People who follow international club soccer have gotten used to a pecking order in North and Central America, as well as the Caribbean. It's a hierarchy, one most teams in the Concacaf region are trying to overthrow. The best from Mexico's league, Liga MX, continue to dominate the region's marquee tournament, the Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League (SCCL), having won all 12 editions of the competition since its rebranding in 2008. Major League Soccer, meanwhile, continues to pine for a breakthrough.
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That's still a dominant theme at the dawn of another Champions League, with the draw for the tournament's 2021 edition scheduled for Wednesday at 4 PM Pacific.