Grenada/Guyana winner to get into Semifinal Round. Other three feeders into our Semifinal Round: El Salvador vs. Bermuda/Montserrat Jamaica vs. Haiti/Turks&Caicos Panama vs. St. Lucia/British VI
Our Semi-final group: US v Grenada/Guyana winner El Salvador v Bermuda/Montserrat winner Jamaica v Haiti/Turks & Caicos winner Panama v British Virgin Is/St Lucia winner
Great draw for USA. Horrible draw for Canada. Possible Group B Semi Costa Rica Honduras Canada Guatemala
Assuming they all win. Would sure be nice if Panama could get upset by, say, Britsh Virgin Islands...would make for a better road trip in the winter...
I hate Mexico! Their semi group will be Mexico Barbados/St Kitts winner Trinidad Nicaragua/St Vincent's winner That is by far the easiest looking group. Meanwhile, Cuba got screwed. They have to play Costa Rica to get to the semifinals. That looks to be the group of death: Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and Canada
After looking at Group B, no one can say anything bad about FIFA "fixing" things. Wow. We won't have it easy, having to play El Sal down there and at "home" and booking a trip to The Office yet again. But we've always played relatively well there and the Jamaicans have some rebuilding to do. No draw is easy - and we have to get past our home and home first - but this could have been a lot, lot worse. Costa Rica has to play Cuba (likely), then go into that group. And we didn't draw a glamour Carribean vacation away leg in our first series.
Mexico probably got the best semi-final group: Mexico Barbados T&T Nicaragua/St Vincent & Grenadines We are next best, and Group B is the group of death. I can see any two of those four advance.
We're definitely in the middle group, in terms of quality. The fact that only two of Costa Rica/Honduras/Guatemala/Canada/Cuba will get to the Final Round is tough -- what a group. Of course, that probably increases ours odds in the Final Round. Mexico definitely can coast into the Final Round. A semifinal group of Trinidad, Barbados/St.Kitts, and St.Vincent/Nicaragua. Please.
Isn't Grenada a nice place to hit the beach? I'm asking; I honestly don't know. And is Guyana the French Guyana, down near South America?
From USSoccer.com Co-operative Republic of Guyana Population: 702,100 Official language: English FIFA ranking: 181 FIFA abbreviation: GUY Record vs. U.S. – never met before National Stadium: Bourda - Georgetown Team colors: Green, Yellow Did You Know? Legend says that the location of the mythical city of El Dorado, “the Gilded City,” lies somewhere on modern-day Guyana Grenada Population: 89,000 Official language: English FIFA ranking: 149 FIFA abbreviation: GRN Record vs. U.S.: no previous meetings National Stadium: Grenada National Stadium - St. George’s Team Colors: Green, Yellow, Red Did You Know? Originally dubbed “Concepcion” by Christopher Columbus in 1483, the island was re-named Grenada by Spanish sailors were who were enthralled with the lush green landscape that resembled the region of the same name in their homeland http://www.ussoccer.com/events/competitions.sps?iType=263&icustompageid=8678
Grenada--Ranked 149 by FIFA. In 2002 qualifying, lost in first round to Barbados 5-4 aggregate in extra time. In 1998 qualifying, beat Guyana 8-1 on aggregate in first round, lost 7-1 on aggregate to Haiti in second round. Guyana--Ranked 181 by FIFA. Was suspended and did not participate in 2002 qualifying. In 1998 lost to Grenada, noted above.
Guyana is a different country from French Guyana. And from what I understand, the beaches aren't that great. I knew a guy from Guyana who told me that their coastline is too close to the mouth of the Amazon, which fills their beaches with muddy water.
No idea about Grenada, but I think it's got nice beaches (isn't that why we invaded 20 years ago?). Guyana, along w/Surinam and someone else whose name escapes are indeed part of South America.
Are you serious??? You're not making a joke about the US hitting the beach in Grenada? It's not like we're talking ancient history here. The 80's weren't that long ago.