CONCACAF

... that were the first and most vocal group that came out against him when he, um, launched his plan to sell 20% of the World Cup to private equity.

20% of all FIFA competitions, including the World Cup, I should say, right? Uh, UEFA, CONCACAF, and elsewhere.

They all came out against it, and did so vocally, and threatened to remove themselves from those competitions.

Uh, but it, the current belief, at least according to Reuters, is that Infantino still retains enough support from smaller nations to remain the president.

He, the, the, he doesn't want the job, so stop, stop asking me about this.

Hmm.

Uh, Victor Montagliani of Vancouver is the head of CONCACAF, has been tipped as a candidate as well.

But the Reuters piece notes that he wouldn't be interested in running unless he was convinced that he had the support, which, as the article points out, it sounds like Infantino's got his support lined up.

Y obviamente le dije, ¿qué esperar de Rafa Márquez? ¿Qué vamos a esperar de este Rafa Márquez? Y él comentaba y decía, a ver, Rafa Márquez es muy diferente a cualquier otra persona.

Rafa Márquez sí sabe la importancia que es tener una buena relación con la prensa, sabe la importancia de atender a la afición y sabe la importancia de ganar torneos, de seguir siendo el número uno en CONCACAF, de seguir haciendo buen trabajo.

Vienen muchos jóvenes.

Rafa Márquez...

no result very

commanding from a CONCACAF perspective Davey's starting off the season well putting in minutes that's what matters to me minutes he's starting games playing around like 70-80 minutes every game makes me happy he's doing good so far he's looking set I think he's going to have one of his better seasons in recent memory simply due to the health

Yeah, and for Bodo, kind of mentioned in our UCL preview, you know, they lost their striker, Hulk.

He went to Celtic in Scotland.

Don't be optimistic.

Don't.

Any CONCACAF narrative here?

Anything? Anything?

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Ballon d'Or, not a conversation that usually involves men from CONCACAF, but that ends this year, Hercules, as Julian Quinones gets included in the 30-man shortlist for this year's top honor in world football.

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And then he goes to a World Cup.

With a team like Mexico who nobody expected much out of, and he's their best player.

He scores four goals, which is one goal behind the CONCACAF record at World Cups of Landon Donovan.

Five.

And for the record,

the United States of America owns none, I believe, of the CONCACAF titles at the moment.

And Mexico

owns all of the CONCACAF titles at the moment, including the last two Gold Cups so that by the time 2027 comes around, it will have been six years since the United States.

I think that's a problem.

And maybe it would be time to do something about that.

Machiavellian figure that he is.

We've learned in the last 48 hours that he split the Caribbean region away from CONCACAF, putting a loyalist in charge in what is broadly seen as a view to sort of cement the votes in the Caribbean region.

ahead of his potential or the presidential FIFA election in early 2027.

Yeah, and that news broke, I think, within the last 48 hours.

So it really is building up and it's getting messier and messier because, you know, you have the confederations that broadly support Infantino are the African Confederation with 54 members, Colnable in South America with 10 members, OFC Oceania with 11 members.

And the ones that are opposing him and trying to get him out are UEFA, who are staying surprisingly strong and very vocal in their dislike and hate of him.

with their 55 members, the Asian Confederation with 46 members, and then obviously CONCACAF.

He's trying to split them.

played that one game, and then it came to the off-season of 2024, and I wasn't sure if I was going to get a re-sign or anything like that.

I got the call, I got re-signed, and then next thing I knew, Tristan wasn't coming back, and they were trying to find a goalkeeper, and we came into CONCACAF, and I ended up being the number one, and so from not playing for two years to go right into CONCACAF and playing against Chivas was an amazing way to start my run of games, and so...

Had my run of games until maybe halfway through the year, and then I ended up getting an ankle injury, and I had to sit out maybe a month or two, and then it was unfortunate, but I played maybe one game to finish the year, but it still hadn't recovered properly.

Had the off-season.

Came back for CONCACAF, and then before the season started in CPL, I found out I needed to get surgery on it, so last year was a rough year for me, and this maybe three, four months out injured and then came back and things weren't really feeling right.

But got through the season and really make too much of the impact.

And then this year at the end of 2025, I was out of contract.