The CONCACAF Champions League is strengthening and the Club World Cup has a lot to do with it
Santiago Banys is not a name that is recognized far beyond the borders of Mexican football. He is the president of Club America and before he was director of national selections of the Mexican Federation. An important figure in Mexico but not far away. Let’s just say Banys wouldn’t stop traffic away from Coapa. Recent statements did make his name very heard, far from Aztec soil. As president of one of the largest clubs in the region, Banys smashed with words the most relevant club competition in CONCACAF, the Champions League. Remotely directed by higher interests who would seek the return of Mexican clubs to South American competitions, such as the Libertadores, Banys say that CONCACAF “leaves nothing and costs for the clubs contribute in travel, hotels and the sports prize does not go in relation to the tournament. Economically there is nothing. “
“It’s no secret and we all want to go back to Libertadores and we’ve seen it. It’s a tournament of another level. We’d love to come back for sport and economics,” the Eagles prisoner also said. The latter would be the most important: the economic. Winning 1 Libertadores can mean a total income close to $ 22 million. The CONCACAF Champions League could bring the last champion of the tournament, the Tigers, a bag of US $ 780,000 for his victory. The competition of clubs of the CONCACAF rewards little, in the economic one, but in the sport one it grants ticket for the World-wide one of Clubs. This is not a bad toy if you find it when you blow it up. The contempt for Baths in the CONCACAF Champions League is not without its arguments. But all that would be about to change.
A few weeks ago it was announced that the competition format of the CONCACAF Champions League will change from the 2023/24 season. This new dynamic will divide the region into three groups: 20 teams from North America, 20 from Central America and 10 from the Caribbean. In this initial phase it would increase the sport incentive for the Mexican equipment when having frequent crossings before its pairs of the MLS. CONCACAF has begun marketing this new format so they are expected to announce substantial growth in each club’s revenue. When the figures for the new format are known, the numbers will make it very economical to appreciate regional competition. Thus Banys and several other club leaders in Mexico would be left without reason to question the competition of clubs to which they are due for the sports region to which they belong.
There will be another, if not several, points in favor of the CONCACAF Champions League and its new format. Access to Club World Cup, For example. The idea of an expanded version of the club competition it organizes FIFA would have been revitalized from Zurich and I can say that FIFA considers the new Club World Cup is played at North America in 2025, A year before the World Cup that organizes the territory and would serve as a set-up for the structure that mounts this World Cup. CONCACAF would be home to this first Club World Cup with 24 teams. Of the three places originally designated, CONCACAF they would add one more to be local. They could well be the two finalists of the 23/24 and 24/25 seasons.
The advantages of a guarantee infrastructure and how desirable the American market is for large European clubs make FIFA started this discussion. In January this year all confederations came together in support of the Club World Cup in its current format and also in the suggested new format.
UEFA also raises a new competition formula for the Champions League, With more revenue for clubs, as he also wants CONCACAF. the of UEFA founds the creation of mentioned European Superleague and strengthens the control of the organism in club soccer. the of CONCACAF planted to silence opinions such as that of the President of America. Santiago Banys may not be a well-known name outside of Mexico, but what he says has probably been heard in the offices of CONCACAF in Miami.