2018 CONCACAF Champions League Thread

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  1. DGreat

    DGreat Moderator
    Staff Member

    CD Guadalajara
    Mexico
    Oct 5, 2007
    El Ombligo
    Club:
    CD Chivas de Guadalajara
    Nat'l Team:
    Mexico
    Total entrance announced was 37k last night
     
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  2. Probably also got the most orange slices and Capri Suns.....
     
  3. justink

    justink Member

    Jul 15, 2000
    Toronto teams were 1-4 last night with the only Raptors spoiling the crying parties today.
     
  4. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    Wow, that's really bad.
     
  5. Regulus Tera

    Regulus Tera Member+

    None
    Mexico
    Sep 10, 2012
    Club:
    CD Chivas de Guadalajara
    Nat'l Team:
    Mexico
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  6. EvilTree

    EvilTree Member+

    Canadian S.C
    Canada
    Nov 20, 2007
    Frozen Swampland, Soviet Canuckistan
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    That's cute. With no trophies to back up the claim.
     
  7. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    Congrats to Chivas. They have now won the very first (1962) and last (2018) CONCACAF Champions Cup/League. MLS fans may be thinking they have been waiting for a long time to reclaim the CONCACAF throne (close to two decades) but Chivas fans have been waiting for over five decades!

    I look forward to watching Chivas in Abu Dhabi.

    Well done to Toronto as well on an overall very impressive CCL run.

    The 2019 CCL is certainly shaping up to be an interesting one.
     
  8. DGreat

    DGreat Moderator
    Staff Member

    CD Guadalajara
    Mexico
    Oct 5, 2007
    El Ombligo
    Club:
    CD Chivas de Guadalajara
    Nat'l Team:
    Mexico
    Tickets were the most expensive ever.
     
  9. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    It was kind of strange optics with empty seats in the stadium and thousands watching on a big screen outside.
     
  10. tigersoccer2005

    tigersoccer2005 Member+

    Dec 1, 2003
    North Bergen, NJ
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I never said they were being replaced
    It's possible the tickets may have been ridiculously priced leading to a lot of people watching outside on the giant screen.
     
  11. firefan2001

    firefan2001 Member+

    Dec 27, 2000
    Oswego, Illinois
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I knew he was going to miss after he put the ball it move before he kicked it, but yeah looked like he did it intentionally.
     
  12. jaykoz3

    jaykoz3 Member+

    Dec 25, 2010
    Conshohocken, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Funny how everyone forgets that Osorio missed TFC's second PK..............but hey, Bradley's miss cost them the CCL Title and all. Gotta push the anti-american player narrative. Surprised nobody has said that he'd have made that PK if he was still playing in Europe.........
     
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  13. ArsenalMetro

    ArsenalMetro Member+

    United States
    Aug 5, 2008
    Chicago, IL
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    No one's forgetting. Osorio looked like he was going to puke as he waited to shoot.

    Osorio, however, did not send the deciding penalty into orbit. Bradley did.

    John Terry wasn't the only player to miss in the 2008 Champions League final either, but he's the only one people remember because he ********ed it up so badly.
     
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  14. jayd8888

    jayd8888 Member+

    Aug 22, 2006
    Denver CO
    I'll remember this match for a very long time.
     
  15. glennaldo_sf

    glennaldo_sf Member+

    Houston Dynamo, Penang FC, Al Duhail
    United States
    Nov 25, 2004
    Doha, Qatar
    Club:
    FL Fart Vang Hedmark
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  16. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    Nobody will know what it is soon, as it won't survive as a huge every 4 years event.
     
  17. LaMascara

    LaMascara Member+

    Apr 11, 2013
    Club:
    Pachuca CF
    I don't know man, I checked Wikipedia and they haven't won anything.
     
  18. Suyuntuy

    Suyuntuy Member+

    Jul 16, 2007
    Vancouver, Canada
    But they got el Tata Martino. That's enough.

     
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  19. deejay

    deejay Member+

    Feb 14, 2000
    Tarpon Springs, FL
    Club:
    Jorge Wilstermann
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    A few more CCLs like that and I can see this competition really get popular. Lots of tense games.

    Toronto is the real deal. This finish reminded me a lot of the 2016 MLS cup final. They didn't finish quite strong enough but you can see the team has the quality to get to the final again. They still have DTAM to spend and an academy that can deliver better so they could be improved.
     
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  20. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    This would be a good troll response, but if serious than you have to realize that they've existed all of 1 year.
     
  21. LaMascara

    LaMascara Member+

    Apr 11, 2013
    Club:
    Pachuca CF
    And they are the greatest team in mls with less than one year in excistance ?
     
  22. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

    May 12, 2009
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Sounders and Fire got their first hardware in their first season... This excuse is not valid. ;)
     
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  23. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    It's kind of a joke that they are the best team. They are doing things differently though, with younger South American players, and a world class coach. So people are excited about them.
     
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  24. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    Sounders invented being the third team to win trophies in their first year.
     
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  25. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    #5500 Nico Limmat, Apr 27, 2018
    Last edited: Apr 27, 2018
    If FIFA are able to secure the rumored USD 3 billion per edition it will survive just fine. But with 12 UEFA clubs it will mainly be a European showcase tournament. As for CONCACAF I would expect some kind of qualifying event for the four annual CCL winners to claim the two allocated CWC spots.

    Also, expect the two remaining CWC's after 2018 in the current format to go to Qatar to compensate for the Confederations Cup.
     

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