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Actually Quite Grabby News
Published 1/28/2008 by brucio at du Nord
... 4 spots. The Caribbean Islands get 3. 2 each from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama. And 1 each from Canada, Belize and Nicaragua. -So how will Canada determine their entrant? Will Toronto of MLS have to face off against Vancouver & Montreal of the USL First Division to decide the team? -And how the hell does Belize get a team on their own? I didn't even know they had a league. Wouldn't the Jamaican League have little more clout that Belize? -Here's the press release. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Copa Libertadores ...

CONCACAF rolls the League out
Published 1/29/2008 by Howard Hamilton at HexagonalBlog
Today CONCACAF became the final confederation to introduce a Champions League competition for the elite clubs in its region. (We'll ignore the abortion of an attempt at a Champions League in 2002.) Here is how the 24 entrants will be distributed: 4 teams: USA and Mexico 3 teams: Caribbean region (out of 30 countries, not all have domestic leagues) 2 teams: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama 1 team: Canada, Belize, Nicaragua The automatic qualifiers to the group stage will consist of teams from North and Central America -- two each from USA and Mexico, and ...

D.C. United Poised To Take On The Continent
Published 1/29/2008 by The Soccer Source at Soccer Source
... There is still a good month left before the MLS season kicks off, but D.C. United are fast emerging as the big winner in the winter transfer market. MLS' best regular season team the past two years has upgraded several key positions, while adding international experience and Latin flair--the key ingredients, perhaps, to challenging for the newly-hatched CONCACAF Champions League. ...

CONCACAF Champions League: A Good Idea?
Published 1/29/2008 by Tom Dunmore at Pitch Invasion
... Yesterday, CONCACAF officially announced its new Champions League tournament, to replace the not particularly cared for Champions Cup. Does this herald a brave new era of regional competition in North and Central America? ...

More Games (and More and More)!
Published 1/29/2008 by Mr. Fish at The Kin of Fish
... Yesterday Concacaf rolled out their newest of new continental tournaments: The Concacaf Champions League. 24 regional sides will battle for nine months starting this August for supremacy of our top-heavy region and a date at the 2009 World Club Cup in Japan. Is the new CCL an improvement over the Concacaf Champions' Cup? The CCC has been held as an eight-team Springtime tournament over the last few years. Let's compare the two on a few levels: ...

What’s the deal?
Published 1/30/2008 by Alex at Chivas USA
So what’s been up? Chivas USA officially signed their gaol keeper coach. Zac did a great job while he was with the club. Let’s hope Percovich can do the same. Lawson Vaughn went under the knife. Issues with the left ankle. We will be glad to see him back on the pitch in six weeks. Aston Villa is after our Goal Keeper of the Year and the price is right.. Raphael Wicky to Chivas USA? You guys thought I was crazy for keeping this rumor afloat. Maybe I’m not. Thanks for pointing it out Glyco. CONCACAF Champion’s League is official. More ...

Spooked By SuperLiga, CONCACAF Launches Its Own Champions League
Published 1/30/2008 by David J. Warner at FanHouse
... End result? The CONCACAF Champions League was announced yesterday. Modeled after the UEFA competition of the same name, the CONCACAF Champions League will take 24 top clubs from throughout North and Central America, including four each from MLS and the Mexican League, and put them through an autumn group stage and a spring knockout stage to determine the best club in the region. ...

Quick Guide to Following MLS From Abroad
Published 3/29/2008 by Rumor Mill at Major League Soccer (MLS) Rumors - For the time between the games
... amateur and MLS sides and everything in between from the divisions below MLS. Read up on it's history here. Finally, MLS is part of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF, our regional confederation) and takes part in several international competitions each season, one of them is the CONCACAF Champions Cup (to be replaced this Autumn with the CONCACAF Champions League) as well as the North American SuperLiga. Sides which do well ...

Quick Guide to Following MLS From Abroad
Published 4/4/2008 by Rumor Mill at Major League Soccer (MLS) Rumors - For the time between the games
... it involves amateur and MLS sides and everything in between from the divisions below MLS. Read up on it's history here. Finally, MLS is part of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF, our regional confederation) and takes part in several international competitions each season, one of them is the CONCACAF Champions Cup (to be replaced this Autumn with the CONCACAF Champions League) as well as the North American SuperLiga. Sides which do well ...

REPORT: MLS to Switch to Fall to Spring Season in 10 Years?
Published 4/4/2008 by Rumor Mill at Major League Soccer (MLS) Rumors - For the time between the games
... Two of those challenges include, the schedule of the new CONCACAF Champions League, which will put MLS teams at a disadvantage during the knockout round in the spring, if the current schedule is followed and ...