South American Football (12 Viewers)
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It sounds interesting as a concept, but should be totally dead in the water no matter how good it pays for one simple reason, will quote someones comment under the article:
Thats sick and logistically impossible headache to travel between two huge continents
Thats sick and logistically impossible headache to travel between two huge continents
Travel distances would be crazy otherwise. Imagine someone going from Argentina's La Plata to Seattle. That's a 15h+ flight right there
That's a good idea.
But i mean, this guy is a business man. I'm sure he thought the travel logistics problem over before deciding he wants to do it.
Let's see what his plans are.
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"Silva says that precautionary measures are already being put in place to ensure teams are not worn down in the trips across continents. The plan would see teams travel cross-continent no more than two or three times each year, helping to ease the load of thousands of miles of flights."
But i mean, this guy is a business man. I'm sure he thought the travel logistics problem over before deciding he wants to do it.
Let's see what his plans are.
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"Silva says that precautionary measures are already being put in place to ensure teams are not worn down in the trips across continents. The plan would see teams travel cross-continent no more than two or three times each year, helping to ease the load of thousands of miles of flights."
i think its a fantastic idea. would certainly increase the competitiveness in both federations and could reduce the gap to Europe if USA takes this seriously and starts investing more into football. if it would inspire the US to invest more into football, have better broadcasting, make better sponsorship deals etc., this could become one amazing project.
there are some problems though, like huge distances between some cities, which could be solved by making each group (im assuming it would have the same format as the European CL) play in a host city. but if it is played in host cities, when is it gonna be played, because the season is ongoing and it would be hard to fit in 6 games in the middle of the season with the national leagues etc. it could also be solved by grouping teams on regional basis, which would make teams closer to each other playing in same groups, but that would go against the main idea behind this, which is making teams from USA compete against South American teams. another thing is the financial gap between USA and the rest. in the beginning it should be no problem since the SA teams have more quality, but in the future it might present a problem (IF the US take this seriously like i said above). imagine the most talented young SA players going to USA instead of Europe...
as i said, the idea is fantastic, id love to see such a league, but im still not convinced it would work so well. looking forward to see how these issues are gonna get solved, if this league ever lives.
there are some problems though, like huge distances between some cities, which could be solved by making each group (im assuming it would have the same format as the European CL) play in a host city. but if it is played in host cities, when is it gonna be played, because the season is ongoing and it would be hard to fit in 6 games in the middle of the season with the national leagues etc. it could also be solved by grouping teams on regional basis, which would make teams closer to each other playing in same groups, but that would go against the main idea behind this, which is making teams from USA compete against South American teams. another thing is the financial gap between USA and the rest. in the beginning it should be no problem since the SA teams have more quality, but in the future it might present a problem (IF the US take this seriously like i said above). imagine the most talented young SA players going to USA instead of Europe...
as i said, the idea is fantastic, id love to see such a league, but im still not convinced it would work so well. looking forward to see how these issues are gonna get solved, if this league ever lives.
bigger(richer) market, the problem with south america is that teams cant have continuity since all their prized jewels are snatched sometimes before they even blossom. If this competition could mean that the bocas, santos, and sao paulos of the continent could stave off interest from minnows like udinese im all for it.
Just do what they do with the Asian Champions League - regionalise (CONMEBOL & CONCACAF) the group stage and early knock-outs and then go trans-continental for the later knock-out stages (AFC does it from the semis).
In AFC at that stage you could have Tehran to Tokyo (12+ hours), or even Amman to Sydney (18+ hours).
In AFC at that stage you could have Tehran to Tokyo (12+ hours), or even Amman to Sydney (18+ hours).
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