CFU women Gold Cup qualifiers kick off.

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CFU women Gold Cup qualifiers kick off.
T&T Newsday Reports.

Women’s Gold Cup qualifying series opened on Wednesday at the Georgetown Cricket Ground in host Guyana when Suriname faced St Vincent and the Grenadines in the opening Caribbean Group A match.

There will be 17 teams in five groups, vying to be the two Caribbean representatives to the six-team CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup in late October or early November.

Apart from Suriname, StVincent and Guyana in Group A, the other first-round groups will be comprised of Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts and Nevis, Puerto Rico and Dominica in Group B in Puerto Rico March 17-21; Antigua and Barbuda, US Virgin Islands and St Luica in Group C in Antigua March 12-16; Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Turks and Caicos Islands in Group D in the Dominican Republic, March 26-30; and Barbados, Anguilla and Grenada in Group E in Barbados, March 28-April 1.

The five group winners plus the three best runners-up will advance, from which the top four teams will qualify for the Central American and Caribbean Games in July in Puerto Rico.

CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup Qualifiers:

First Round - GROUP A: At Georgetown, Guyana - March 3 - Suriname vs St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Today - Guyana vs Suriname.

Sunday - Guyana vs St Vincent and the Grenadines

GROUP B: At Puerto Rico - March 17 - Trinidad and Tobago vs St. Kitts and Nevis; Puerto Rico vs Dominica.

March 19 - St Kitts and Nevis vs Dominica; Puerto Rico vs Trinidad and Tobago.

March 21 - Trinidad and Tobago vs Dominica; Puerto Rico vs St Kitts and Nevis.

GROUP C: At Antigua and Barbuda - March 12 - Antigua and Barbuda vs US Virgin Islands.

March 14 - US Virgin Islands vs St Lucia.

March 16 - Antigua and Barbuda vs St Lucia.

GROUP D: At Dominican Republic - March 26 - Cuba vs Haiti; Dominican Republic vs Turks and Caicos.

March 28 - Turks and Caicos vs Haiti; Dominican Republic vs Cuba

March 30 - Cuba vs Turks and Caicos; Dominican Republic vs Haiti

GROUP E: At Barbados - March 28 - Barbados vs Anguilla.

March 30 - Anguilla vs Grenada.

April 1- Barbados vs Grenada.

[warmonga]

how long this tournament goin on. this is a good tournamnet .maybe I need to start mek sum gal children. my boys dem only wah play video games.
war

[Soccer 19]

The 1st round is over in Guyana

The otherday Suriname beat St Vincent on a PK one nil.

Guyana beat Suriname 2 nil

Guyana beat St Vincent 1 nil today

Can anyone tell me what happened to Cuba as they were originally in this group ?
Why did they not make the trek to play ?


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Cash-less JFF ignores Women's qualifiers.
BY HOWARD WALKER Observer staff.

Lack of funding has forced the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) to pull the plug on the senior female footballers by not entering the qualifiers of the CONCACAF Gold Cup later this year.

The Caribbean qualifiers kicked off last Wednesday with 17 teams vying for two spots to the six-team Gold Cup slated for late October or early November.

Jamaica's non-participation also means the Reggae Girlz will miss a chance to qualify for the Central American and Caribbean Games in July in Puerto Rico.

JFF's general secretary Horace Reid it was the best thing to do in light of the limited resources available.

Said Reid: "When you have scare resources you have to prioritise. The focus will be on our developmental programmes; instead of pumping money into the top part of the programme, we'll put into the bottom part of the programme."

Under the present cash-strapped economic climate, the situation regarding the senior women's team will not change "until the funding situation at the JFF improves".

"The JFF is looking at some strategic position for women's development coming out of the failure of the Under-20s as well," Reid told the Sunday Observer.

In January, the National Under-20 girls failed in their effort to qualify for the FIFA World Cup after losing all three games to the USA, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago.

"The talent that is coming through once they get to the top... are not good enough or not competitive enough. We're doing fairly well at the Caribbean (level), but that's neither here nor there. When we get to the other level the gap is widening, it's not closing," Reid lamented.

"What we should do is spend a lot more time and resources at the prep and primary school level," he offerred.

But the general thought is that one cannot cut off the head and expect the body to function.

"We don't believe so. The truth is when we get to that level we are just honouring the fixture without a realistic chance of going further. When you have very scare resources you have to identify and prioritise where we put those resources.

"...Nine national teams and.... if you spread yourself thin you don't give any of your teams a real shot," Reid noted.

The senior Reggae Girlz participated in the 2008 Olympic qualifiers and failed at the CONCACAF level under coach Charles Edwards.

Since then, they have been inactive amid the JFF's failed effort to secure sponsorship last year and a decision was taken to forego this year's Gold Cup qualifiers.

Now the onus is on the Under-17s to deliver, and they will enter their CONCACAF Championship set for March 10 in which two teams will qualify for the World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago in July.

[Deeks]

How unfortunate. Women sports does always get the short end of the stick.

[Soccer 19]

Very sad day for the JFF and their womens football program as you want to see the best in the Caribbean play the play.

Does anyone know why Cuba was moved out of Guyana's group and now play Haiti later on this month?


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