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I find the common or garden variety European league football served up to us on any given day by local cable television to be immensely boring. I much prefer to watch a match from the Saudi Pro League or the South African Premiership than suffer through the predictability of Manchester City versus Leeds United or Paris Saint-Germain against Lens.
So a few weeks ago, I was intrigued by the possibilities of Deportivo Tachira (Venezuela) at home to The Strongest (Bolivia) in CONMEBOL's (South American Confederation, for the uninitiated) Copa Libertadores. I was not disappointed by these two clubs, which are unknown to the overwhelming majority of local football fans who constrain themselves to gorging on European fare.
I saw a very good crowd, a good level of play, foreign players from Argentina, Colombia, Panama, Uruguay, and Alvaro Recoba (the former Inter Milan and Uruguay star) as head coach on the Venezuelan bench. So, I asked myself the question I have always asked myself - why does Trinidad and Tobago not have players in a league that is literally next door, while we send players to nondescript clubs in Vietnam, India, Northern Cyprus, Oman, the United States and sundry other points?
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