With the World Cup a year distant, international soccer fans this summer are focusing on regional championships. The CONCACAF region, of which the United States is a member, holds its championship, the Gold Cup, starting tomorrow*, in various venues across the US. Ives Galarcep over at ESPNSoccernet has a group-by-group preview. If all goes as planned, the US and Mexico will meet up in Chicago on June 24 for the final. Which becomes just another chance for us to continue our domination of El Tri in recent years.
The US kicks off play in Group B against Guatemala tomorrow at 9pm EST on Fox Soccer Channel, with other group matches on June 9 (Trinidad & Tobago) and June 12 (El Salvador).
* UPDATE: Whoops! Looks like action kicked off today in Group A. My bad.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Gold Cup Fever - Contract It!
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Concaf has generally been Mexico and the US + some minnows in recent years. I doubt that FIFA would let it happen, but should we look to jump to another region?
Hopefully, Canada will step it up in the next few years with a presence in MLS to grow talent. They did knock off Costa Rica last night, 2-1.
I don't think FIFA would want us to switch regions and I don't think the other regions would want us. South American is happy with their 10-nation setup. Asia (hey, we share an ocean) is too far away. Oceania? Hell, even Australia is out of there.
What we need to do is regularly participate in tournaments like the Copa America (as we will later this season) and the Confederations Cup to get some higher level meaningful games between World Cups.
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