‘UNCAF 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 [...]
SOCCER ON CANADIAN TV THIS WEEK
SOCCER ON CANADIAN TV THIS WEEK ALL TIMES EASTERN Monday, November 15 1:00am – Brasileirao – Fluminense v Goias – GolTV (Delay from 11-14) 1:45am – Russian Premier League – Zenit Saint Petersburg v Rostov – Setanta (Delay from 11-14) 11:00am – Bundesliga – Bayern Munich v Nurnberg – GolTV (Delay from [...]
SOCCER ON US TV THIS WEEK
SOCCER ON US TV THIS WEEK A light week on the box for football fans. The mid-week international break supplies us with some mouth watering ties. A young US team is back in South Africa for the third time in two years to battle for the Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup with a roster that includes 5 potential new caps. For a Viewers Guide to the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SOCCER ON TV – US AND CANADA
SOCCER ON TV IN THE US AND CANADA Euro 2012 Qualifying dominates the landscape this mid-week, with a pile of fixtures being shown exclusively on ESPN3.com. There are two MLS matches during the week though and both are significant. In terms of staying alive in the MLS Cup Playoff hunt, Wednesday's Chicago v Toronto tilt on Wednesday (8:30 [...]
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 [...]
