DJT Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 The very first match of the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014: CONCACAF Qualifying First Round First Leg Montserrat vs. Belize Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 6:00 PM EDT Ato Boldon Stadium - Couva, Trinidad & Tobago The Second Leg is on Sunday, June 19, so one of these teams will be eliminated before any other team in the world plays a match. (The next set of matches are in Asia on June 29.) FIFA has a nice article about this: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1451305/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamonty Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Hope springs eternal indeed! Yearly in hockey, the IIHF holds a series of world championships for teams below the elite countries, called tier 1, 2 & 3 (http://www.iihf.com/channels1011/wm-iii. Israel and South Africa were the class of the tier 3 tourney. Mongolia didn't show and Greece got pummelled (-72 in goal diffential in only 5 matches!). Wouldn't it be cool if there ever was a so-called World cup for FIFA ranked basement dwellers? Think Vanatu vs. Djibouti or San Marino vs. Mauritius. It'd make for some great foder for the Fifa.com website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJT Posted June 16, 2011 Author Share Posted June 16, 2011 First Leg final: Montserrat 2-5 Belize 24' BLZ Deon McCauley 44' MSR Jay Lee Hodgson 50' BLZ Harrison Roches 53' BLZ Elroy Kuylen 74' BLZ Deon McCauley 83' BLZ Deon McCauley 86' MSR Jay Lee Hodgson FIFA report, article/photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amacpher Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Wouldn't it be cool if there ever was a so-called World cup for FIFA ranked basement dwellers? Think Vanatu vs. Djibouti or San Marino vs. Mauritius. It'd make for some great foder for the Fifa.com website. There almost should be really. But I guess the minnows in soccer are typically much poorer countries than the minnows in hockey so there are better things to spend their money on. Maybe in a few decades... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian B. Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Second leg match postponed. Belize federation suspended by FIFA http://www.concacaf.com/page/WCQ/NewsDetail/0,,12813~2378342,00.html ZURICH, Switzerland - The second leg of the World Cup qualifier between Belize and Montserrat scheduled for Sunday in Belmopan has been postponed due to FIFA's suspension of the Belizean soccer federation because of continued interference from the government, FIFA said Friday. In a letter to Belize Football Federation President Bertie Chimilio, FIFA Deputy General Secretary Markus Kattner wrote that FIFA's Emergency Committee took the action after Belizean authorities informed the world body that it would not provide "security of the visiting team and officials at the match." Kattner wrote that, under those circumstances, "FIFA cannot take the responsibility of letting the match take place." The match must be rescheduled before July 10 providing the Belizean government ends its restrictions and FIFA has lifted the suspension. If not, Belize will be excluded from World Cup qualifying, Kattner wrote. Belize won the first leg on Wednesday in Couva, Trinidad, 5-2. The winner of the two-leg series will advance to the first group stage of CONCACAF qualifying, set for the fall of this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpoma Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 lol... a suspension already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatest Cockney Rip Off Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Qualifying for the AFC region started today. The Philippines tied Sri Lanka 1-1 in Columbo. Been reading up on the Filipino team recently (my wife's parents are from their) and in the past few years they've been searching the world for people with Filipino ancestry who are eligible to play for the nation team. There are even fan forums like this were they talk(dream) about getting JDG2 on team. Their goal today was scored by Nate Burkey who is a 26 year old american who previously had trials in Belgium and Bulgaria and now play for a club in the Philippines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 In CONCACAF. the Turks & Caicos lost 0-4 at Bahamas. Tomorrow the American Virgin Islands host the Virgin ISlands derby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolando Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Most of today's matches in Asia sound like more like military operations than football matches: Myanmar vs Mongolia Laos vs Cambodia Palestine vs Afghanistan Pakistan vs Bangladesh Taiwan vs Malaysia Philippines vs Sri Lanka Macau vs Vietnam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alberta white Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Thanks to Thrilla on the edmonton forum, the ESG is now firmly(ish) in the Philipeano Camp. Come on the RP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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