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Why doenst the A league champion play the MLS champion


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By rusty - 2 Feb 2016 10:45 PM

I think this would be an interesting end of year fixture, make it an annual thing. The MLS is very similar to the A league in both culture and format. They have playoffs we have finals. Neither league has promotion nor relegation. Both are up and coming leagues and shared the same suffering and fight to become respected and compete with other codes. Most of the clubs are franchise clubs. An American MLS team with perhaps one or two former Euro stars would be a much more interesting proposition than a shitty plastic All Stars game, anything we play America in is generally going to whip up a bit of media interest. League has been doing it for years with challenge cup.

It surprises me that with our similar football heritage and struggles FFA hasnt already thought of this idea to build links between the two leagues, or perhaps they tried and the MLS rebuffed?


Edited by rusty: 2/2/2016 10:45:44 PM
By TheSelectFew - 21 Feb 2019 9:27 AM

RoyalDave - 20 Feb 2019 6:13 PM
NixCrewCross - 19 Feb 2019 12:36 PM

This.
Why would anyone associated with MLS want to go to the trouble of organising something with a club in a crap league half way round the world when they have South America on their doorstep.
There's a comment above (3 years ago) that state no one wants to see us play Asian clubs - however the reality is we really should engage our neighbours more often.

But we don't because we idolise the American way of doing things. It's frankly embarrassing.