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[QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 3910417, member: 237"]
To be fair 'international" is a stretch when these are Concacaf tournaments. The Gold Cup includes territories that don't even ever have a shot at the WC because they are just that, a territory not a nation. Outside of more time on the pitch you don't get much value playing your first team in every tournament where you have a shot to play Mexico along with the underwhelming Central American sides. Give me more tourneys with South American sides regularly and then that is a different story and a better ongoing litmus test for the first team.

The other piece here is that the qualifiers are far different than the cups. The cups are played usually in the U.S. and or Mexico on quality fields. Qualifiers in other countries are at times as hostile as it gets playing on awful fields sometimes. Guatemala is a pushover in Kansas City but not so much on their rocky and wet field during WCQ.

There needs to be more international tournaments we can play in between the WC and qualifiers that is truly international not just our immediate northern and southern neighbors and Caribbean nations.
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