‘CFU (CARIBBEAN NATIONS)’ Archives
2011 GOLD CUP DETAILS ANNOUNCED
2011 GOLD CUP DETAILS ANNOUNCED TEAMS, VENUES, GROUPS, DATES, TIMES CONCACAF have announced the details of the 2011 Gold Cup. The 12-team tournament will begin on June 5 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas and wrap up June 25 at the venerable Rose Bowl in Pasadena CA. Five-time champions Mexico will lead Group A, with four-time champions [...]
MONEY DICTATES GOLD CUP ‘DRAW’
MONEY DICTATES GOLD CUP 'DRAW' CONCACAF have announced the details of the 2011 Gold Cup. The 12-team tournament will begin on June 5 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas and wrap up June 25 at the venerable Rose Bowl in Pasadena CA. The ‘announcement’ of the groups was a polite way of saying that the groups were ‘arranged’ by CONCACAF [...]
GOLD CUP 2011 BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE
GOLD CUP 2011 BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE The 2011 Gold Cup has started to take shape with seven of the twelve teams qualified as well as the announcement of the dates and the thirteen venues. The tournament will open on June 5 in Dallas Texas at the new Cowboys Stadium and wrap up on June 25th at the venerable Rose Bowl in Pasadena [...]
RETHINKING THE GOLD CUP
RETHINKING THE GOLD CUP: It is time to re-evaluate the worth of a championship every two years. The Digicel Caribbean Cup begins this week. The tournament, in addition to crowning a regional champion within CONCACAF, also plays the role of qualifying five nations for the 2011 Gold Cup. Wait, didn’t we just have a Gold Cup? As a matter of fact [...]
NEW CONCACAF WORLD CUP QUALIFYING PLAN APPROVED
NEW CONCACAF WORLD CUP QUALIFYING PLAN APPROVED CONCACAF’s proposed new format for World Cup Qualifying has been approved by FIFA, according to reports from Univision. The new format, would replace the Hexagonal stage with two groups of four teams. The winners of the groups will qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The second place teams [...]
WAS THE CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW REALLY A DRAW?
WAS THE CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW REALLY A DRAW? CONCACAF released the pairings and brackets for the 2010-11 Champions League Knockout Rounds this week, and the first word that came to my mind was ‘Draw?’ The four Mexican sides have been paired together and are stacked on one side of the bracket. True there will be a Mexican club in [...]
UNITED STATES, MEXICO AND CANADA IN ANNUAL TRI-NATIONS TOURNAMENT?
UNITED STATES, MEXICO AND CANADA IN ANNUAL TRI-NATIONS TOURNAMENT? With the changes to the CONCACAF Qualification for the World Cup, much of the talk has been around the death of the Hexagonal and the likelihood of there being no meeting between the United States and Mexico in the qualifying stages. It is heartbreaking, and though the new [...]
MLS TEAMS HIT BY INTERNATIONAL DUTY
MLS TEAMS HIT BY INTERNATIONAL DUTY A total of 27 MLS players have been called into their national team camps for matches set to take place over this, the first big International Break since the World Cup. MLS will seriously have to consider taking a hiatus on these international breaks in the future as more and more players are getting called [...]
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: PRELIMINARY ROUND HOSTS, DATES AND TV TIMES ANNOUNCED
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: PRELIMINARY ROUND HOSTS, DATES AND TV TIMES ANNOUNCED Five Major League Soccer teams, four Mexican teams and one USSF Division 2 team make up 10 of the 24 sides involved in the 2010-11 edition of the tournament. Major League Soccer & USSF Division 2 Teams 2009 Major League Soccer Champions Real Salt Lake and 2009 [...]
