MLS, please stop being CRAP
By: Alex | November 29th, 2007MLS, please stop being crap.
A new tournament was unveiled today between the J-league, the A-league and MLS.
The article read “The Pan-Pacific Championship (PPC), which will crown the top club from the Asian and North American soccer confederations.”
The four teams to participate in the 2008 tournament are: reigning MLS Cup champion Houston Dynamo and Haleiwa, Hawaii native Brian Ching; the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup Champion Gamba Osaka, with 19-year-old Japanese sensation Michihiro Yasuda and J.League star Yasuhito Endo; the 2007 SuperLiga finalists Los Angeles Galaxy, whose international roster includes English superstar David Beckham and perennial MLS all-star Landon Donovan; and a club to qualify from the Hyundai A-League Final Series, which concludes in February 2008 ahead of the Pan-Pacific Championship.
Top club……… how can the top club be crowned if MLS is not represented? How does a scond rate MLS team make it in an international competition?
Please remind me how we are suppose support a league that favors one team. Why are we here to support competition, when the MLS doesn’t create it.
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Sorry guys, I know it’s harsh. I’m just done with the smoke and mirrors.
No offense to your Galaxy Laurie, but they didn’t earn a spot in this competition, they bought it.
Is MLS here to create a competition, or show David Beckham off?
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To be honest, DC United is probably only half disappointed and half relieved to not be invited. Concacaf Champions Cup, Superliga (which did switch to real qualification) the new Concacaf 2008-2009 Champions League and possibly Sudamerica is still a lot of stress on a roster that doesn’t have any greater opportunity to acquire depth than Columbus? No thanks. Wonder how the Dynamo will handle it.
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Huh? I thought 4 MLS teams went. Now its just 2? And I thought 2 A-League teams went. Now its down to 1? This tournament is a bit fishy.
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Parading around the “jewel of MLS” must stop. Teams should be selected on merit, not by high priced personnel. Why can’t we follow the basic Premership model?
Regular season 1-4 goes to CONCACAF CUP (Champion’s League)
Regular season 5-8 goes to Superliga (UEFA Cup)
Regular season 9-12 goes to PPC (InterTotoCup)By doing this, we give a lot of teams the chance to compete within different formats instead of overloading the best 2-3 teams with additional competition.
It also gives meaning to the end of the season, because mid-table teams are fighting for a chance to go to Superliga instead of PPC or CONCACAF instead of Superliga.
If we want league play to improve, this is the format. Which makes much more sense than rewarding teams on a hot streak in an end of the year CUP Tournament.
I hate to make personal attacks, but Don Garber and his buddies need to remove their cranium from their rectum.
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DC United does not give two craps about this tournament. We’re busy with tournaments that already exist, and do not entail traveling half way around the world.
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Alex, you’ll get no argument from me. This is getting embarrassing.
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Thanks for the comments guys.
On a lighter note, no one was traded/loss in the Waiver draft today.
http://kornerpocket.blogspot.com/2007/11/mls-waiver-draft-news-equals-no-news.html
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Hi All.
Galaxy hosted their first pre-seasoner here in Feb. ‘05, against DC (DC 1-0 LA, on a penalty). It was the last (and first ever) pro soccer game in Hawaii, and attendance was, as I recall, 36,000+. Very respectable considering there were probably about 2.5 people here on this island at the time who knew who Cobi Jones and Freddy Adu were.
It was supposed to be the first of an annual exhibition event at Aloha Stadium hosted by Galaxy, but I think other things have gotten in their way since then (World Cup, the death of their manager, Beckhamania, tanking in ‘07, etc.) and they haven’t been back until now.
I for one am ecstatic at this news today. This most likely represents Brian Ching’s first-ever chance to play as a pro here in his native aina. I was planning on attending the first matchup between the Quakes and Galaxy next year in SJ, but now I don’t have to make the trip to see Beckham OR Dynamo, they’re coming to me!
The new MLS franchise coming to Seattle has also made noises about hosting some kind of pan-Pacific tourney as well, possibly also including a Korean team.
Considering Hawaii’s pre-dominantly Asian-American population, hosting friendlies with J-League teams is a no-brainer. I have been wishing for this for years and now it’s happening! A-League is cool and all, but Tokyo Verdy 1969, Kashima Antlers, Gamba Osaka and FC Seoul are higher on my ‘to see’ list.
I don’t care how well (err, make that poorly) Galaxy does, as long as Beckham and Co. keep raising MLS’ profile.
Aloha Stadium is gonna be PACKED and Dynamo’s gonna WIN the damn thing. That’s how they’ll handle it!
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Alex, I have a post and a poem on this going up tomorrow morning. (Two separate posts.) Be sure to stop by and check them out.
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What a total joke this is? I suspect that we will be showing off the Galaxy for a long long time, whether they win or not.
We had better not get screwed over for SuperLiga, although I am sure we are in. I bet they let those dolts in with some kind of an excuse like “Galaxy were finalists last year…so….”
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