Haiti politically stable ? Dat country will never ever be politically stable . Haiti does gave de rest a de carribean bad name.. allyuh fellas killing one another for politicians .. De worst thing that ever happen to Haiti is getting independence .Anyway no disresepct meant is jes facts I stating . Haiti is a very good team and I will not be suprised if Haiti reach the world cup for there first time . I dont concider you guys first Journey to the world cup (paying of de refs against My beloved TNT). I wont be proud of that ..
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Haiti politically stable ? Dat country will never ever be politically stable .Heh! The Jews probably thought the same way about their 'pax romana' until they decided to try out their relative freedom and ...they got the Massada! Go figure or simply ask Zimbabwe!
De worst thing that ever happen to Haiti is getting independence .Just curious: what can you possibly know about "independence"?
Haiti does gave de rest a de carribean bad nameHow so? Tigers' cubs grow to become tigers, not pet cats like some of our detractors are , if you see what i mean
allyuh fellas killing one another for politicians Argentina, Bolivia, Germany, Japan, China, Turkey, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba...almost every country in the world at one time or another have "fellas killing one another for politicians ". It's only bad when it happens in Haiti, I guess.
Haiti is a very good team and I will not be suprised if Haiti reach the world cup for there first time .No sir, that would not be the first time. We won the concacaf championship in 1973 after we beat Guatemala 2-1, finishing the competition on top with one match to spare!
I dont concider you guys first Journey to the world cup (paying of de refs against My beloved TNT)Honestly, why would Haiti, the runners-up of the 1969 WCQ, paid off a referee against a team that it beat 6-0 just a few months earlier, specially when Haiti was the host? Does that really make sense to you? I don't really want to take that away from you if that's all you have to lean on, however, you're just not making sense at all.
Here some important details that can help you, my friend:
1- Haiti started the competition with a victory while TnT started with a loss.
In those days, the 2 pts for a victory systems made it almost impossible for a team who has a defeat to advance. For example, in 1969, Haiti beat everybody but El Salvador, which unfortunately won all its matches. ES qualified.
Same scenarion in 1977. Haiti had 4 wins, 0 draw, and just 1 Defeat. That one defeat caused haiti to finish 2nd to Mexico.
2- Haiti and TnT met in their 2nd match day, not in a final showdown.
It seems to me some of you think Haiti and TnT met in a winner take it all! That's quite far from the truth.
The teams met at the beginning of the competition and TnT, which was an outsider anyway at the time, came to the match with 0pt.
TnT was not considered a big team at the time. For example, TnT wasn't in the finals in 1969 and TnT's presense in Port-au-Prince was due mostly to the fact that Haiti was already qualified as host and the other top Caribbean team, the Netherlands-Antilles, was already in decline. TnT struggled to beat a reseves Haitian team just a few weeks before the tournament.
3- The controversial game
Haiti took the lead and went defensive knowing that it only needed a win against TnT. That's what induces some of you to believe that TnT was the superior team. Had any of TnT's disallowed goals counted and the match would have naturally changed. During the whole match, TnT was playing to level the game while Haiti was trying to kill the game.
Did the ref made bad calls? He certainly did as he was severly punished for that later. Many Haitians would tell you that the referees were biased in that match. But, did Haiti pay that ref? Probably not. Haiti continued to beat TnT almost everytimes they met in the 70s!!!
However, it amused me when I hear some of you say "Haiti tief we". Let's assume the corrupt dictator J-C Duvalier did pay the ref, how is that Haiti's fault and why hating on Haiti for the actions of a man? Would you like to be held reliable for Jack Warner's actions?
4- Which team was better?
Haiti beat the team that beat TnT in TnT's opening game. Does that tell you something? Did Haiti also 'tief that team' as well or did that team 'tief' TnT?
Then, things became suddenly interesting for Haiti as the other teams started drawing each others leaving Haiti on top of the tournament. The competition was over after Haiti's 4th match against Guatemala! Naturally, the real contenders were disappointed. Believe it or not, that's the context in which TnT was able to win its remaining 3 matches.
-5 conclusion
Was TnT-1973 one of the best concacaf team or the best team out of TnT?TnT experience in 1973 was similar to that of Panama in the 2005 GC, an outsider that had a great competition. In fact, just like the Panamanian team, the TnT-1973 team could not even qualified for the following Hex in 1977 while not only the Haiti-1973 team did qualified for Mexico 1977, the team finished 2nd in that competition.
