Brazil's Inter de Porto Alegre and Mexico's Chivas de Guadalajara face off in this year's finals in Copa Libertadores. The mexicans will try for the second time to break Conmebol teams' natural reign over the cup: Cruz Azul lost it to Bianchi's Boca, even after winning in La bombonera. It's that hard to win a Copa Libertadores.
Will this be their year? The natural trend's ending by the hands of Chivas?
An interesting perspective comes from the fact that while Inter honors the team's name and mixes international players such as D'Alessandro and Guiñazú with local talent, Guadalajara's squad is purely mexican. A very international brazilian squad will face its counterpart in football and roster philosophy in Chivas Rayadas, alongside America, the most popular team in México.
If Chivas don't complain about the fact that even winning the cup they won't get a ticket to Fifa's Club World Championship, it may be because they are aware that to earn that right precedents have to be established. Either that or they just don't care and abide the rules that were laid out before joining the tournament. Concacaf has a place in that Club World Championship so in the end there is not much ground to talk about injustice.
The game will take place in Chivas' brand new stadium on wednesday night. Sold out already? Of course, very quickly.
Be sure to catch it, we will, and on this week's show we will address it properly, The South American Football Show Style.
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