LAFC has won MLS cup He played in two Concacaf European Champions League finals.
None of these games deserved the next match for the team.
literally.
Next to LAFC It is a game of 10 million dollars, which will The Mexico Club played América Saturday at Banc of California to determine the final participant in Club World Cup. The championship of 32 teams, which will be organized throughout the United States from mid -June, has a $ 1 billion record prize.
By simply qualifying for the event and playing in three team games, LAFC is entitled to obtain participation fees of $ 9.55 million.
This may not be considered an important prize for batons or Lakers, but it is a great reward for LAFC, which amounted to about $ 20 million last season.
“We know what is at stake,” co -chief of LAFC John Tournington He said.
Imagine that the main football team plays a game with real consequences. The bets are unusually high for a team in the league, which reaches 18 teams from 30 teams beyond the season, and the relegation threat is not present.
The real money will be at stake.
This is the money that can tend to cover the transfer fees or the next signature player’s salary, as it can open one of the three -player holes in LAFC this summer.
Thorrington preferred to emphasize the symbolic importance of reaching the club’s World Cup, and how the team will approach one step from its long -size ambition of becoming a global brand.
“The conversation here does not dominate the financial benefit here, but rather the competitive opportunity that this game and the championship present.”
If LAFC advanced to the club’s World Cup, it will be its opening game against Chelsea from the Premier League. Other group stage games will be against Es Tonis of Tunis and Flamengo from Brazil.
“I think it will be a special thing,” said defender Eddie Sigura in Spanish.
The tournament can also be an invitation to wake up for MLS, which includes two other teams in the Inter Miyami and Seattle Sounders. The league has a salary of salaries, as well as the rules of compliance with the coating lists that allow simple flexibility in how to spend its teams on the money. Football is a sport in which the difference is good like its weakest links, but the regulations force clubs to build high heavy lists.
As was the financial restrictions already gave MLS teams in its competitions against its Mexican counterparts, as LAFC relies on its intelligence instead of the economic power of its deep owners to reach the Champions League finals. Now, MLS teams will face opponents with almost unlimited budgets. Just two years ago, Chelsea spent more than a billion dollars in buying players in one transport window.
The MLS World Cup cash prizes provide a strong incentive to alleviate its rules. The value of winning in the group stage is $ 2 million each. The teams will be paid $ 7.5 million to reach a 16 -round. The hero will take more than $ 100 million.
MLS payments can also force changes to the collective negotiation agreement, which was signed when the club’s World Cup was still championship seven teams. Under the current CBA, LAFC players divide a million dollars, with the participation fees of 9.55 million dollars with the club remaining.
Sigura said the players were participating in talks about their compensation.
“The club will benefit a lot, but I hope we are as players, because the people who give everything will also have an opportunity to benefit,” said Sigura.
The next game LAFC also made a direct presentation of FIFA.
The opportunity of LAFC and Club América came on the LEón account, which was removed from the club’s World Cup stadium because it was owned by the same group that has another Mexican team in the championship, Pachuca.
Lyon qualified for the championship by beating LAFC in the CONCACAF Champions League final. Instead of the León’s Place to LAFC, FIFA was mainly invented a theater game from Air Thin, and he called LAFC to América, which was the highest team in the region was not already in the tournament.
LAFC gave at least an opportunity. Galaxy won the MLS Cup last season, but Inter Miami got the place designated for the host nation before the MLS qualifiers started. The alleged reason was that Inter Miami got the best record for the normal season in the league. However, widespread suspicion is that FIFA wanted Lionel Messi in the championship.
After all, money is what drives this championship and money is what leads sports.
