If you didn't hear about the latest doings of CONCACAF President Jack Warner, let me fill you in. Earlier this year, Warner decided to change the current qualification structure in CONCACAF.
Before we had the final round of qualifying being a 6 team table where teams played each other twice and the top 3 teams would qualify to the World Cup with the 4th place team playing the 5th place team in a home at home series.
Now Mr. Warner and his CONCACAF thugs have changed it where seeding is in place with 2 groups of 4 with the winner of each group clinching a World Cup berth. And the second place teams playing in a playoff.
The beef I have with this setup is the fact that this ends the all important USA vs Mexico games that have been legendary matches during qualifying over the years. Warner is killing the momentum of his big moneymakers (USA, and Mexico) to try and win over the smaller nations in CONCACAF. Many people believe this is the case because Warner wants to get re-elected and getting votes from the smaller nations is the way to go.
Warner, you really have a lot of nerve to screw up what is arguably the greatest rivalry in sports, that is USA vs Mexico. Every time qualifying comes around I always look forward to those hot contests because those qualifiers are what truly tests your team. It's a sort of gauge of how good your team is and how far your team is in development.
And to many USMNT fans like myself we dream of going into Azteca Stadium in Mexico City and upsetting El Tri. Now its all over and Jack Warner is the one to blame. He has stunted the growth of his 2 biggest National team assets.
If you are a USA fan, or a Mexico fan or any sort of CONCACAF fan, you should hope to god that Jack Warner resigns or becomes a man and works to try and merge CONMEBOL (South American Confederation) and CONCACAF into one whole confederation because this new qualifying structure does more harm than good.
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