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If you have been wondering whether or not you should pay attention to the US Open Cup, you now have another reason. The US Open Cup, which by the way is only the oldest association football competition in America and one of the oldest in the world having been established way back in 1914, has always been kind of a little publicized tournament in American soccer. Hopefully with a Champions League spot on the line US Soccer will see that what is essentially America's FA Cup, gets the kind of coverage in the Round of 16 that it deserves.
Full report here.
I hope teams will start taking the OPEN CUP seriously. This means a USL division team could make the champions league. This should make things interesting. I like it.
This means that even a USASA team "could" make the champions league and ultimately go to the club world cup. Imagine if, free from a salary cap, some billionaire owner assembled a USASA team with former pros. . . It would be like the Beerfest of soccer - beware of Das Boot!
Anyway, this us just fantastic, finally making the US Open Cup one of the best tourneys in the world.
Look at the qualification for this years tournament. This setup is kind of bogus. FC Dallas the runner up in the US Open Cup should have qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League Spot. If a USL team lost the final of the US Open Cup to an MLS team that had already qualified to the CONCACAF Champions League another MLS team would get picked for the tournament. If you are going to incorporate the US Open Cup in qualification don't do it half ass.
Finally!!!
4 championships too late for the Fire. A Cuah led Fire should have been in the Concacaf championship last year
Oh, so it is a dedicated US Open Cup spot! Sweet!
The usopencup.com article made it sound like the since the NER had also been the MLS Cup runners up, it just so happened that the US Open Cup winner would be in the competition, not that is was a dedicated spot.
I agree that FC Dallas got screwed on this one.
This is the second time in CONCACAF Champions Cup/ Champions League history that the US Open Cup winner will receive a birth.