CONCACAF 2022 U20/U23 Championships Tournament Thread

Marcelo Flores has chosen Mexico, per his Twitter. Wonder if we'll see him at U20 qualifying.

 

⏱ Inicia la #Cuentaregresiva||

Premundial #U20 de @Concacaf en #Honduras🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

📍#SanPedroSula y 📍 #Tegucigalpa se visten de gala para recibir a las naciones participantes.

Camino al mundial de @fifacom_es #Indonesia 🇮🇩
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— Selección Nacional de Honduras (@FenafuthOrg) May 17, 2022

 

Will we see provisional rosters soon? I don't know! But we do have match times:

https://www.concacaf.com/under-20s-...-s-u-20-championship-kickoff-times-confirmed/

 

Canada released its provisional roster. They filled it to the brim, with a lot of overseas-based players and guys who had at least flirted with other countries (including the U.S.) recently.

https://canadasoccer.com/news/canad...-for-the-concacaf-mens-under-20-championship/

I really have no idea whether CONCACAF will release a full compilation of all provisional squads as it has done for recent major competitions, or whether it will be left to the countries. But I don't think either are obligated.

 

Has anyone seen anything else from CONCACAF or the federations lately?

Here's a recent Honduran callup list, but it appears to be for a camp, not a provisional roster. It may be of course that anyone on this list is on the provisional roster, since my understanding of the rules is that you have to be on the PR to play in the tournament.

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🔷️Convocatoria de la selección #U20 dirigida por el D.T 👤 Luis Alvarado para nuevo microciclo en 📍#SPS.

🗓 2️⃣2️⃣ - 2️⃣9️⃣ de mayo#Premundial2022 #Preparación #SelecciónU20 #FENAFUTH pic.twitter.com/2wcQ9KBANh

— Selección Nacional de Honduras (@FenafuthOrg) May 20, 2022

I also noticed that Perez recently said (in the same Twitter thread linked above) that 5 members of the ES U20 squad are seen as senior candidates, or something like that.

I figure all the provisional lists must have been filed by now, unless I suppose some kind of extension was granted.

 

Maybe Davidson's American too? Not sure, but he seems to have played for Weston at some point, and a lot of Americans end up at Malaga.

 

T&T is in camp.

Check out some images from the current Trinidad and Tobago Men's U20 Training Camp at the Home of Football in Couva.

The Squad, under head coach Angus Eve is preparing for the 2022 Concacaf Men's U-20 Championship in Honduras next month. pic.twitter.com/fFJz8zvR6X

— TTFA (@TTFootballAssoc) May 23, 2022

 

In case you wanna read more about that:

Concacaf's new agreement with TelevisaUnivision will also include two editions of the Concacaf Men's U20 Championship, beginning with the tournament slated to be played in Honduras in June 2022. This competition will be played under a new format that qualifies teams to both the FIFA U20 World Cup and the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. The agreement will also see TelevisaUnivision cover two editions of the Concacaf Men’s U17 Championships, two editions of the Concacaf Beach Soccer Championships and one edition of the Concacaf Futsal Championship.​

https://www.concacaf.com/news/conca...agree-to-multi-year-media-rights-partnership/

 

I think, after the latest round of signings and first-team appearances, these are the only current U20s (guys with callups) who don't have pro deals, based partly on semi-educated guesses. Please correct me if I'm wrong! (Deleted/reposted after initially putting in the wrong thread.)

Dade KyMani
Downs Damion
Fletcher Kristian
Guadalupe Quembol
Karumanchi Tarun
Van Deventer Jayvin

 

And at this point, I guess I'd be surprised if we saw a provisional roster, though maybe if a few other FAs release theirs, we'd join in. With that said, since we haven't even called 60 guys into the U20s, we can probably guess at who would be on it, give or take a few surprises I suppose (which might be why the list hasn't been announced).

 

There's also supposed to be a U19 camp in Europe soonish, which might reasonably include some 04s who are aiming for qualifying.

 

I guess the main takeaway is that the lists won't be published, but the explanation is confusing, at least to me. Unless I'm reading this wrong, the rules say there was a deadline for the provisional rosters (which I'm pretty sure has passed) and that those lists are binding for the purpose of final roster selection. So what part exactly is fluid?

 

That could be it. It's also consistent, I'm pretty sure, with recent CONCACAF YNT tournaments.