Soccer championship InterLiga returns to Frisco’s Pizza Hut Park in 2010

by PegNews wire

InterLiga at Pizza Hut Park in 2009

Schedule

Saturday, Jan. 2 – Robertson Stadium, Houston, TX

Sunday, Jan. 3 – Pizza Hut Park, Frisco, TX

Tuesday, Jan. 5 – Pizza Hut Park, Frisco, TX

Wednesday, Jan. 6 – Robertson Stadium, Houston, TX

Saturday, Jan. 9 – The Home Depot Center, Carson, CA

Sunday, Jan. 10 – The Home Depot Center, Carson, CA

Tuesday, Jan. 12 – FINALS: The Home Depot Center, Carson, CA

FRISCO — The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FMF), together with Soccer United Marketing (SUM), today announced the venues, dates, and qualification system for the 2010 edition of InterLiga.

Now in its seventh edition, InterLiga determines two berths for Mexican clubs to the prestigious Copa Libertadores. The tournament will be held between Jan. 2 and Jan. 12, 2010, starting in two Texas venues: Robertson Stadium in Houston (Saturday, Jan. 2 and Wednesday, Jan. 6) and Pizza Hut Park in Frisco (Sunday, Jan. 3 and Tuesday, Jan. 5). The event will then head to The Home Depot Center to Carson, Calif. (Saturday, Jan. 9 and Sunday, Jan. 10, followed by the finals on Tuesday, Jan. 12).

Pizza Hut Park, home to Major League Soccer’s FC Dallas, has hosted the MLS Cup in 2005 and 2006, including sold out InterLiga matches and Mexico vs. Ghana in March 2006. With 17 championship size soccer fields for the local community leagues, the soccer complex will host its fifth consecutive InterLiga.

Tickets for InterLiga 2010 go on sale November 16, 2009 in an exclusive week-long Visa presale offer at ticketmaster.com. Tickets go on sale for the general public on November 23 via Ticketmaster and other regular ticket outlets in each of the participating cities. Tickets are also available by contacting each of the local Major League Soccer teams in the three markets: FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, Chivas USA, and LA Galaxy.

InterLiga 2010 will determine two Mexican club berths (Mexico 2 and Mexico 3) for Copa Libertadores. Copa Libertadores begins at the end of January 2010. The eight best teams in the general standings at the end of the current Apertura 2009 season of the Mexican domestic league move on to InterLiga 2010, except for the club that finishes first in the regular season standings, which will qualify directly to Copa Libertadores as “Mexico 1,” per FMF regulations. Due to their participation in the 2009-2010 CONCACAF Champions League, clubs Toluca, Pachuca, Cruz Azul, and UNAM Pumas will not participate in InterLiga 2010 regardless of their place in the Apertura standings. Due to the events that occurred during Copa Libertadores 2009, Chivas and San Luis will qualify directly into the 2010 edition during the Round of 16.

The Mexican clubs qualified for InterLiga 2010 will be known following the end of the Apertura regular season, which comes to a close November 15 in its league final.

Source: FC Dallas

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now WHY DIDN'T THEY USE THE COTTON BOWL FOR THESE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES? How did the Pizza Hut Park come to being, in FRISCO? and not the COTTON BOWL? did the neighborhood complain about this too? Did Laura Miller refuse "something" to keep the Cotton Bowl out of all these games?was it a 'hood/safety issue? another major venue in the 'burbs... just wondering.....