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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • This year in the CBLoL was very predictable, everyone knew that LOUD and paiN Gaming would make it to the finals and that LOUD would win easily… So it was boring.

    For 2024, besides LOUD and paiN Gaming, KaBuM and Red Canids also have strong teams that can win the competition. So everyone’s hyped.

    Vivo Keyd and FURIA will depend on the development of the young players by their coaching staff, but these players have potential.




  • In the past, we had two LLA leagues (LAN and LAS).

    For me, Riot should once again split LLA in two and bring the LLA South part into the Brazilian ecosystem and LLA North in the NA ecosystem.

    Today we have good Argentinian organizations (KRU, Leviatan and Isurus) that could easily compete in the CBLoL. Leviatan, for example, has a tradition of signing Brazilian players even in LoL. So bring Flamengo (or another South American organization) back, put KRU, Leviatan and Isurus in the CBLoL and let’s fuckin’ go.

    The problem is that the LLA is basically made up of Argentinian + Korean players, so I don’t know what the “LLA North” organizations would look like without the Argentinian players. On the other hand, the “CBLoL” with Argentinian players would have a bigger player pool.

    For me, this is a better solution than simply merging NA, CBLoL and LLA.


  • clubs doing shady deals with agents

    This happens in Brazil too.

    not to mention academy players are treated like shit here, kids debuting professionally when they’re 21/22 y.o. how the fuck are we supposed to compete when we don’t give them time to get experience from early on?

    Here in Brazil, if you’re a young player at the big clubs and you haven’t made your professional debut until you’re 21/22 years old, the chances of you succeeding are extremely low.

    Players with the biggest potential (especially attacking players) will debut before they are 18. Defensive players start a little later.

    Talking about Atlético Mineiro, for example… The club’s board is under a lot of pressure to give more space to youngsters. It’s part of the country’s football culture.

    Católica, who used to have a lot of promising academy players making it to the national team and Europe, is wasting so many players to make way for old, washed dudes.

    I checked out Catolica’s squad on Transfermarkt and saw Franco Di Santo there… Holy fuck, one of the worst strikers I’ve seen playing for Atlético Mineiro.

    I’m 100% sure there’s a young Chilean better than him.


  • I’m not Chilean, (i’m Brazilian) but the decline in the quality of Chilean football over the last decade is terrifying. Even in the Libertadores, it’s very noticeable.

    In the past, playing against Colo Colo, Universidad Catolica and Universidad de Chile was hell. I remember Atlético Mineiro losing to Colo Colo in 2015 in the Libertadores. Today? Well…

    Today the Chilean league is certainly behind Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and even Paraguay. (I haven’t mentioned Uruguay because it’s unfair. It’s a country with 3.5 million habitants, and the fact that they’re a football powerhouse is fascinating)… And we’re talking about the league of one of South America’s most developed countries.

    And we look at the new generation of Chilean football, and there’s not much prospect of improvement in the short term. If we compare it with Ecuador, for example, they’re producing youngster after youngster with good potential.

    In the case of Ecuadorian football, all it took was for one team to focus on developing youngsters (Del Valle), and that boosted the whole ecosystem in the country. I remember starting to hear about Del Valle in 2014/2015 as a project to develop young talent… Today, if you look at their infrastructure, it’s better than even some big Brazilian clubs that have budgets, I don’t know, 10x bigger.