Canada, Mexico and the United States will play off against the seven Central American nations for five places in the CONCACAF men’s youth championships beginning with the 2011 tournament, a change approved Monday by the confederation’s Executive Committee.
The three North American entrants previously had qualified automatically for both the under-17 and under-20 championships, but now will be grouped with their UNCAF counterparts with a procedure yet to be determined. The Caribbean will continue to qualify sides teams for the eight-team biennial tournament.
The qualifying will be slightly different for the CONCACAF U-17 Championship in 2011. Since Mexico is hosting the U-17 World Cup that year, it will qualify automatically for the FIFA finals.
The board also voiced unanimous support for the United States’ bid to host the World Cup in either 2018 or 2022. Executive Committee member and U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati outlined the major aspects of the bid in a video and slide-show presentation to the panel.
CONCACAF President Jack Warner congratulated the United States on its bid.
“The United States can count on the full support of CONCACAF, including Chuck Blazer, Rafael Salgueiro and myself,” Warner said. The 24-member FIFA Executive Committee will decide the venues for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup in December 2010.
Based on the General Secretary’s report on CONMEBOL, the board confirmed the decision to end CONCACAF’s participation in the Copa Sudamericana, authorized him to negotiate a continued presence in the Copa Libertadores and deferred a decision on the Copa America until its next meeting.
With the Group Stage of the CONCACAF Champions League now complete and results analyzed, the Executive Committee approved a reallocation of berths, giving Panama one automatic place in next season’s Group Stage while making both of El Salvador’s qualifiers go through the Preliminary Round.
Neither Firpo this season nor Metapan in 2008 managed to advance past the Preliminary Round, and of the two teams that did earn a direct berth, Metapan won only one of five games this season while Firpo went 2-2-2 in 2008.
Panama, however, has had three of its four advance past the Preliminary Round into the Group Stage and this season had one, Arabe Unido, reach the quarterfinals. It will play Cruz Azul in the final eight in March.
The Executive Committee also applauded the unsuccessful attempt by Costa Rica to qualify for the World Cup in a two-leg playoff against Uruguay and voiced its support for federation President Eduardo Li. It praised Li’s leadership, noting the success of its youth program including the U-20 team’s fourth-place finish at the World Cup in Egypt. (Concacaf, Nov 23,2009)
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A goal by striker Karissa Rodney in the 84th minute against Jamaica ensured that the Trinidad and Tobago National U-20 Women’s team captured the top spot in the Caribbean Football Union’s Qualifying tournament last night.
The “ Soca Princesses dominated the 2009 competition and required only a draw to recapture the top spot in the group.
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Update - T&T Tops Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago's Under 20 girls gave another strong showing in a keenly contested battle with Jamaica which ended 1-1 in the closing match of the CFU leg of the World Cup qualifiers for 2010 at the Marvin Lee Stadium on Sunday. An 84th minute equalizer by Karissa Rodney made sure of the draw which saw T&T top the group on a better goal average ahead of Jamaica which ended on seven points as well. The game lived up to all the expectations of a Caribbean derby and was well supported by fans of both countries. Cuba dropped a handful on St Kitts/Nevis in the earlier to finish as the third place team and will join T&T and Jamaica in the Concacaf Final qualifying round in Guatemala next January. More to follow.
Trinidad and Tobago's National Under 20 Women footballers booked their place in the final Concacaf Qualifying round next year by way of a 2-1 victory over Cuba at the Marvin Lee Stadium on Friday night.
The win pushed T&T to six points at the top of the four-team table and assured them of one of the three spots up for grabs for the final round.
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Jack Warner was in an elated mood this week over the recent achievements of joe Public football club and is anticipating the “Eastern Lions” bringing home the FA Trophy and Toyota Cup.
With Public, winners of the 2009 TT Pro League and Big Six title, and back in the runnings for the Concacaf Champions League, Warner said : “The club has made tremendous improvement and achieved much more than a lot of people expected. And they did it with a balanced team including several young promising players guided by a young coach in Derek King. For that, I am extremely proud and they deserve every bit of credit,” Warner said.
Meantime, the club’s general manager Darryl Warner said the club had adopted a policy of investing more in the youths.
“This year I brought in young players and staff who had the passion. What also helped us this season, was that we didn't have the CONCACAF Champions' League to play. But its something we have to prepare for next season," young Warner explained.
“It was this time last year when I realised that I wanted to go back to more youths. I thought we had too many 'prima donnas' and stars...or should I say those who thought they were stars on the team," he added.
Joe Public, with players from its coaching school, also captured both the League and Knock-Out Trophies in the Eastern Football Association, winning U-11 League and Knock-out, U-13 League and Knock-out, U-15 League and Knock-out and also U-17 League and Knock-out titles.
Joe Public’s Pro League, Super League and Eastern FA teams all made it through to this year’s TTFF FA Trophy competition. (Nov 19,2009)
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