Haiti's Violette AC had to abandon its plans to play the second leg of the Caribbean Cup semifinals against Jamaica's Portmore United in Santiago de los Caballeros after Dominican authorities revoked the permit to hold the match. The decision comes amid tensions between the two countries and after a Dominican nationalist group announced protests to prevent the game from taking place. According to reports from Haiti, the Violette delegation has already left on Sunday, while Concacaf confirmed that the match will be postponed and will be rescheduled for the week of October 26. The LATEST thing is that we are talking about a club that is already forced to play OUTSIDE OF ITS COUNTRY due to the insecurity in Haiti and that achieved a PERFECT GROUP PHASE, winning all four of its matches to deservedly reach these semifinals.

Is Gilberto Mora really worth $50 million?

We discuss the reported offer, the hype surrounding him, and whether Mexican football is doing enough to develop young talent.

We also get into Rafa Márquez's winless run with Mexico, América's refereeing controversy, Chivas, Cruz Azul, and the latest jovenazos, including Tahiel Jiménez and Brian Gutiérrez.

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Would that mean the top 3 that finish in nations league A plus the bye receiving nations go to Copa America?

Jeyland Mitchell and Josimar Alcócer have been revalued in the European market for €8 and €6 million in their clubs, Strasbourg Racing and Sparta Prague respectively. They are only topped by Manfred Ugalde who plays in Spartak Moscow. And now, very young players like Alajuelense’s Yerlan Sosa are showing great promise. Could this be a generation that will give Costa Rica a decent national team capable of competing in CONCACAF?

It’s been nearly 4 years since it’s been announced and not a lot has occurred when it comes to meaningful progress between the two confederations. You would think it would be more you know? I’d argue that a merger is needed at this point. Logistics is not as a big of a nightmare as some may think if it’s done correctly. Conmebol is falling behind in some aspects due to a variety of reasons. I think it’s time to reunify with our southern neighbors anything less hurts the game in both hemispheres.

After watching all the matches of the tournament, I rated each player on a 1–10 scale for every match, taking into account performance, statistics and context of each game.

📊 The three columns next to each player show:

• Apps – number of appearances
• Avg. – actual average rating in the matches played
• Adjusted Avg. – average across all 8 matches, with 5/10 assigned to matches without a rating

The adjusted average creates a common basis for comparison, giving appropriate value to both individual performance and a team’s progression through the tournament.

The Play-In will consist of four home-and-away matches, with the winner of each series on aggregate advancing to the 2027 Gold Cup Prelims.

This team I feel like come from nowhere and are now on the cusp of reaching their first Gold Cup. I watched a lot of their match last night and honestly was surprised, they can actually play.

I’d say this years nation league has been entertaining, but I will say the format needs improvement or change. Do y’all think the format could use improvement? I will say that they need to scrap the byes for the top 4, make an even 4 groups of 4 in league A. I mean the obvious improvement is include conmebol in the nations league. That’s if confederation executives were open minded…

Guatemala qualify to Nations League Quarterfinals.

Love it

Finally we had some luck on our side after playing so well in gold cup and world cup qualifiers but getting bad calls.

Bad call today to deny a goal but fortunately Matt “Enzo Fernandez” Evans scored a beauty.

Bring on Panama or Mexico.