What is CONCACAF, and what is its scandalous history?
Soccer 101
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4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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This week, we're taking a look at everyone's favorite (or fourth favorite) confederation: Concacaf. How many countries does it oversee? What exactly does it oversee? Why is Jack Warner's time as head of the confederation so notorious? And what does the future hold in terms of expansion and mergers?
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| 0:29.1 | It's Octor. It's OCTA. Welcome, everybody to soccer 101. My name is Taylor Rockwell, and on this week's episode, we're talking about everyone's favorite Confederation. No, not that one. Or that one, and maybe not that one either. Yes, it's that one. It's Concaf. The Confederation of North Central America and Caribbean Association football. It's a confusing one. Let's get our Concaf on, shall we, Graham Ruffin? Yeah, let's get concaffed out of mind on this episode, shall we? Or concaffeinated? I don't know. What do you prefer? Darrell once tried to do like conga calf, which was a portmanteau of conga line and concaf, and it was not well received, nor should have been. So I think you'd have to work hard to beat that pun. Yeah, clearly. We could be conga calf. But let's talk about concaf, shall we? The |
| 1:35.6 | Confederation that governs soccer in North America and the Caribbean. For now, we'll see if that |
| 1:41.7 | changes. Founded in 1961, or I should say merged in |
| 1:45.7 | 1961 to become its own thing. The Confederation has seen its fair share of growth and scandal |
| 1:51.1 | since that time, including ongoing extradition battles and a Trump Tower apartment just for cats. |
| 1:56.5 | However, the future of Kakagaf appears brighter than ever, particularly with an expanded |
| 2:01.1 | 48 team World Cup in 2026, an event that will be hosted in Kankakeaf territory, the U.S., Mexico, |
| 2:07.4 | and Canada. |
| 2:08.3 | As Kankakeaf continues to distance itself from its troubled past, its challenge remains balancing |
| 2:13.2 | the interests of its diverse membership from soccer powerhouses like Mexico and the United |
| 2:16.8 | States to smaller Caribbean and Central American nations with limited resources. Here with me to break it all down, Mr. Graham Rothenarty introduced to him. Graham, how excited are you, generally speaking, to talk about Concaf? I mean, very, very excited. It's the greatest confederation in the world, depending on who you ask. See, there it is. Depending on who you ask. I'm jumping to the end of this one, which I think we have in the running order, sort of like, how is it perceived? And I think one of my first real introductions to this was when an English friend of mine, before we started doing the show, I was talking to him about World Cup qualifying. |
| 2:51.3 | And he was, like, kind of good-naturedly listening. |
| 2:53.3 | And then after I finished my entire spiel about how excited I was for, like, the Hex to begin, said. But, like, it doesn't really matter, though, right? You're playing, like, Costa Rica and Panama. Like, England is playing, like, Greece and, I feel like Germany, this window. And Slovenia and Latvia this weekend as a Star World Cup qualified. |
| 2:50.6 | But that is a very good point. |
| 2:52.2 | But I think Germany, this window. Albania and Latvia this weekend as a Star World Cup qualified. |
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