Concacaf Champions League

Mexican Semifinales:
Santos vs. Monterrey
Cruz Azul vs. San Luis

The top 2 favorites to win the Concacaf champions league will come from these games. the favorites to advance in bold. Cruz azul simply by history is a big club in Mexico and Concacaf. And Santos Laguna on paper have the most talented starting 11 in Mexico. the are a super club. i say watch out with San Luis though.

 

I agree, with what Monterrey display against my rebaño and what santos displayed against Necaxa i find it more likely Monterrey taking the title than any other.

 

Just finished reading through this monster thread Is the new Canadian league that bad that its clubs aren't even allowed to compete against Toronto FC and the 2 USL teams for a tournament spot? If its way below the level of the USL(as everyone here seems to claim,) that would make it PDL level or worse.

One more thing, CONMEBOL and UEFA have been around for over a hundred years, which is really the only thing they have over us. Costa Rica has one of the oldest footballing cultures in CONCACAF, giving us an advantage(despite our size) over the rest of CONCACAF. Mexico, the US, Panama and Canada have grown up very quickly in a short amount of time(faster than other Confederations like Asia and Africa) and in the near future our best clubs will be able to compete with(although they won't be on par with or better than) the best CONMEBOL clubs, the same way CONCACAF teams have gotten favorable results against national teams from CONMEBOL and elsewhere.

I say(for now at least) fuck the rest of the world and concentrate and improving ourselves. Fuck Jack Warner too.

 

I can't speak to the overall level of the league, but two of the teams are the reserve sides for Toronto and Montreal.

 

The Concacaf Champions League is one of how many club tournaments held by Concacaf?

1. Concacaf Champions League
2. Superliga
3.

any others?

 

Nope.

http://www.concacaf.com/competition.aspx

According to Concacaf themselves, they run:

1. Regional men's and women's World Cup and Olympic qualifying tournaments
2. Men's and women's Gold Cup
3. Champions League
4. Men's and women's U-17 and U-20 championships
5. Beach soccer and futsal championships
6. The Pan-American Games and the CAC Games

The Superliga in't run by CONCACAF, it's run by the leagues. Other than the Champions League, CONCACAF mostly deals with national team games of one sort or another.

 

http://www.concacaf.com/competition.aspx
look to the right

 

i agree with what your saying and agree it could happen with san luis, but unlike san luis and atlante, Cruz Azul is big club and I think it will be harder for them to struggle in the CCL even if they are struggling in the league.

 

LOL How does the Superlider in Mexico never seem to be able to win the whole damn thing?!

It's almost like a curse.

 

Toluca and Pachuca have done it

 

I just saw the highlights of Cruz Azul vs Chiapas. I am surprised Chiapas didn't get banned after that brawl.

 

At least there are three years in which Canadian teams can try to prove themselves in the CCL, before the CSA can try to re-negotiate the qualification criteria.

Since the Open Canada Cup is now gone, I hope that once the three years are up, there can be at least one berth for a team other than the big three in the qualifying tournament - but that depends on CONCACAF's say-so.

On the other hand, the US Open Cup winner can go to the CCL, so a precedent exists for this kind of thing.

 

I think the 3 team tourney is silly and exclusionary.

But having Toronto play their own reserves would be even sillier.

 

Sorry if this has been asked before but 27 pages is just ridiculous....

Does anyone know who will be televising the CCL?

I mean if ESPN is showing the Euro Champions League can we at least get our own on like ESPN Classic at 2am?

I'm sure FSC and HDNet will play a part if not but most people don't have either of those channels let alone both...

So any news on that? Thanks.

 

I think being exclusionary is the desired effect. After Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal there is a very significant gap in level of play that the teams in Canada play in. Concacaf was who decided what teams would be able to qualify for the Champions League, not the CSA. So from that you can infer that they are protecting the integrity of the new tournamen by not allowing sh*t teams in.

Shall we call the Mexican Federation exclusionary for not allowing anyone from outside their top division to be able to qualify for the champions league?

 

Since Mexico doesn't have a "cup", no. If they did, yes.

Canada should continue to use the Canada Cup as it's CCL qualifier and open it up to all of the teams in the CSL that are not a reserve side.

As far as I'm concerned, every professional level team playing in a Concacaf nation (or any FIFA nation for that matter) should have a chance (however remote) of going all the way to the Club World Cup.

 

Canadian Soccer League teams are semi-pro. The three teams that are playing for the Canadian berth are the only fully professional teams in the country. FWIW.

 

In the US: Fox Soccer Channel in English and the Univision family (Univision, Telefutura, Galavision) in Spanish. Not all games will necessarily be televised though.

 

Didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.

 

I want to take this time and apologize to all MLS fans for any comments I had just made in the past 3 months. I will be supporting the Galaxy to see if they can actually bring Beckam to San Jose.

I just learned the real culprit who came up with this bullshit CCL and the allocations of slots is.

 

Cruz Azul is now qualified. They won today so they're in the final.

 

Finally. Tenemos cuentas pendientes con el Cruz Azul.