before FMF and conmebol reach another deal that hands out next copa libertadores to them and money prevails over the oldest suramerican competition

FMF only has competirion in MLS and 2 teams from CR.....so, lets go south again. Is more an economics matter than health issue.

 

¡Qué boludez!

It'd have been so easy to play those games in the USA. Now, all parties are losing.