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How to improve Liga MX: The 10/8 Rule

We all love Liga MX but there are several ways the league can improve. In this series, we go over a few as the new season kicks off this weekend.

After many years of asking for reforms in the naturalized/foreign player debate, the FMF and team owners finally decided to tackle the subject. This resulted in the new 10/8 rule, which stated that Mexican teams would have at most 10 foreign players and at least 8 Mexican players in their game-day roster. The law also states that for a player to be Mexican he has to be either born in Mexico or be registered as a Mexican player before turning 19.