Postseason Playoffs Shift to Wednesdays in US and Canada

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00:00All games played in the U.S. and Canada,

00:03but starting the post-season,

00:06the playoffs are gonna be played on Wednesdays

00:08to try to kind of mimic this Champions League calendar

00:12where teams are playing their domestic leagues

00:14on the weekend and their international games

00:17on the midweek.

00:18What I'd like to share is that for this year,

00:21we are not going to stop the domestic leagues for a month

00:25to play this kind of makeshift tournament.

00:28I think that was a disservice to the local leagues.

00:31People lost momentum.

00:33The players lost, you know, also momentum

00:35because the travel was brutal.

00:37I think these are positive changes.

00:39This might be what this marriage

00:43between MLS and Liga MX is that it's providing a lot

00:46because as we've been reporting,

00:48so many players have been going from MLS to Liga MX.

00:54We were talking off-camera, Chiba,

00:57how much Liga MX is farming out players from MLS,

01:04allowing the MLS teams to go buy on the cheap,

01:07develop players, and then they go

01:09because they have more budget.

01:10What do you think is the future

01:12for this development path for players from Europe

01:15that come to MLS, play in Liga MX?

01:18I think it's great.

01:19Look, man, everybody wins, right?

01:21MLS, for example, Mateusz Bogus that went to Cruz Azul,

01:25LAFC got him for $1 million.

01:27They sold him for 8.5.

01:28I think that's the number.

01:31LAFC's happy, Cruz Azul is happy.

01:33Liga MX teams are doing that

01:35because there's a lot of players from MLS

01:37now going to Liga MX, which is crazy.

01:40But at the same time, it's understandable

01:42because like you and I were talking off-camera,

01:44there's, sometimes Liga MX is gonna spend

01:48five, six, $7 million on a player from South America

01:52that they don't even know he's gonna be any good.

01:56Now what they're doing,

01:57they're scouting the players from the MLS.

01:58They're down to pay the money that they're asking for,

02:00but they're taking some amazing players.

02:02And there's a rumor for one more player

02:04to leave the champion and go to play for Tigres.

02:07Oh, yes.

02:08The rumor that now with Gniak

02:13getting this season-ending injury,

02:15now they're going after Djobelik,

02:18our good friend Nick C, countryman,

02:22the Serbian, critical for Galaxy on the championship,

02:26now might be a player from Tigres

02:29joining a handful of top players from MLS

02:34migrating for the big box.

02:36And Chiba, thank you so much.

02:38We're gonna go with Nick on the next segment,

02:40but thank you for being here with us.

02:42Are you excited about Latin Nation Football Club or what?

02:45Man, I'm so excited.

02:46I wanna be wearing a jersey

02:47from Latin Nation Football Club.

02:49And I'm also excited about MLS when we're almost there.

02:52A lot of football coming our way,

02:54and I'm so excited to be here,

02:55part of Latin Nation Football Club, baby.

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