Now that we're in the Round of 16 in the 2023 Leagues Cup, it feels like two competitions have emerged. There's Leagues Cup featuring a mixture of Liga MX and MLS teams. And then there's "Messi Cup," i.e. any game featuring Lionel Messi starring for Inter Miami. One is producing incredible drama and amazing goals scored […]

The Leagues Cup has brought a sense of fresh air to Major League Soccer and its 'rivalry' against Liga MX in an unprecedented format. The Mexican league often took the top spot in both quality of play and popularity in the United States. However, strictly for on-the-field product, viewers seldom got the chance to see […]

The two biggest soccer stories this summer battle against each other (and our time and attention) on the latest episode of the world's longest running soccer podcast, World Soccer Talk. Indeed, It's a battle royale between Messi and Women's World Cup. Which one is winning? Messi games with Inter Miami have become a must-watch on […]

From 2023 onwards, the expanded Leagues Cup competition is now a major part of the MLS calendar. Featuring every MLS and Liga MX team, the summer tournament has evolved beyond simple friendlies, and is now an official CONCACAF-sanctioned competition. But can you watch Leagues Cup with MLS Season Pass? The simple answer is yes. Yes, […]

Major League Soccer and Liga MX have made a big deal about the new and improved Leagues Cup in 2023. The expanded event is no longer a glorified series of friendlies. Instead, it now features every MLS and Liga MX club, and has spots in the following year's CONCACAF Champions Cup up for grabs. But […]

The Leagues Cup begins its rebirth in just a few days. Previously, the event was an invitation-based, friendly competition. But it is now an official part of the CONCACAF club ecosystem, with spots in the recently-rechristened Champions Cup on the line. However, in it's expanded and much-lauded grand reopening campaign, Leagues Cup is going up […]

Univision has announced a multi-year deal to broadcast CF Monterrey home games. The agreement will allow TUDN, Univision's sports division, to air men's and women's Monterrey matches for the next five years. TUDN's first chance to broadcast these fixtures will be on Sunday, July 9th as Monterrey hosts Atlas at 9PM (ET). These Monterrey matches […]

This episode of the World Soccer Talk Podcast, titled MLS Success Overly Dependent on Messi, is presented by Sling. What does it say about MLS that Leagues Cup was unable to get a TV deal in Mexico? We discuss the breaking news from Mexico where the TV networks have thumbed their noses at the US-based Leagues […]

Liga MX has flip-flopped and has now decided that Leagues Cup will be available on MLS Season Pass to residents in Mexico after all. When Apple announced the deal in November 2022, Mexico was excluded from watching Leagues Cup through MLS Season Pass. So why the sudden change less than one month before the Leagues […]

Former United States men's national team head coach Gregg Berhalter has become a shock candidate to become the new manager of Club América. The Liga MX side is currently without a head coach after Fernando Ortiz departed in May. The Argentine signed with rivals Monterrey eight days after leaving the club. Berhalter has been without […]

This episode of the World Soccer Talk Podcast, entitled Final games in EPL, Bundesliga, Championship and Liga MX, is presented by Sling. It doesn't get any better than this. We preview this weekend's end of the season in the Premier League, Bundesliga, Liga MX and English Championship as a host of games with enormous implications […]

After a pair of dramatic semifinal second legs at the weekend, Tigres and Chivas de Guadalajara meet in the Liga MX final. Both clubs used second-half goals to reach the final of the Clausura phase of Liga MX. The final, a two-legged tie of its own, is on May 25 and 28. These are two […]

A Liga MX referee picked up a 12-match ban for kneeing a player in the the groin. The incident occurred in the second half of a heated matchup between Club America and Leon on Saturday. Match referee Fernando Hernandez handed out six yellow cards in the game and even sent off both managers. Leon players […]

Tucked away in the last paragraph of the press release about Copa America returning to the United States was arguably the biggest news of the day. Conmebol and Concacaf have decided to create a brand-new final four tournament between the best teams from Copa Libertadores versus Concacaf Champions League. The club angle of the Conmebol-Concacaf […]

Univision will broadcast Leagues Cup games beginning in 2023. It will not, however, do the same for Major League Soccer. Univision will have linear rights to the package of Leagues Cup games, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer's Jonathan Tannenwald. Featuring Liga MX against Major League Soccer teams battling each other, the Leagues Cup Final appears […]