Road to Colombia - 2024 u20 World Cup

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

The U20 World Cup qualifying process is starting VERY early this cycle.

With the revamped format, the U.S. and Mexico (the top two Nations during the previous tournament) get a direct invite to the CONCACAF qualifiers which will be held in the D.R. again.

As the 3rd place team last time around we are forced to fight it out with the minnows.

The draw was early today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKIVZ15D4Es

We will face El Salvador, Cuba , Saint Vincent & the G's, Martinique and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

That's 5 matches our team will need to play between Friday, April 14th and Sunday, April 23rd.

https://www.concacaf.com/under-20s-women/article/dominican-republic-named-host-for-2023-concacaf-women-s-u-20-championship/

https://onesoccer.ca/a/can-w20-s-path-to-2024-u20-world-cup-drawn-out-ahead-of-qualifiers

Who is hosting this?

Are we hosting? Is this why a bunch of CanPL stadiums weren't free to host Canadian Championship matches during those dates?

Edited February 16, 2023 by Olympique_de_Marseille

[red card]

FIFA hasn't announced the host yet but Concacaf made its draw for the Qualifying Stage today.

This tournament will be the first to use Concacaf's new youth qualification process. Teams ranked 3-41 will play a round robin group stage with the 6 winners joining teams ranked 1-2 (US & Mexico) in the Group Stage of 2 groups. After round robin play, the top two teams of each group will advance to the semifinals. 3 teams qualify for the u20 World Cup.

34 nations have entered the u20 qualifying process. Canada is ranked third, so they will enter at the Qualifying Stage.

Canada was drawn in Group A with El Salvador, Cuba, Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Martinique and the US Virgin Islands, whom they’ll take on from April 14-23. Location & schedule to be specified in the coming days. If they advance, the Group Stage or Concacaf Wu20 Championship is set for May 24-June 3 in the Dominican Republic. 

So, it's good that Canada will get lots of matches. But it also means having to spend money for 2 tourneys vs 1. They have had camps in previous cycles, so the Qualifying Stage may replace camps. 

 

[narduch]

We basically have 2 threads for this now.

[SthMelbRed]

Why are the USA and Mexico not drawn?

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

Edit: Deleted

Edited March 19, 2023 by Olympique_de_Marseille

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

49 minutes ago, SthMelbRed said:

Why are the USA and Mexico not drawn?

Top two seeds go straight to the CONCACAF tournament. We were 3rd in the previous edition.

[SthMelbRed]

9 minutes ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

Top two seeds go straight to the CONCACAF tournament. We were 3rd in the previous edition.

Have we received a similar bye in past editions when we'd previously finished in the top 2?

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

5 minutes ago, SthMelbRed said:

Have we received a similar bye in past editions when we'd previously finished in the top 2?

It used to be that Canada, USA and Mexico qualified automatically.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_CONCACAF_Women's_U-20_Championship

Then, the format changed for 2020 and 2022 and basically everyone was invited in a giant tournament.

[jordan]

13 hours ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

@jordan or @JamboAl , 

Can we merge with 

Thank you.

I think I’ll need to try that on a laptop if it’s not already been done. I’ll try and take a look at lunch.

[Kent]

What's the deal with teams like French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique in this tournament? Are they suddenly eligible for the World Cup? Or are they just playing the tournament and someone else would take their place if one of them qualifies?

[narduch]

2 minutes ago, Kent said:

What's the deal with teams like French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique in this tournament? Are they suddenly eligible for the World Cup? Or are they just playing the tournament and someone else would take their place if one of them qualifies?

I was wondering the same thing. Did they get full FIFA status?

Or do they just not expect them to win so they don't care?

Guadeloupe is in the current men's U17 too.

Edited February 19, 2023 by narduch

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

Just a reminder that this tournament starts a month from now.

The preliminary qualifying tournament will be hosted on neutral ground, also in the Dominican Republic.

https://www.concacaf.com/under-20s-women/article/2023-concacaf-women-s-u-20-qualifiers-schedule-confirmed/

The exact schedule can be found here:

https://www.concacaf.com/en/under-20s-women/schedule-results/

Friday, April 14th vs Martinique

Sunday, April 16th vs St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Thursday, April 20th vs Cuba

Saturday, April 22nd vs El Salvador

Matches are all at 6pm Eastern Time.

Edited March 19, 2023 by Olympique_de_Marseille

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

On 3/19/2023 at 3:49 PM, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

Just a reminder that this tournament starts a month from now.

The preliminary qualifying tournament will be hosted on neutral ground, also in the Dominican Republic.

https://www.concacaf.com/under-20s-women/article/2023-concacaf-women-s-u-20-qualifiers-schedule-confirmed/

The exact schedule can be found here:

https://www.concacaf.com/en/under-20s-women/schedule-results/

Friday, April 14th vs Martinique

Sunday, April 16th vs St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Thursday, April 20th vs Cuba

Saturday, April 22nd vs El Salvador

Matches are all at 6pm Eastern Time.

Our squad for this is out:

https://www.canadasoccer.com/news/canada-soccer-announces-squad-for-the-2023-concacaf-womens-u-20-qualifiers/

Cindy Tye will be our coach.

We have some of our bigger names in the squad like Amanda Allen and Olivia Smith. Many names from previous camps/tournaments.

 

 

Edit:

Also, the El Salvador team on our group may be not half bad.

https://www.fesfut.org.sv/recordemos-el-dia-a-dia-de-nuestras-campeonas/

Edited April 6, 2023 by Olympique_de_Marseille

[red card]

2 hours ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

Our squad for this is out:

https://www.canadasoccer.com/news/canada-soccer-announces-squad-for-the-2023-concacaf-womens-u-20-qualifiers/

Cindy Tye will be our coach.

We have some of our bigger names in the squad like Amanda Allen and Olivia Smith. Many names from previous camps/tournaments.

From last year's u17 World Cup team, we have 11 players moving up: Allen, Archibald, Briggs, A. Chukwu, Henning, Fenwick, Gray, Maalouf, Markesini,  Ottey, Perrault & Watson.

From last year's u20 World Cup team, we have 2 returnees: O. Smith & Jourde. Keeper Lallier was on both u17 & u20 teams.

So, the newbies are Collin, McBride, Murdock (was in u17 camps), Logan (was in u17 camps), Mouratidis & N. Rose (was in u17 camps).

Ontario dominance continues with 14 players. Top current club is NDC-Ontario with 10. US college players are 4. And 1 pro player.

[narduch]

Qualifying starts Friday.

 

 

[Jlo]

On 4/5/2023 at 6:00 PM, red card said:

From last year's u17 World Cup team, we have 11 players moving up: Allen, Archibald, Briggs, A. Chukwu, Henning, Fenwick, Gray, Maalouf, Markesini,  Ottey, Perrault & Watson.

From last year's u20 World Cup team, we have 2 returnees: O. Smith & Jourde. Keeper Lallier was on both u17 & u20 teams.

So, the newbies are Collin, McBride, Murdock (was in u17 camps), Logan (was in u17 camps), Mouratidis & N. Rose (was in u17 camps).

Ontario dominance continues with 14 players. Top current club is NDC-Ontario with 10. US college players are 4. And 1 pro player.

Logan played all the games with the U17 team in the World Cup.  Not a newbie.

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

On 4/12/2023 at 7:01 PM, narduch said:

Qualifying starts Friday.

Starts tonight at 6pm Eastern.

Canada's match is on OneSoccer.

The other matches are on CONCACAF's YouTube channel.

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

10 hours ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

Starts tonight at 6pm Eastern.

Canada's match is on OneSoccer.

Match highlights:

 

15-nil vs Martinique.

[Kent]

If the above highlights weren't enough, here are some longer highlights. Doesn't look like it will embed but hopefully you can follow the link to youtube and watch it there.

10 different goal scorers for Canada. But yeah, looks like this was a massive, massive, mismatch.

[JamboAl]

Canada 12

St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0.  
 

That is all.

[dyslexic nam]

31 minutes ago, JamboAl said:

Canada 12

St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0.  
 

That is all.

I watched from 1-0 to 5-0.  At that point the IIHF gold medal game offered a bit more drama.  

[lamptern]

5 hours ago, dyslexic nam said:

I watched from 1-0 to 5-0.  At that point the IIHF gold medal game offered a bit more drama.  

As always, I don’t get why a player trying to clear the puck into air when he/she is killing a 5 on 4 penalty. Compare to the risk of taking a “delay of game” penalty (going to be 5 on 3 in a 3:3 gold medal game), would it be safer to just slam the puck to other side of the rink? If he/she failed to get the puck out of blue line, it won’t be end of the world, but give the opponent a chance of 5 on 3 would.

[dyslexic nam]

5 hours ago, lamptern said:

As always, I don’t get why a player trying to clear the puck into air when he/she is killing a 5 on 4 penalty. Compare to the risk of taking a “delay of game” penalty (going to be 5 on 3 in a 3:3 gold medal game), would it be safer to just slam the puck to other side of the rink? If he/she failed to get the puck out of blue line, it won’t be end of the world, but give the opponent a chance of 5 on 3 would.

Not going to pull any punches because of the feel-good vibe surrounding the tournament - that was the dumbest play I have seen in a long time.  She shoveled the puck into the upper deck of the arena so its not like it was even close to an decent clearance.  And under the circumstances, she singlehandedly cost our team the chance at a gold medal.   

Having said that, the US generally looked like the stronger/faster team.  We had bursts where we looked like equals, but a lot of the time we were getting outhustled.  But despite that, we were 3-3 in the 3rd until that boneheaded decision.  Frustrating. 

[Kent]

Highlights for anyone curious. I feel bad for the keeper. She was out of her depth.

 

[red card]

With most groups having only 4 teams while Canada's group has 5, 4/6 nations have already qualified.

Jamaica beat Honduras 2-0 to clinch top spot in Group E played in Managua. Panama won an easy Group B played in Curacao.

Puerto Rico won Group D with a 5-0 win over T&T in Curacao. In Group C, playing at home, Dominican Republic won only on a +2 goal difference over Guyana as the match between the teams ended scoreless.