Gold Cup Schedule to be announced March 6th

[ChelseaMatt]

http://www.concacaf.com/view_article.asp?id=3734

2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup™ Groups & Schedule to be announced on 6 March

1.3.07 - CONCACAF will announce on Tuesday (6 March) from its offices in New York City the final groups and schedule for the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup™.
The announcement of teams and the full tournament match schedule will take place at 2:30 pm ET and be made via a video news release that will be available via satellite and online at www.CONCACAF.com.

This will be followed at 3:00 pm ET by a Media Teleconference Call with CONCACAF General Secretary, Chuck Blazer. Teleconference numbers as well as the satellite information for the video news release will be announced on Monday (5 March).

The 12 CONCACAF-team field for the ninth edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup™ is comprised of the previous champions (Canada, Mexico, USA), four Caribbean qualifiers (Cuba, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago) and the five Central American qualifiers (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama). The Gold Cup takes place from 6-24 June in six venues across the USA.

The 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup™ opens in Miami’s Orange Bowl on 6 June with the Final scheduled for Soldier Field, Chicago, on 24 June. The four other venues that will host Gold Cup games in 2007 are Giants Stadium (near New York City) in New Jersey, The Home Depot Center (near Los Angeles) in Carson, California, Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, close to Boston, Massachusetts.

CONCACAF GOLD CUP HISTORY
YEAR, CHAMPION, RUNNER-UP, VENUES
1991 - USA - Honduras - Los Angeles, Pasadena (USA)
1993 - Mexico - USA - Dallas (USA); Ciudad de México (México)
1996 - Mexico - Brazil - Anaheim, San Diego, Los Angeles (USA)
1998 - Mexico - USA - Oakland, Miami, Los Angeles (USA)
2000 - Canada - Colombia - San Diego, Miami, Los Angeles (USA)
2002 - USA - Costa Rica - Pasadena, Miami (USA)
2003 - Mexico - Brazil - Foxboro, Miami (USA); Ciudad de México (México)
2005 - USA - Panama - Carson, Foxboro, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, NY/NJ, Seattle (USA)

[garnet&blackattack]

cool. thanks.

[ussoccerFan12358]

Yip-py!:rolleyes:

[kebzach]

thanks

[Galaxian]

So are these draws random , or are they planned ?

Last year IIRC , they unveiled the groups , which means the venues for each group were planned ... ?

If this is the case , it looks like we might get the HDC , seeing as how they have a friendly in San Jose on June 2nd.

[NBlue]

What happenned to Jamaica?

[Davids26]

So are these draws random , or are they planned ?

Last year IIRC , they unveiled the groups , which means the venues for each group were planned ... ?

If this is the case , it looks like we might get the HDC , seeing as how they have a friendly in San Jose on June 2nd.

Can't remember there ever being a time where the Gold Cup groups were decided by draw. Ask Cuba, Canada, and Costa Rica how they seem to end up together all the time.

And Jamaica didn't qualify.

[sccrhound]

So are these draws random , or are they planned ?

Last year IIRC , they unveiled the groups , which means the venues for each group were planned ... ?

If this is the case , it looks like we might get the HDC , seeing as how they have a friendly in San Jose on June 2nd.

Is that based on fact, or a hope?

[NBlue]

And Jamaica didn't qualify.


I'm admittedly completely out of the loop here, but isn't it rather shocking that Jamaica failed to qualify against the likes of Guadeloupe, Cuba and Haiti? I knew the Reggae Boyz had gone downhill since 2002 but this is a bit surprising -- to me anyway.

[Adam Zebrowski]

some one posted a link...

there was a 4 team group with 2 advancing...

3 tied on points...

jamaica lost out on the tie breaker...

[Atouk]

I'm admittedly completely out of the loop here, but isn't it rather shocking that Jamaica failed to qualify against the likes of Guadeloupe, Cuba and Haiti? I knew the Reggae Boyz had gone downhill since 2002 but this is a bit surprising -- to me anyway.There were three rounds of qualifying and they didn't get out of the first-round group they hosted. As was mentioned, there was a three-way tie with 2-1 records, but "the reggae boyz were eliminated from the Digicel Caribbean Cup as they lost the tiebreakers to the Haitians (goal difference) and the vincy heat (head-to-head)." (http://www.concacaf.com/competitions/goldcup/viewArticle.asp?id=3580)

The 1-2 loss to St. Vincent & the Grenadines (http://www.concacaf.com/competitions/goldcup/viewArticle.asp?id=3576) killed them.

Group/Grupo D GP/PJ W/G L/D T/E +/- PTS
Haiti 3 2 1 0 11:3 6
St. Vincent & The Grenadines 3 2 1 0 10:5 6
Jamaica 3 2 1 0 7:2 6
St. Lucia 3 0 3 0 1:19 0

27.9.2006 Haiti - St. Vincent/Grenadines 4:0 (1:0) Kingston, JAM
27.9.2006 Jamaica - St. Lucia 4:0 (4:0) Kingston, JAM
29.9.2006 St. Lucia - Haiti 1:7 (0:4) Kingston, JAM
29.9.2006 Jamaica - St. Vincent/Grenadines 1:2 (0:0) Kingston, JAM
1.10.2006 St. Vincent/Grenadines - St. Lucia 8:0 (3:0) Kingston, JAM
1.10.2006 Jamaica - Haiti 2:0 (2:0) Kingston, JAM


http://www.concacaf.com/viewCompetition.asp?id=210

[ussoccerFan12358]

Predictions anybody?

LA * Houston * Miami
* *
USA * Mexico * Cuba
Panama * Haiti * Honduras
Guatemala * Canada * Costa Rica
El Salvador * Guadeloupe * TT

[scaryice]

Mexico should be in NY/HOU, and the USA in LA/NE. At least you would think, since NE is a more suitable place for the USA in the quarterfinals (likewise HOU for Mexico). I guess that we can have two more games in LA, since the other teams are ones who will be drawing fans.

Haiti will be in Miami, while Cuba won't. I would imagine Costa Rica would headline that group since they're the third best team.

Guess:

LA/NE-United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, Trinidad
NY/HOU-Mexico, Panama, Honduras, Cuba
MIA-Costa Rica, Canada, Haiti, Guadalupe

[ussoccerFan12358]

Should we start a prediction thread?

[ussoccerFan12358]

To answer my own question yes I will.

[Red Card]

Should we start a prediction thread?

I predict a Cuban defector.