Concacaf Puts Stars Like Pulisic, Davies In Impossible Position
The post Concacaf Puts Stars Like Pulisic, Davies In Impossible Position appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JUNE 18: Alphonso Davies #19 of Canada passes the ball while Christian Pulisic … More #10 of the United States looks on during the 2023 CONCACAF Nations League Final at Allegiant Stadium on June 18, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Candice Ward/USSF/Getty Images for USSF) Getty Images for USSF After the news this week that Christian Pulisic will forgo playing for the U.S. men’s national team this June in friendlies and then the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup, the American soccer universe has been flooded with a barage of polarized opinions. The majority suggest Pulisic risks doing damage to the USMNT’s mentality and cohesion by passing on the last competitive event before next year’s World Cup. A smaller but considerable minority suggest taking a breather now is worth it if it will result in better a year from now. And predictably, most ignore the real problem: Concacaf’s unrelenting competitive calendar that manufactures high-stakes semifinals and finals for its biggest programs, and gives European stars like Pulisic, Canada’s Alphonso Davies and others an a string of impossible decisions. It’s not the number of total games Concacaf asks of its teams, but rather the number that are assessed a high level of urgency by virtue of being late-round knockout contests. In a federation as unbalanced as Concacaf, it’s an extremely predictable outcome that the U.S., Canada and Mexico compete in the majority of those. Arguably, that’s exactly the point since the Concacaf Nations League joined the region’s list of too-frequent competitions. While the Concacaf Nations League was launched under the noble auspices of giving more competitive fixtures to regional minnows, the reality is an endless stream of semifinals and finals played mostly between those three North American foes, whose rivalry stokes regional tensions that can be enormously…
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JUNE 18: Alphonso Davies #19 of Canada passes the ball while Christian Pulisic … More #10 of the United States looks on during the 2023 CONCACAF Nations League Final at Allegiant Stadium on June 18, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Candice Ward/USSF/Getty Images for USSF) Getty Images for USSF After the news this week that Christian Pulisic will forgo playing for the U.S. men’s national team this June in friendlies and then the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup, the American soccer universe has been flooded with a barage of polarized opinions. The majority suggest Pulisic risks doing damage to the USMNT’s mentality and cohesion by passing on the last competitive event before next year’s World Cup. A smaller but considerable minority suggest taking a breather now is worth it if it will result in better a year from now. And predictably, most ignore the real problem: Concacaf’s unrelenting competitive calendar that manufactures high-stakes semifinals and finals for its biggest programs, and gives European stars like Pulisic, Canada’s Alphonso Davies and others an a string of impossible decisions. It’s not the number of total games Concacaf asks of its teams, but rather the number that are assessed a high level of urgency by virtue of being late-round knockout contests. In a federation as unbalanced as Concacaf, it’s an extremely predictable outcome that the U.S., Canada and Mexico compete in the majority of those. Arguably, that’s exactly the point since the Concacaf Nations League joined the region’s list of too-frequent competitions. While the Concacaf Nations League was launched under the noble auspices of giving more competitive fixtures to regional minnows, the reality is an endless stream of semifinals and finals played mostly between those three North American foes, whose rivalry stokes regional tensions that can be enormously…
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