Well that's the name of this abomination. http://www.conmebol.com/articulos_ver.jsp?id=62013&slangab=S Yeah right... Important for our football... Also apparently this thing is now mentioned in the J-League official's site. http://www.j-league.or.jp/surugacs/ As this is CONMEBOL related cup i posted it here.
What's wrong with this cup? Would you rather see them go to another Federation? Whatever brings more exposure to CL and SA teams and TV coverage the better.
That's good, it'll give the Copa Sudamerican a little more prestige. Besides, the Copa Intercontinental has been played in Japan for decades.
My problem with this cup mainly is from where comes the rival, it would have been better, yet more complicated if they would've picked the UEFA Cup winner, or even for exposure issues, the AFC Champions League winner, but they pick the japanese League Cup winner? Although seeing Arsenal's condition this year they'll have their asses handed to them by Gamba Osaka.
1.- It's all about money 2.- The japanese league has a very good level. I didn't know about this until I saw some highlights in Fox Soccer Channel and it looked like they were playing at a similar level to the mexican, argentinian or brazilian league.
Yes the japanese league must be the closest thing outside of Europe to the southamerican leagues that's true, but i don't know for some reason the japanese league cup winner doesn't convince me and my opinion it would make it a more serious thing if it was the asian champion. And of course it'll help the exposure, if that JFA guy said is true that they show the Libertadores there, then this cup could eventually lure them to look the Sudamericana, to know their rival beforehand. Now it wouldn't hurt if in South America they did actually show anything about the J-League.
Are you sure? Because it was said the same about the Copa Masters and the Copa de Oro, and they ended counting them as official.
i thought it was more like a friendly thing, but with Grondona there he might want to make it official for his poor little Arsenal
I was pretty sure this wasn't an official tournament. I agree that playing against the Japanese Champion is not an outstanding incentive but at least it will bring Copa Sudamericana some tipe of international exposure. With time it could become a tournament with some relevance.
It still seems surreal that Arsenal won it, when teams like America, Sao Paulo, Bica, River, Millonarios and Colo Colo were playing it. Almost seems like a bad joke (?).
Well, if you see the current form of Arsenal then yes it's a joke. But the Arsenal of last year played a lot different, way better. Even in the Apertura they defeated both Boca and River, where they didn't do that well, and later in the cup they also defeated River on penalties.