The Aztexan

This is a big week for the USL First Division.

First, there are two CONCACAF Champions League games tonight, featuring the two U.S. club teams who are doing best in the tournament so far. Not the MLS teams D.C. United or Houston Dyanamo, but USL-1 sides Montreal Impact and Puerto Rico Islanders. (Okay, so the teams aren't actually U.S. teams, but they both play in a U.S.-based league.)

Tonight in Trinidad, the Montreal Impact will to play Joe Public, and in Corona Stadium in Mexico, the Puerto Rico Islanders play Santos Laguna.

Then, in just 4 days, the Islanders turn around and play in the USL-1 Championship. They play the other Canadian USL-1 team (is there a pattern here?), the Vancouver Whitecaps.

Just think, next year we'll be watching the new Aztex team dominate both of these competitions.

In other USL-1 news, the Carolina Railhawks have gone through some big changes this week: President, General Manager & part owner Chris Economides is gone, as is head coach Scott Schweitzer. They also have some new ownership investment coming in, in the person of Bob Young. Young was formerly CEO of Red Hat Linux, and more recently the founder of the Internet self-publishing site Lulu.com.

Labels: CONCACAF, USL-1