Superliga 2008

This year's edition of the "MLS v. FMF" tournament, otherwise known as "Superliga" is off and running. An interesting tournament in it's second year of existence has something that last year's version did not have. Teams that deserve to be there. Rather than the four teams from each league being chosen by the hierarchies of MLS and FMF, this years wonderfully glorious Superliga trophy is being fought for by teams that have earned the right to be there.

What's at stake? Well the intangible reward is what we as American Soccer fans want more than anything...Supremacy over everything Mexican. Mexican clubs or the Mexican National Team. Which I agree is a high reward. As a new age American fan, what we want more than anything is respect, by the rest of the "footballing" world, which we are increasingly becoming more deserving of.

The tangible reward is what needs to be debated. What Soccer United Marketing officials have told us is that the winner of the tournament receives a $1 million dollar prize. What we have recently found out though is that not all of that prize money is going to the MLS clubs. It's a topic that is repeatedly being brought up, the lack of respect and money that MLS players earn.

Superliga is something that we as American soccer fans can look forward to, we'll see if the on the field product is as good as last year's version, which we have no reason to believe will not happen.