MIAMI - Sources within the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) indicate that the league awarded a point to Los Angeles Football Club after their 2-0 loss to Club León for the achievement of not losing that much despite being in pre-season.

“We thought it was only fair to award LAFC a point for valiantly showing up with their under-trained and scrappy players,” stated one CONCACAF representative. “We know that it’s difficult to play these in form teams from Mexico and we know that LAFC didn’t start playing friendlies until January 25th and we know that they’ve only played four games before they played against León so we decided to equalize things by giving them a sympathy point… you know… for their effort.”

According to the rules of the tournament, LAFC can now advance in multiple ways. CONCACAF stipulated that the team can get an additional point for winning in the stands at home as well as playing valiantly and losing, again.

“If LAFC lose at home but they look like they really tried we can award them another point, and if the fans are able to really win in the stands then we can award an additional point. There’s a lot of ways for the team to earn points other than winning. The game isn’t really about winning anyway. It’s entirely possible that LAFC could advance in the tournament without winning either of their games if they are able to capitalize on all the bonus points available via fan petition,” stated CONCACAF secretary Dwight Evans.

The Nutmeg News will have more on this as fans petition to have the moral victory winner of the LAFC v León game in Los Angeles as the CONCACAF Champion for 2020.