Getting CONCACAFed

Getting CONCACAFed

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Getting CONCACAFed
Getting CONCACAFed
📅 What can Mexico, the U.S. and Canada learn in October?

📅 What can Mexico, the U.S. and Canada learn in October?

PLUS: Pauno stays for another act + the Conca-catch-up!

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📅 What can Mexico, the U.S. and Canada learn in October?
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The October international window is upon us, and Concacaf’s three power teams in North America are playing their final matches before contests in November that will determine whether or not they qualify directly to the 2024 Copa América or if they’ll have to take a more arduous route.

Managers and fans often ask for more demanding opponents than they feel they get, but the United States and Mexico are doing a two-step with a pair of power opponents this month with Germany and Ghana visiting for friendly matches.

Both teams bring plenty of talent, even if Germany is in a transitional moment, with these games providing good opportunities to see how far the teams have - or haven’t - come in nearly a year since the 2022 World Cup.

What do games like this allow you to see, though? For one…

Are the weaknesses still the weaknesses?

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