Messi can’t stop leaving the cup league forever

Lionel Messi, left, glory with David Ruiz celebration after the semifinals of the cup league between Inter Miami CF and Orlando City in Stylejum Chase on Wednesday.

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The second time in three years organizers League Cup are blessed with the ideal final in terms of drawing media attention fully in the presence of a player.

The most beautiful line of performance Lionel Messi with Inter Miames may still be his first seven boats with boats, when he scored a stunning 10 goals to run club on his first league Cup Crones 2023. Years. It included that in Nashville before and Nashville could be the most appropriate performances in Nashville.

Now, After reaching twice and adding help in the last 15 minutes Miami is a 3-1 semifinal victory on Orlando on Wednesday evening, on Sunday night, in the morning in 2025. Years in seats that could set all kinds of new records in terms of commercial metrics.

Perfect adjustment

Seattle was among the most successful League markets, because Joined MLS in 2009. years, regularly ranked near the top on average league of 1. Days and conquers seven main trophies. With the last of them, Seattle became the only Club Club Club, winning the League of Concacaf League Champions 2022 and temporarily stop the dominance of the MKS League in the event.

The result of the club with that gender hosting Messi’s Miami is the expectation that tomorrow will be significantly crossing the tournament, and perhaps resold the entire level of the lumen, which usually sees the lower level only, only the lower level only lower levels.

It should also result in a large number of viewers, with a match available through air (in Spanish) in markets with local arrangements for decoration, on most univizia / Tudin, and also on Apple TV MLS season season season.

Papered for problems

The danger, however, is that MLS and the MKS League – who work together at the event – see the presumed commercial success in Sunday final and still believes that the three-year-old tournament has been solved by two very obvious problems:

1. Format remains unfounded to MKS team league
2. At the end of the summer weather, it results in a tired tired

At 3. years of events, MLS and League MX tried New format engineer It would be fairer to Mexican clubs through the first phase of the game, with Mexican teams competed with each other only compared to comparison that would guarantee improvement in the Nockout phase.

It is guaranteed four Mexican side among the eight quarterfeignists, placed directly against four MLS enemies. But also guaranteed that there will be a chance that the result follows: a second consecutive semifinal circle containing only MLS teams, in the tournament Explicitly designed to take advantage of the natural rivalry between two leagues and the popularity of the MKS League on the American soil.

And playing quarterfinals in the middle in the middle, 10 days after the competition of the Mexican side returned home, probably created an acute disadvantage in those quarterfinal games than in the game of early phase. We see that it is often in the Concacaf game, where the advantage of the domestic field usually acts to be higher than in MLS or League MKS league.

Continuous adjustment are probable

The last problem can eventually solve whether MLS ends up – they expect as much – At the schedule of Pad-Spring. This would release the league to challenge the entire tournament in a standard continental format in the middle level for several months, not to ask viewers to digest 54 matches of phase tournament matches in more than 10 days.

The problem with the last approach is that the time of late July is directly followed by other prestigious international tournaments. This year it was Golden Tea Concacaf and FIFA Club World Cup. Next year it would be the World Cup. It is impossible to imagine even the most modern football fans have few viewers in the weeks immediately, when playing League Cup.

Another option is to switch the tournament on December / January event that is played exclusively in warm weather MLS (and we hope the League League is the MX). This would help MLS pray some of the coldest months in the format of falling that spring.

The good news is that the previous change format points to a constant awareness of problems that will not disappear when Messi’s toy career is finished.

In the vacuum, maybe these problems wouldn’t even be so important. But as an event that serves as a qualifier for the CONCACAF Champions Cup, it is difficult to correct MLS League dominance with Mexican teams’ Domination of CONCACAF, which was played as a true event in the house for more than two decades. And underlay the attendance of a league glass – which is averaging several thousand lower than MLS and the MKS average league – also reinforce the need to set up.