Football can sometimes boil down to two types of in-World Cup year and the years in between. Unfortunately, 2012 not is the former. However, there is a lot in the next 12 months to keep fans interested, even if ball World Cup is still several months 30 again.
The Galaxy won all there is to win in 2011-MLS supporters shield Trophy, and the CONCACAF Champions League group. The challenge this year will do something no MLS team has done: to qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup. To do this, the Galaxy had to pass through Toronto FC in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, where teams will be dealt twice in March. The win in the series on aggregate goals will mean a place in the semifinals. Conquering the Champions League would be much more difficult than to repeat the success of the League, but which will also be challenging to do.
For Chivas, success would mean a playoff berth. After a disastrous season 2010, Chivas making wholesale changes but not much better, winning eight games and scored 34 fourth from bottom in the points. Juan Pablo Angel moved to help give the Chivas team’s most prolific Scorer in their history they have been, but solid defenses will go a long way towards helping the Club to break the skid playoff-less two years.
Since taking over the United States in August, Jurgen Klinsmann’s gone with the vibrant and questionable decision but had graduated because the list to the team schedule. All that changed in June when the United States began World Cup qualifying. United States drawn into a group with Jamaica and Guatemala Antigua and Barbuda. Trip to Guatemala City and Kingston will be complicated, but if the United States did not win the group, Klinsmann could face some pressure-or at least real, real as it gets in the United States
King CONCACAF again, not much is expected to stand at Mexico’s roads this year. El Tri started its own road to Brazil 2014 a group with Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guyana. While the game in San Jose and San Salvador may provide some cause for alarm for the peoples of the region, the Gold Cup champion could come away with nine points from this group.