Moggio reflects the gold cup that raises the bar

July 4 -On June 14, Los Angeles City in California is being surrounded by ICE agents, separate people and separate families, daily protests have seen areas in the city closed, and US President Donald Trump has summoned national guards and even US marines from Camp Pendleton to attack fear to the heart of the country that he said was outside of control.

Maybe not the biggest time or the best place to start your most important regional soccer competition, the 18th^Th CONCACAF Gold Cup Edition.

Surely no one is interested? Surely there are more important things to take care of? Who will appear?

Well, almost everyone and how extraordinary community statements and solidarity through simple soccer games occurred in Hollywood Park on Saturday night – all under the alert ice agent gaze and may be confused from the agents of ice camping in the back of the right orange parking lot named.

Since then in the gold cup has been excited, united, surprised, shocked, stunned and delivered only in the way the big soccer tournament.

Secretary General Concacaf Philippe Moggio (photo), when asked whether he expects this tournament to send to this sufficient level given the broader social situation, putting up the answer in the strength of football and its long -lasting abilities to be relevant.

“We expect them (fans to appear) for various reasons. The golden trophy is a very important opportunity for countries with the upcoming 2026 World Cup qualifiers.

“Fans follow the team and measure how they are, this is a great opportunity for them to connect,” he continued. The keyword here is connected. “We have seen the excitement and saw him building from round to round.”

Honduras and Guatemala are the best examples of it and the excitement and development of energy around their performance.

Honduras opened with 6-0 which was in the hands of Canada but then reversed their tournaments to reach the semifinals.

“Four years ago Guatemala was a federation that experienced difficult times, they were under the normalization committee but they had done a big job in building the foundation. In the league of nations they are now in Group A. The last time they were in the semifinals of the Gold Cup were in 1996.”

Every nation in this golden cup has a story to tell and ambition to be fulfilled. Supporting the opportunity has become a platform built by Concacaf.

“We are very happy with the overall performance on and off the field,” Moggio said.

On the field there is a little doubt that this has become the highest overall game standard that is seen in any Gold Cup. With only two matches of exceptions, each match has been tight with a team that pushes each other on the wire. That didn’t just happen from nowhere. For Moggio, this is the result of a process.

“We believe that this is one of the benefits of the four editions of the nation -nation league where the team played consistently for two cycles. They have the opportunity to compete and progress and excitement continues to build,” Moggio said.

Improvement of performance has been the same -exponential unit outside the field. The Gold Cup has the biggest broadcast distribution ever 114 countries with a ranking of regulation almost without exception in the domestic market.

In the US, Fox recorded 1.9 million viewers for the quarter-finals of the US-Costa Rica, the record of English TV viewers for non-final matches.

“We have doubled income opportunities to sponsors to unprecedented levels,” Moggio said, without giving the right number. “We now have 20 sponsor partners, six of them are only in this edition. We have seen a lot of activation and excitement around the Gold Cup activity.”

Some of these sponsor partners are long -term partners while others taste the gold cup for the first or second time. Moggio believes that the experience and desire of the gold cup will motivate them to leave again.

Development for Concacaf is not only about more fans and more commercial partners, but also in ensuring their golden cup products have infrastructure and platforms to provide the highest as possible on the field.

The key to that is a change such as going directly to the penalty shootout in the knock-out round to the final because of the “reasons for the welfare of the players. We know the calendar is heavy and it makes sense to protect the players a little … Our focus is to ensure we hold a safe event for fans and players and officials.”

It has involved sustainable investment in improving the competition environment for all teams from boarded hotels to increase in travel, and if possible reduce stress. Concacaf also has more than double the prize money throughout the tournament. The winning team on Sunday will bring home $ 4 million, in 2023 Mexico received $ 2 million to win the final.

Another key initiative is to improve the quality of the field at the stadium where the grass field must be placed. “We have achieved this through preparation with our stadium and helped them apply tighter maintenance standards,” Moggio said. Attention to the details that have been paid off, and of course it has become a tournament where the coach has not complained about the quality of the pitch at Stadia Concacaf has been used.

While Concacaf has sent its gold cup, at the same time FIFA has played the club’s world cup, most days scheduled the match in direct competition.

Moggio said that their focus was purely in carrying out the golden cup but they worked with FIFA to reduce overlapping in kick-off time between events.

For the Gold Cup, the Club World Cup has not yet proven the threat that many people are afraid of, maybe the threat has actually become the opposite, something that FIFA might need to consider if it continues to be a noisy home guest in this market.

Moggio brushed the US-ASPA-they was not a problem, and he was able to do it with the success of this edition. He did make the key points that “which country in the world can hope to withdraw two events of this big at the same time?”

So what’s next after the final Sunday?

“The work is ongoing,” Moggio said. “We have 2026 World Cup qualifiers to be completed; Women’s World Cup qualifications in the fall; Central American and Caribbean Cup to be sent; Women’s Champion Cup in Autumn; The fifth edition of the nation -nation league in the fall 2026; and the gold cup again in 2027. I have missed some of the two.”

Concacaf ball is rolling and gathering.

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