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2019 Gold Cup Final will take place in Chicago

By Khaled Abdallah

PHILADELPHIA, PA - JULY 26: Giovani Dos Santos #10 of Mexico runs with the Gold Cup as Mexico celebrates after defeating Jamaica in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final at Lincoln Financial Field on July 26, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mexico won, 3-1. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
PHILADELPHIA, PA - JULY 26: Giovani Dos Santos #10 of Mexico runs with the Gold Cup as Mexico celebrates after defeating Jamaica in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final at Lincoln Financial Field on July 26, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mexico won, 3-1. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) /
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CONCACAF announced this week that the 2019 Gold Cup Final will take place in Chicago’s famous Soldier Field

After much speculation that the crowning event of CONCACAF soccer would take place in Los Angeles’s Memorial Coliseum or Houston’s NRG Stadium, the governing body announced that it will take place at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois.

This will make the third time that the Gold Cup Final has been held in the famous stadium with United States fans hoping for repeats of both the 2007 and 2013 versions. El Tri fans will be a little more wary given they lost the 2007 match to the US 2-1 but should they make it to the final they will find no shortage of loyal supporters.

According to Wikipedia, Chicago has the fourth-largest Mexican population in the United States after Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Houston so there will be plenty of folks wearing the red, white, and green if they advance that far.

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Not to mention the millions of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans who would gladly make the trip to see El Tri lift some silverware on American soil.

The Gold Cup has been good to Mexico especially in recent history. El Tri have won three of the last five instances of the competition and will look to rebound from a disappointing loss to Jamaica in the 2017 semifinals.

El Tri as a whole has not been in good form since a World Cup that started brightly but ended in bitter disappointment which appears to have carried on to some high profile friendlies.

However much of this poor form can be explained by the lack of a head coach and the blooding in of some young talent and a new generation of stars for Mexico. Many of the stars in the 2018 World Cup are in their early 30’s so it is time for the youngsters coming up through the ranks to make their mark ahead of the next World Cup cycle and beyond..

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The hope is that by the time the real tests begin in 2019 that El Tri will have an established manager and perhaps more importantly, an established best XI.

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