In an exclusive discussion with ESPN Digital, Mikel Arriola considered that a unified competition would mean having one of the best leagues in the world.
MEXICO – The President Liga MX, Mikel Arriola, seconded the president’s words FIFA, Giani Infantino, that one assured that a merger between the Mexican MLS championship would result in the best tournament in the world, and stressed that this merger will bear fruit in a $ 1.5 billion deal.
“Yes, we are already talking about this on both sides, it is recognized that there is a possibility to resize the two leagues in volume, size, If you add the MX and MLS League, we’re talking $ 1.5 billion“We would be at other levels,” the president said Liga MX, Mikel Arriola, in an exclusive interview with ESPN Digital.
The merger project between the Mexican tournament and the United States is expected to be consolidated in 2026, just in the year in which Mexico and the country of the Stars and Stripes, as well as Canada, serve as organizers of the World Cup. The Union would catapult both tournaments over the Spanish and Italian leagues.
“It will be a process of permanent growth and 2026 should be a year in which they will mature or have measurable effects, of which the next five years have been used, let’s say 2026 will be a highlight,” he said. . said. Mikel Arriola.
In the US, there is an audience of 60 million people watching Liga MX and has seven times more purchasing power than Mexican fans, which would make it possible for local clubs to have characters like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the future.
“I did not say it, I said it Infantino, we would be at the level of the best leagues in the world. Dreaming that the next step is to have here or in US to MESS, Cristiano Ronaldo, maybe in a final phase of their career, imagine that Messi could come here, playing in Miami or from a club here to take him to the United States, that’s why I think Infantino was so correct in that statement, “he added.
Conformable Mikel Arriola: „Any of the 18 teams from Liga MX have followers in any city of USAnd making the project possible would contribute to “closing the economic gap created by the Pandemic”, in addition, this would extend to Women’s MX League However Expansion League MX.
“It is very encouraging that at the level of the president FIFA He attaches so much importance to the two leagues that there is a greater closeness between the two tournaments. Given the unique phenomenon of football in the world, it is good for the FIFA president to identify it, the fact that a local football is consumed in another country, the size of the United States. There are not a few countries, regions, where football consumption takes place in these orders of magnitude, in those growth rates and in those dimensions, it is encouraging that President Infantino has analyzed it ”.