Comments on: Superliga Time. For “Bragging Rights.” (Because Who Needs $1m?)

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:24:13 +0000

Paul, my opinion is that it’s less “MLS has no idea what they’re doing” than “The contracts and legalities haven’t yet caught up with reality.”

In the early years EVERYTHING was structured to keep the league itself financially viable “so we won’t end up like NASL.” Being recognized as a soccer presence in the world was way down the list.

That’s changed a fair bit, and I think the next bruising round of negotiations is going to change things a lot.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:24:04 +0000

It seems kind of pointless to talk like games between the US and Mexico have many bragging rights implications. The $1 million makes it more worthwhile but not when they can’t figure out where that money should go. This story seems like more proof that the MLS has no idea what they’re doing.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:59:15 +0000

The FMF teams take this “tournament” (see what I did there?) as warm ups, demonstrated by the fact that both Atlas and Tigres traveled to the US with their younger players and not their starting team. Also, at least on the Spanish commentating they’re still talking about the mil

By: Al

Al — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:27:46 +0000

I remember two years ago somebody in the comments said something like “this is another way for the US to try to prove that they are better at soccer than Mexico”. It made sense…

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:39:46 +0000

Jon, I considered describing SuperLiga as “probably not the most pointless tournament in the universe, except that I can’t think of any that are more.” But I’ll save that for my next SuperLiga post. :-)

By: jon

jon — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:08:42 +0000

i try to care….yet….