2014 CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying: Other Teams thread [R]

Of the 14 USVI players in yesterday's game, Alberto Van Gurp plays at Virginia Tech, Macdonald Taylor Jr. is at Seton Hill (Greensburg, Pa.), Derrick Smith is at Pitt, Kai Schuster is at Stetson and Alexander Nissman was at Rollins.

And from the Bahamas team that's up 4-0 on Turks & Caicos...
Demont Mitchell - Hofstra
Cameron Hepple - Bowling Green, Kitsap Pumas (PDL)
Shemord Thompson - Rogers State (Oklahoma)
Michael Bethel - Univ. of Tampa
Mackenson Altidor - Temple
Dana Veth - Minnesota-Morris, is an ast. coach at Spring Hill (Alabama)
Raynaldo Sturrup - rising soph. at Thomas (Ga.)
Jonathan Sykes - Maryville (Tenn.)
Happy Hall - Appalachian St., Dayton Dutch Lions (USL-2)
Anton Sealey Jr. - North Carolina

 

more than that played college ball and moved down to the island for other reasons.

 

More Bahamas-U.S. links

Christopher Larson - Catholic U. (D.C.)
Raymorn Sturrup - IMG Academy
Nesley Jean - Richmond Kickers youth teams
Lesly St. Fleur - Ave Maria U. (Fla.)

 

Dillon Pieffer - USVI’s starting GK, Sunday was his 3rd cap - according to UNLV, born in Richmond, hometown is Colorado Springs, was a kicker/punter at UNLV from 2000-04, one of the best kickers in Mountain West Conf. and UNLV history with 231 points and a 3-time All-MWC All-Academic player. He had a cup of coffee as a free agent signee with the St. Louis Rams. He’s the head (American) football coach at a private school in St. Croix.

More USVI-US (mainland) links
Ayinde Augustus - Central Florida Kraze (PDL)
Lishati Bailey - played 3 matches with Duquesne in 2003
Reid Klopp - Salisbury Univ. (Md.), seemingly class of 2006 - scored to make it 2-0 yesterday

 

You've already been corrected on how the current formula works, but I'll also add, this appears to be a misconception about how the old formula worked too. It was never the case that losses didn't hurt your ranking. The way it used to be, your points for the previous year would be determined by ranking the point value of all of your matches, taking the top seven as they were, and averaging the rest and adding those as an eighth. A loss in a prospective top seven game would have a significant opportunity cost, and over and above that, it would also reduce the average of "the rest".

 

Belize is making plans to play the second leg of their World Cup qualifier with Montserrat in Honduras, even though the FFB is still suspended by FIFA and the June 30 deadline for resolution has passed. http://7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=20040

If the match is not played by Sunday, Belize will forfeit and Montserrat will advance to the 3x4.

 

It could make a good trivia question years from now about Montserrat: What was the last country to advance a round in World Cup qualifying without earning any wins or draws in the previous round?

 

Do you think it's the last? For 2010, Kuwait and Indonesia both accomplished that feat, and the only reason it didn't happen in CAF was that two teams withdrew in time for a re-draw.

 

Apparently there was indeed "at least a small chance" for this scenario.

 

Repped.

 

we'll have to wait and see what happens, but i dont see much happening

 

Dominican Republic up 1-0 on Anguilla in the 30'

goal by Domingo PERALTA (8')

 

FT: Anguilla 0 - 2 Dominican Republic. Jonothan Fana Frias, who plays with Puerto Rico Islanders, had the second goal in the 42'. The return leg in the Dominican will be on July 10.

 

They play soccer in the DR?

I thought it was baseball, baseball, and baseball.

 

It is... which is why their soccer team is in the first round.

 

FT, Aruba 4 - 2 St. Lucia, second leg July 12

 

FT: Aruba 4 : 2 St. Lucia

Game was tied 1:1 at half time and 2:2 in the 50th minute. Aruba scored twice in the final 20 minutes to pull away.

2nd leg is in St. Lucia on July 12.

 

Been searching and searching and can't find it. I was wondering if the next stage of CONCACAF Qualifying where the teams are drawn into 6 groups of 4, they say the games will be played in Sept and Oct 2011. Are they just gonna play 3 games? or they gonna fit 6 in that?

 

Bahamas through to the next round, defeating Turks and Caicos 5-0 at home, 9-0 on aggregate.