CONCACAF has, seriously, 5 countries where football is even the most popular sport: Mexico, some Central American countries and some of the larger Caribbean islands. Most of continent is enamored more with baseball, hockey, cricket and the American sports in the US.

As a whole, we really don’t care about football. I’ll admit, I find CONCACAF to be such an intriguing region, partly because there is such a disparity of passion for the sport. Go to CONMEBOL, UEFA or CAF and all the countries have football as the national sport. In CONCACAF, there are plenty of countries (even those that can actually hold their own in the region) where World Cup Qualifiers are barely given any news coverage. Places where football is just the 4th or 5th most popular sport. Add in the fact that these aren’t large economies that can support “niche” sports (which includes leagues, training facilities, and stadiums), and you get CONCACAF: with few exceptions, a collection of football teams (both national and clubs) dealing with an apathetic potential fanbase and very little monetary support.

What I don’t like is football teams seating on a plane for 12 to 14 hours in the middle of the week, with local games being played on weekends.

While Barcelona players fly a couple of hours to London or Rome, Conmebol players have to travel a quarter of the planet away to play a stupid football game.

Now that’s wrong. No matter how good Mexico are.