Mexico’s top soccer league didn’t wait long to rub its latest CONCACAF Champions League title in Major League Soccer’s noses.
Liga MXÂ trolled MLS on Thursday night, minutes after Club America’s 4-2 win over the Montreal Impact in the second leg of the CONCACAF Champions League final. Liga MX used Twitter to send MLS a Spanish-language message about its participation (or lack thereof) in the FIFA Club World Cup.
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In English, it reads “The @MLS will be having a vacation this December … Again. We, on the other hand, will be heading to the #ClubWorldCup.â
Club America will represent the CONCACAF region in the 2015 Club World Cup, which takes place December in Japan, courtesy of its 5-3 aggregate victory over two legs. Montreal is the latest MLS team to come close to calling itself champion of the FIFA region comprising North and Central America and the Caribbean.
One of MLS’s stated goals is to send a team to FIFA’s Club World Cup, but the league hasn’t produced a winner of CONCACAF’s championship in 15 years. (The confederation adopted its current Champions League format in 2008.) Meanwhile, Liga MX sends a team to FIFA’s showcase event annually.
The Los Angeles Galaxy, Seattle Sounders, D.C. United, Real Salt Lake and the Vancouver Whitecaps will compete in the 2015-16 CONCACAF Champions League based on their success during the 2014 MLS season.
MLS’s decade-and-a-half-long wait to beat a Liga MX team when it matters most continues.
Thumbnail photo via Julio Cortez/The Associated Press
