Since Canada will have 2 teams, why don't MLS have a team in Mexico?

Discussion in 'MLS: Expansion' started by XeneizeAZ, Mar 19, 2009.

  1. clebo99

    clebo99 Member

    May 28, 2006
    No way teams in Mexico should be in MLS due to them already having a strong league. I think the Champions League is a good way to integrate the two leagues. Maybe have an "interleague play" weekend where the games count.

    Canadian teams make sense. Mexico does not. Now adding Puerto Rico wouldn't be a bad idea...
     
  2. falvo

    falvo Member+

    Mar 27, 2005
    San Jose & Florence
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    The Sperliga does that too....
     
  3. Pompey86

    Pompey86 Member

    Jul 23, 2008
    NJ
    Club:
    Portsmouth FC
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Here's the logical response nobody seems to have come up with.

    Canada is a beautiful country where opposing teams can go to and feel safe. Mexico, on the other hand, is like our version of Pakistan. Opposing teams would go to play the Mexican side and their bus would be shot at by terrorists, probably trying to kidnapp them and hold them for ransom. Mexico is hell.
     
  4. falvo

    falvo Member+

    Mar 27, 2005
    San Jose & Florence
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    I'd imagine there are many Central American teams who would love to play in the MLS. Mexican teams I'm not so sure. Having said that I never thought any teams outside of the USA relocated to a different city but Atlante did just that a few years ago moving from Mexico City Estadio Azteca because its games there were not profitable. This was largely due to poor attendance at its home matches. They hoped that the move to Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo of Cancún, Quintana Roo, would grow back its popularity and improve attendance.

    Atlante began winning important matches, either at home or visiting. Either because of the move or whatever they gained by it in popularity, Atlante earned its third championship in its new home city, Cancún. That is unherd of anywhere else ouside North America. Usually teams either fold or go down a few diviisons but hardly ever move.
     
  5. Pompey86

    Pompey86 Member

    Jul 23, 2008
    NJ
    Club:
    Portsmouth FC
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    This argument is over.

    Mexico = Hell
     
  6. City Dave

    City Dave Member

    Jan 26, 2007
    Cleveland, OH
    Club:
    Cleveland C. S.
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah, because that exact thing has happened every time a US team has traveled to Mexico to play. :rolleyes:

    Have you ever even been to Mexico?
     
  7. Pompey86

    Pompey86 Member

    Jul 23, 2008
    NJ
    Club:
    Portsmouth FC
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    I was making a joke about going and getting shot, kinda...

    As for ever being in Mexico, no, and I don't plan on ever going. A fellow employee went with his wife for a week and were robbed at gunpoint, so... yeah...
     
  8. City Dave

    City Dave Member

    Jan 26, 2007
    Cleveland, OH
    Club:
    Cleveland C. S.
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    My sister was robbed at gunpoint at an ATM in the Cleveland suburbs, so... yeah...

    make sure you don't go there, too.
     
  9. piltdownman

    piltdownman Member

    Jun 24, 2005
    vancouver
    I go to Mexico at least once every Winter. Its a great place. I would highly recommended it.
     
  10. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    In 2001, late one night I got tired of a show that some folks I was traveling with were at. I went out to the curb and hopped in a green and white VW cab. He didn't speak English, and at the time I didn't speak Spanish. He took me where I wanted to go.

    99.999% of the people on the planet are just trying to get through the day, make sure their kids are safe and fed.

    Yeah, there is crime and violence everywhere. A bit of street smarts and common sense goes a long way. On that same trip, I started to head to a local 24 hour market in the wee hours of the morning. Surveying a darkened block with folks hanging out between me and my destination, I decided to turn around and head back to the hotel. Where the characters in the shadows waiting to mug someone? Who knows, but being in an unfamiliar place, it wasn't worth it. And that unfamiliar place could be anywhere from East Durham to Chennai.
     
  11. Pompey86

    Pompey86 Member

    Jul 23, 2008
    NJ
    Club:
    Portsmouth FC
    Nat'l Team:
    France

    I actually view Cleveland as our Mexico City. So... yeah...

    Apart from being a shitty city, it's quite possibly the single most boring city I've ever been to. The Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame takes all of 3 hours to complete, and your left to search from landmarks from the Drew Carey Show, the city's one bright spot in its otherwise lame history.

    Cleveland's City Mottos: 'The mistake by the lake' and my personal favorite, (of the football team) 'If it's brown, flush it down'
     
  12. TOareaFan

    TOareaFan Member+

    Jun 19, 2008
    Greater Toronto Area
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    Careful......Cardiff is the only team outside of England to ever win the FA Cup.....they were a regular participant in the top tier of English football (back when it was called the First Division) until the 60's....after some lean times they are gradually pulling themselves back up and will be in the EPL soon...with a new stadium!
     
  13. NYC_COSMOS

    NYC_COSMOS BigSoccer Supporter

    Jan 13, 2007
    Queens, NY
    Club:
    CA Vélez Sársfield
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    Argentina and Uruguay have the very same relationship IF NOT A CLOSER ONE and they don't share a league.
     
  14. NYC_COSMOS

    NYC_COSMOS BigSoccer Supporter

    Jan 13, 2007
    Queens, NY
    Club:
    CA Vélez Sársfield
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    Weren't the LA Aztecs going to move to Mexico City at some point ??
     
  15. NYC_COSMOS

    NYC_COSMOS BigSoccer Supporter

    Jan 13, 2007
    Queens, NY
    Club:
    CA Vélez Sársfield
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    For an American, I'm sure the same could be said in reverse from a Mexican point of view.
     
  16. GunnerJacket

    GunnerJacket Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 18, 2003
    Gainesville, GA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    *shocked to see thread still active*
     
  17. RD84

    RD84 Member

    Mar 6, 2008
    Tacoma
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Mexico will never have an MLS team. They would never want it. The USL outperforms our MLs teams in Concacaf champions play. The MexiMLS team would be seen as below second division.

    As for Argentina and uruguay having their own leagues, its because Argentina and uruguay are soccer mad. They can support major leagues of their own. There is no competition between sports in those countries. The US is soccer simmering. Just enough passion for the game to survive, but not enough to really make an impact. We "let" canada join our league because they make money and just about anything that makes money, FIFA will allow (provided they get their cut).
     
  18. HailtotheKing

    HailtotheKing Member+

    San Antonio FC
    United States
    Dec 1, 2008
    TEXAS
    Club:
    San Antonio Scorpions FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You do realize that the NFL is the only major "American" sports league that DOESN'T have a canadian team or two ... right ?

    It has zero to do with pride, that makes no sense at all.
     
  19. TOareaFan

    TOareaFan Member+

    Jun 19, 2008
    Greater Toronto Area
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    What about the Toronto Bills ;)
     
  20. piltdownman

    piltdownman Member

    Jun 24, 2005
    vancouver
  21. HailtotheKing

    HailtotheKing Member+

    San Antonio FC
    United States
    Dec 1, 2008
    TEXAS
    Club:
    San Antonio Scorpions FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    HA HA ... how true that might become.
     
  22. Razcle

    Razcle New Member

    May 18, 2007
    Waterloo

    Dude...I barely come on BS anymore because twats like you bring up the same posts and make the same points months apart. Like the fact that i remember your board name and I have no idea who you are is kind of pathetic. Why do you think MLS will not expand to Mexico? Umm because they have their own league already....You were grilled about this point before....is your memory span that small. The Canadian league you talk about is not a professional league...it is semi-pro at best, Hense why the top Canadian Clubs play in the MLS and USL 1. And no we don't have enough pro teams to make up a competative league as has been mentioned 1000X already. Hopefully this will change one day but not today.

    If you really want a Mexican team in MLS than discuss the merits of getting one in...stop wineing about having Canadian teams in the league over a team that would never work out in Arizona (if I remember correctly).

    [end rant]
     
  23. NYC_COSMOS

    NYC_COSMOS BigSoccer Supporter

    Jan 13, 2007
    Queens, NY
    Club:
    CA Vélez Sársfield
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    What are you this guys mother? Give it a rest. You sound like a know it all.

    Live and let live brother, live and let live.
     
  24. Macksam

    Macksam Member

    Aug 2, 2007
    Brampton, Canada
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    No, but he's definately right about one thing, the TS is a retard who just keeps whining about the same thing.
     
  25. Razcle

    Razcle New Member

    May 18, 2007
    Waterloo
    Obviously we don't know eachother, but as mentioned below this OP brings up the same whiney shit every few months. People like him are the reason BS is not taken seriously, and I wish it wasn't the case for all our benefits. There is so much good footy knowledge/opinion that stay away from this board because they think it is a joke. Thats a misservices to us all IMO
     

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