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What a week.

They use moons instead of stars in reference to the locally beloved song “Luna de Xelajú” One of those clubs that might be off the international radar, but is fervently supported locally.

European club scouts watching Petar Musa put up a 27 in the shooting challenge and telling their sporting directors to lower the offer.

U-21 manager Hernán Elizondo set to serve as Tigres interim manager for this weekend's match at Quéretaro & the Leagues Cup, with U-19 coach Carlos Turrubiates assisting.

miss u

The soccer connection is Queretaro owner Marc Spiegel! (Not sure how involved he was with this push but he was big in starting their collective)

Here are your Concacaf Nations League matchups and dates.

Update: Paredes crushed it.

There are 41. Some are territories & some are not FIFA members (but some territories are FIFA members)

They've actually done a lot of the stuff they said they would back in the day when I did this story & even though the ranking isn't shooting up I think they're in a way better place. getconcacafed.substack.com/p/-the-worst...

🇦🇮 - The worst team in the world's plan to get rid of that labelAnguilla is 209th in the FIFA rankings but is investing in its grassroots to improve - and bringing in a Concacaf legend to help in the short-term.getconcacafed.substack.com

Say what you want, but they explained this thing, drew all the teams & got out of there in a tight 45 minutes. A successful draw.

With the new neutral site model, we'll see where Montserrat ends up putting their games. Also, we have French Guiana as the November host of League B, Group D...we'll see!

Yes, I know that with the quality of the image, it looks like perhaps all the Group A teams have the same flag. They don't!

Pedro Velasquez, "the new Carlos Fernandez" is here to conduct the draw.

Concacaf Nations League draw is LIVE here www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPrW...

Official Draw | 2026/27 Concacaf Nations LeagueYouTube video by Concacafwww.youtube.com

Nations League draw is tonight at 7p ET on the Concacaf YouTube page

🇦🇷 entries four days after the World Cup final: - Leandro Paredes has reportedly asked to START for Boca TONIGHT in Copa Sudamericana action despite a rib issue - Nicolas Otamendi had his first River Plate training today & likely is available for Saturday. Montiel also trained.

Right up my alley!

I also saw that in Newark yesterday! Meanwhile, I couldn't find the SI I had a piece in anywhere except DFW a few weeks ago.