LOS ANGELES – #ElGrito has turned the perfect love triangle into a perfect boundless hate triangle. Concacaf is willing to kill rather than die. And Mexico already knows it. And SUM too. Pray pro nobis.
Yon de Luisa, president of the FMF, accused Concacaf of negligence, and of boycotting the protocols and logistics to control #ElGrito against Trinidad and Tobago.
“In the two previous games the protocols implemented by the Mexican Soccer Federation worked, now that Concacaf was in charge, it was not like that,” said De Luisa.
#ElGrito returned raucous, irreducible, in the game against Trinidad & Tobago, last Saturday. And it places Mexico, again, in the pillory. He already has a pending penance: two sets of veto. Now, if the howl returns to Guatemala, it could lose the points at the promiscuous Concacaf table.
And if #ElGrito happens again against El Salvador, El Tri would be expelled from the Gold Cup, of course, if Concacaf adheres to its own regulations. But, it is already known, the Conkakafkian organism (Guillermo Chao dixit), can cut a little finger, but not the neck.
And it could be worse … or better, depending on how you look at it. Concacaf could veto the Mexican national team from playing friendly matches in the United States. This would subtract 10 million dollars per year from the FMF, and a larger amount from SUM, the financial midwife of El Tri.
Without a doubt, Concacaf would do Tri a favor. The FMF would be 10 million dollars less rich per year, but it would get rid of the moleros parties that schedule it. Also, you could explore in other countries. There are 250,000 Mexicans in Canada, and according to 2010 figures, 61,000 are settled in Spain, and 17,000 in Germany, according to the 2020 count.
It should not be so serious to separate from SUM. The United States Soccer Federation (USSoccer) will end its relationship with SUM in 2022, and from 2023 will independently handle all of its sports and broadcasting agreements. That relationship meant a payment of 30 million dollars.
Be careful: do not belittle SUM. In 2017, with all its assets and contracts, it was valued, according to Bloomberg, at two billion dollars, and is the Siamese brother of a prosperous MLS, which has priced its franchises up to 325 million dollars.
But, Concacaf does not care about the business between SUM and Mexico. She cares about being able to milk El Tri and her screaming fans in every tournament sponsored by her, including her involvement with the qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
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The forceful analysis of Paco Gabriel de Anda on the consequences that the controversial shout will bring to the Mexican team.
So when Yon de Luisa suggested playing Guatemala behind closed doors in this Gold Cup, Concacaf jumped to grunt and show their jaws, to assert that there will be fans this Thursday at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
Cloistered for this game, as the FMF wanted, would have meant losses of about $ 4 million. The Conkakafkian voracity has sharp teeth of gold. What does not rattle, even leaving only the bone, makes it creak.
Yon de Luisa has sent files to Concacaf, but mainly to FIFA, warning of a risk in the next two games of El Tri in the Gold Cup. What if those who shout are rival fans, trying to harm Mexico? How to detect it?
For that very reason, De Luisa wants Concacaf to stop meddling in anti-screaming protocols and logistics, and let the FMF and SUM proceed with the original plan. But the matron of the area does not want to give one iota.
The president, who presides but does not command, Víctor Montagliani, head of Concacaf, is a ferocious mastiff from Mexico. It is not personal. They are business. He saw with displeasure that the United States served a more generous slice to Mexico for the 2026 World Cup. Montagliani would see with great satisfaction, according to those close to Concacaf, that Mexico lost the venue of that World Cup, and that it was only organized between two countries.
“For us (Concacaf), the cry is not folklore, it is an insult,” has repeatedly said the Canadian, who has passionately defended sexual diversity even with vehemence and insults, at times, against Donald Trump.
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José Ramón Fernández considers that stricter measures should be taken to eradicate this cry that could affect the Mexican National Team more.
However, the FMF must understand that it has absolute control of #ElGrito. Although he refuses to accept it, Yon de Luisa knows that a Mexican team that plays with intensity, that plays well and that wins, that equation, is the absolute tape, the perfect muzzle, to silence #ElGrito.
However, on Saturday against T&T, all factors worked in favor of the uncomfortable scream. Chucky Lozano rolled over, with 40 stitches, according to De Luisa, and the team did not work on the court. The rude Trinidadians gave Mexico the space and the ball, and entrenched themselves in the background.
Mexico had a sterile 83 percent of possession. He fired 30 shots and only 7 on target. He took 15 corner kicks that only showed Tri’s offensive impotence. The question is if before, they worked in training, variants of the charges from the pennant. And if not, what do they do in practice to avoid planning how to capitalize on a corner?
If El Tri plays badly, plays ugly, is beaten and scared, and also bored and timid, it is inevitable that #ElGrito will appear. It’s frustration, unjustifiable, but that’s it, a disappointment, a fiasco, and the guy who pays a ticket for 90 minutes of joy, takes revenge in his own way.
I insist, then: #ElGrito is no longer an insult against the opposing goalkeeper, it is already a claim, a rebuke, a vituperation, directly against the Mexican team, and the disappointment it generates.
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John Sutcliffe with the latest that surrounds the Mexican National Team and the complicated moments he lives with the controversial issue.
#ElGrito has become a crude way of charging the Mexican team for the fallacy that it promises so much and delivers so little.
Do you want to eradicate it? I insist on what happened for months, there is only one way: to win, like and beat smaller rivals in the area.
And worst of all is that Mexican soccer the more it knows the new Concacaf, the more it misses Jack Warner. The Trinidadian would have already solved this in FIFA, yes, in the usual gangster style, but it would have been documented as a necessary evil.
However, for now, Mexico must understand and prepare: Concacaf is ready to kill rather than die.