In an exclusive talk with ESPN Digital, Mikel Arriola has considered that a unified competition would mean having one of the best leagues in the world
MEXICO CITY – The president of the MX League, Mikel Arriola, Seconded the words of the president of the FIFA, Giani Infantino, what has assured that a merger between the Mexican championship with MLS would result in the best tournament in the world, And noted that this merger would yield to a $ 1.5 billion business.
“Yes, we are already talking about this on both sides, it is recognized that there is an opportunity to resize the two leagues in volume, size, if you add the MX League and MLS, we’re talking we’re worth $ 1.5 billion“We would be at other levels,” he said MX League, Mikel Arriola, In exclusive interview with ESPN Digital.
The merger project between the Mexican tournament and the United States is expected to be consolidated in 2026, Just in the year in which Mexico and the country of the bars and stars, in addition to Canada, act as the organizers of the World Cup. The union would catapult to both tournaments above the league of Spain and Italy.
“It will be a process of permanent growth and 2026 should be a year in which they will mature, or have measurable effects, which were taken advantage of over the next five years, let’s say 2026 will be a climax,” he said. Mikel Arriola.
en United States, There is an audience of 60 million people who follow the MX League and has a purchasing power seven times greater than Mexican fans, this would make it possible for local clubs to have figures like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the future.
“I didn’t say it, he said it Infantino, we would be at the level of the best leagues in the world. Dreaming that the next step is to have here or in the United States to the Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, maybe in a phase of finishing his career, imagine that he could come here, Messi playing in Miami or a club from here to take him to the United States, so I think Infantino was so precise in that statement, “he added.
seconds Mikel Arriola: “Any of the 18 teams in the MX League have followers in any city of the United States“And making the project possible would help ‘cover up the economic collapse that was created with the Pandemic,’ and that would extend to the Women’s MX League ia la MX Expansion League.
“It is very encouraging that at the level of the President of FIFA it gives so much importance to the two leagues, also that there is a greater rapprochement between the two tournaments. Given the unique phenomenon of football in the world, how good it is for the FIFA president to identify it, the fact that a local football is consumed in another country, the size of the United States. There are no pairs of countries, regions, where the consumption of football occurs in these orders of magnitude, in these growth rates and in these dimensions, it is encouraging that President Infantino has analyzed it. “