WCQ: Third Round - Window 1 (September 2-8, 2021)

[CanadaFan123]

19 minutes ago, Dominic94 said:

All 3 young duals were called to the squad, 1 declined due to club, can’t say who. Not sure if the other 2 accepted… but theres the expectation that Jebbison will be there.

Who are the 3 young duals? Jebbison, Flores and Dias? 

[El Diego]

I think the USA squad is very good, their MLS guys like Matt Turner, Miles Robinson, and George Bello have really stepped up to the point where they likely are justifiably starters over European guys

[trc2014]

26 minutes ago, Dominic94 said:

All 3 young duals were called to the squad, 1 declined due to club, can’t say who. Not sure if the other 2 accepted… but theres the expectation that Jebbison will be there.

If this is true - egg on my face for the Jebbison post two hours ago haha

[theaub]

Side question: do we know if anyone has rights for the non-Canada matches?

[Free kick]

23 hours ago, theaub said:

Would be a quick turnaround (although IMO they should have had a contingency plan set up for this), but since the matches for this period are split into two groups of four why don't they just move the red list group to the US?

 

They could definitely do that.  As far as home field advantage, the latin american countries would not lose anything from playing in the US.  Jamaica might loose something. 

[Free kick]

20 hours ago, TOcanadafan said:

I see a scenario (and I’m really rooting for this) where all this chaos might help our qualification chances - if difficult away matches need to be moved to neutral locations.  But I also see a possibility where we may get screwed and have to play away matches in future windows without significant Euro based players.

 

 

It would leave a bitter feeling to actually finally qualify for the World Cup (after all these years) and having it be the result of being aided by the global pandemic.   But having said that, for the latin american countries, i am convinced that the wont be disadvantage if they played in the games in the US and were allowed to play in the US. 

[Sal333]

51 minutes ago, Ansem said:

 

I said "scarier" - I know they have more depth, very good at home and are favorites...

We're still "scarier"

Buchanan, Davies, David, Larin charging at them...

We're playing 3 games in 6 days. Chances are Herdman will play those four against Honduras and El Salvador and have them skip the US. Then again he might mix and match.

I agree with you our 1st team has nothing to be scared of with the US. Problem is we can't play our 1st team in all three games.

[Dominic94]

24 minutes ago, trc2014 said:

If this is true - egg on my face for the Jebbison post two hours ago haha

I didn’t speak to anyone who said he would be, but it seems like there’s more than a few who believe he’s in. I know it’s a contradictory statement, but there’s optimism.

[VinceA]

34 minutes ago, theaub said:

Side question: do we know if anyone has rights for the non-Canada matches?

Apparently OneSoccer was able to for all but the US one.

[Ansem]

15 minutes ago, VinceA said:

Apparently OneSoccer was able to for all but the US one.

ESPN facilitated that for them. They can get more but it seems TSN and RDS just don't want to deal with MediaPro

Edited August 26, 2021 by Ansem

[trc2014]

14 minutes ago, VinceA said:

Apparently OneSoccer was able to for all but the US one.

I have a feeling this will be confirmed window to window.

[narduch]

11 minutes ago, Ansem said:

ESPN facilitated that for them. They can get more but it seems TSN and RDS just don't want to deal with MediaPro

How does this make sense if the game is on FS1 in the US?

Edited August 26, 2021 by narduch

[narduch]

Jamaica wasn't added to the UK red list. Mexico is though

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/red-amber-and-green-list-rules-for-entering-england#red-list

 

[TOcanadafan]

1 hour ago, Obinna said:

Berhalter LOVES him some Sebastian Lletget 

Has the US media already declared this a B team, B+ maybe ?

[WestHamCanadianinOxford]

5 minutes ago, narduch said:

Jamaica wasn't added to the UK red list. Mexico is though

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/red-amber-and-green-list-rules-for-entering-england#red-list

 

Unchanged as far CONCACAF goes I think.

Except we, Canada are green, which is great for me personally. 

Edited August 26, 2021 by WestHamCanadianinOxford

[Obinna]

1 hour ago, king1010 said:

Also scarier at the back end with Henry red card waiting to happen  

Someone needs to put Henry on the red list.

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

8 minutes ago, narduch said:

Jamaica wasn't added to the UK red list. Mexico is though

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/red-amber-and-green-list-rules-for-entering-england#red-list

 

Canada is moving to green on the 30th. 

[dyslexic nam]

1 minute ago, Greatest Cockney Rip Off said:

Canada is moving to green on the 30th. 

The downside to that is that everyone else gets to bring their strongest squad here for our home games…

[Obinna]

9 minutes ago, narduch said:

Jamaica wasn't added to the UK red list. Mexico is though

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/red-amber-and-green-list-rules-for-entering-england#red-list

 

So in the end it will just be Jiminez missing, who's already been missing for the past 18 months or whatever?

In other words, nothing changes lol

[RS]

20 minutes ago, narduch said:

How does this make sense if the game is on FS1 in the US?

It doesn't. It's conjecture.

[Ansem]

22 minutes ago, narduch said:

How does this make sense if the game is on FS1 in the US?

WCQ home games are sold/controlled by the FA of the country from my understanding - The USSF sold the rights for the USMNT home game to ESPN which made it possible for TSN and RDS to grab the feed as they are part of the same organization. (someone can correct me if I get this wrong)

The CSA controls the WCQ home rights which goes to Onesoccer.

For the games in Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama and Honduras - MediaPro has to bid for the rights to show those away games here. I think they already got those deals but they lost to ESPN in the US.

Edited August 26, 2021 by Ansem

[WestHamCanadianinOxford]

2 minutes ago, Obinna said:

So in the end it will just be Jiminez missing, who's already been missing for the past 18 months or whatever?

In other words, nothing changes lol

It means that if teams play in Mexico or Costa Rica, (or Panama) like Jamaica do this window, they will have to quarantine coming back.

And if nothing changes, any of our UK players would for those games in other windows. 

Edited August 26, 2021 by WestHamCanadianinOxford

[Ruffian]

16 minutes ago, TOcanadafan said:

Has the US media already declared this a B team, B+ maybe ?

Half the team is from what the US media declared the C- team that they brought to Gold Cup.

[narduch]

9 minutes ago, Ansem said:

WCQ home games are sold/controlled by the FA of the country from my understanding - The USSF sold the rights for the USMNT home game to ESPN which made it possible for TSN and RDS to grab the feed as they are part of the same organization. (someone can correct me if I get this wrong)

The CSA controls the WCQ home rights which goes to Onesoccer.

For the games in Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama and Honduras - MediaPro has to bid for the rights to show those away games here. I think they already got those deals but they lost to ESPN in the US.

ESPN does not have the rights to US home games. Fox does 

[El Diego]

So Herdman is on a call at 3:15 ET, right? Was hoping the squad would drop before then, but that's the latest it can be revealed

EDIT: Just saw a tweet from Canada Soccer that the squad will be "Available in <20"