Thursday, January 18, 2007

SuperLiga: Now Watch The Big Leagues Ignore The Little Leagues in CONCACAF, Too!

One of the big criticisms of Champions' League play in Europe has been that the format favors the English, Italian, Spanish, and German leagues, and doesn't give enough credit to the leagues from Holland, Scottish, Portugese, and so forth. Now, MLS and FMF (Mexican Football League) are trying to do the same thing in North America by introducing the SuperLiga.

This league, basically a head-to-head Champions' competition with four clubs from each league playing each other in two groups, pretty much just IGNORES the fact that there are a couple dozen other federations with leagues in this confederation. It also ignores the fact that there is already a perfectly viable Champions Cup in this confederation, and that Costa Rican teams have won it a few times in the past few years. But where are these teams in the SuperLiga? No where.

If MLS had to learn something from Europe, why did it have to be that the money will always trump fairness?

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