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Qualifying for the confederation’s top club competition would be a considerable accomplishment for the Galaxy, who are last in the MLS table nine months after winning their sixth league title.

“You have all these club competitions on a confederation, continental level, right?” he said.

A significant portion of that prize money will go to teams just for showing up, with the amount differing by confederation.

So twice in the past decade the confederation brought South America’s championship tournament to North America just to make things interesting.

Ahead of Thursday's vote, Jesper Ettrup Rasmussen, the chairman of a Danish trade union confederation, said the proposal to increase the retirement age was "completely unfair".