Author Topic: T&T await winners of CONCACAF play-offs for 2014 W/Cup qualifiers (Read 16753 times)

FireBrand · « **on:** April 26, 2011, 04:12:36 PM »

T&T await winners of CONCACAF play-offs for 2014 W/Cup qualifiers.
By: Shaun Fuentes (TTFF).

The North, Central America and Caribbean Zone (CONCACAF) will contest play-off matches in June 2011 in order to reduce the number of teams included in the Preliminary Draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil in Rio de Janeiro on July 30 2011.

And from these playoffs, Trinidad and Tobago’s first opponent will be determined, resulting from the subsequent Preliminary Draw.

The region’s ten lowest ranked teams according to March’s FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking were paired against each other to produce a series of five play-off matches which will be played on a two-legged, home and away basis.

Montserrat-Belize
Anguilla-Dominican Republic
US Virgin Islands-British Virgin Islands
Aruba-St. Lucia
Bahamas-Turks and Caicos Islands

The winners of these fixtures will join the remaining 25 higher-ranked teams from the region in the Preliminary Draw. The first leg will be played on Friday 3 June, with the return leg scheduled for Tuesday 7 June.

The teams taking part in this extra preliminary round of fixtures were determined according to their rank in the region on the March FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. T&T are currently ranked 94th on the world rankings and tenth in Concacaf, one spot behind El Salvador and one above Haiti.

T&T head coach Otto Pfister returns to Port of Spain later this month from his trip to the UK and will conduct his first training session on May 2 at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva.

“The head coach returns from his overseas trip shortly and will commence his training with the selected home-based players.

We are in the process of identifying foreign-born players who are eligible to represent Trinidad and Tobago to join the already existing pool of local and foreign-based players.

At the same time we will also play a friendly international on the June 2 FIFA international window and this match will be announced in due course once all arrangements have been confirmed,” TTFF technical adviser Keith Look Loy told TTFF Media on Tuesday.

madness · « **Reply #1 on:** April 26, 2011, 04:20:27 PM »

wow, i hope the coach look at the team very carefully and do a good job with them.

Kingk · « **Reply #2 on:** April 26, 2011, 11:20:27 PM »

any word on the players he approached ?
who were they & if they are genuinely interested ?

Jayerson · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2011, 08:08:44 AM »

I thought with the new format, they would reduce the number of teams to 32

Not 30. And that there will be 8 groups of 4. What format are they going to use with 30 teams?

Jayerson · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2011, 08:38:00 AM »

I put this thread separately (I expect it to be merged) because I'm seeing differing information as to the WCQ format.

Concacaf.com
04/26/2011World Cup qualifying to begin June 3

NEW YORK - The 10 lowest CONCACAF teams in the FIFA rankings will face off in two-leg series June 3 and June 7, beginning the region's qualifying process for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

FIFA announced on Tuesday the five preliminary round matchups, which is part of a proposal by the CONCACAF Executive Committee still pending full approval from FIFA that includes three group phases.

If authorized by the FIFA Executive Committee at the end of May at its meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, the winners between Montserrat- Belize, Anguilla- Dominican Republic, U.S. Virgin Islands-British Virgin Islands, Aruba-St. Luca and Bahamas-Turks and Caicos Islands would advance to the first group phase.

They would join the next highest 19 teams from the March 2011 FIFA rankings in one of six, four-team groups set to play from September to November later this year.

The group winners would then qualify for a three-group semifinal round - tentatively set for June-October 2012 -- along with the top six CONCACAF teams from the March FIFA rankings: the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Cuba.

The top two teams from each of the semifinal round groups would advance to a six-team final round group - referred to by some in previous years as the "Hexagonal" -- to be played from February to October 2013. The final round would determine CONCACAF's three guaranteed berths and a fourth team that will enter a playoff with a side from another confederation for a final place.

Although not yet approved, the preliminary round winners would be included in a pot at the World Cup Preliminary Draw along with Bermuda.

Three other pots would include teams based on the March rankings. Puerto Rico, Barbados, Curacao, St. Vincent, the Cayman Islands and Nicaragua in one; Antigua, Guyana, Suriname, St. Kitts and Nevis, Guatemala and Dominica in another; and Panama Canada, El Salvador, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago and Haiti in the last.

Jayerson · « **Reply #5 on:** April 27, 2011, 09:49:56 AM »

Is it me, or does this format sound a bit daunting? $:-\$

socachynee · « **Reply #6 on:** April 27, 2011, 09:26:28 PM »

Panama Canada, El Salvador, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago and Haiti in the last

NUFF · « **Reply #7 on:** April 28, 2011, 01:44:58 PM »

I think it is foolish that they use FIFA rankings to determine something as important as world cup qualifying.

Mose · « **Reply #8 on:** April 28, 2011, 03:03:39 PM »

Don't like the fact that only the group winners of that first group phase will advance. Hopefully we can get our act together in time.

jamaica2099 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 28, 2011, 04:56:53 PM »

Quote from: NUFF on April 28, 2011, 01:44:58 PM

I think it is foolish that they use FIFA rankings to determine something as important as world cup qualifying.

Why didn't you say something when Jack Warner used November 2007 for the 2010 qualifiers where T&T had an easy road to the HEX.

royalian · « **Reply #10 on:** July 27, 2011, 03:53:02 PM »

Jamaica get a bligh to Round 3! We gotta fight up to come out of Round 2 with the lessers.

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/preliminarydraw/01/48/03/97/prelimdrawpotallocations.pdf

Cocorite · « **Reply #11 on:** July 27, 2011, 04:35:19 PM »

No guarantee we're coming out of that group either. . .Well Otto had a chance to observe Panama and El Salv now he has to know what he has available to him and work his majic. . .

BUT we CAN do it

elan · « **Reply #12 on:** July 27, 2011, 04:48:39 PM »

FF · « **Reply #13 on:** July 27, 2011, 06:13:24 PM »

Quote from: Cocorite on July 27, 2011, 04:35:19 PM

No guarantee we're coming out of that group either. . .Well Otto had a chance to observe Panama and El Salv now he has to know what he has available to him and work his majic. . .

BUT we CAN do it

You cannot be drawn with teams from your pot.

We will meet teams from the other Pots.. de only strongish team then is Guatemala
... and ah guess Belize and Bermuda

Cocorite · « **Reply #14 on:** July 27, 2011, 06:51:05 PM »

Yeah just trying to keep you guys on your toes

Thanks

jamaica2099 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 27, 2011, 08:58:05 PM »

Quote from: royalian on July 27, 2011, 03:53:02 PM

Jamaica get a bligh to Round 3! We gotta fight up to come out of Round 2 with the lessers.

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/preliminarydraw/01/48/03/97/prelimdrawpotallocations.pdf

???If any nation got a bligh. It is Cuba, not Jamaica. If FIFA were to use July rankings for the pots Cuba would be out and Jamaica still in based on the fact that Jamaica is third in CONCACAF.

I guess since Jackula is now gone and an outdated ranking from two years ago won't be used.

just cool · « **Reply #16 on:** July 28, 2011, 03:42:45 PM »

Quote from: Cocorite on July 27, 2011, 04:35:19 PM

No guarantee we're coming out of that group either. . .Well Otto had a chance to observe Panama and El Salv now he has to know what he has available to him and work his majic. . .

BUT we CAN do it

Breds, yuh read the ting wrong, yuh have tuh read the ting sideways. the top six teams are in pot 4, and yuh have to read the tings from side tuh side.

looks like T&T would be playing guatemala , caymans, st lucia and we have tuh win the group to come out, BTW i thought the draw is on saturday ?

Controversial · « **Reply #17 on:** July 28, 2011, 04:32:19 PM »

pfister will eat those teams food, mark my words

Trini _2026 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 28, 2011, 05:15:35 PM »

Quote from: just cool on July 28, 2011, 03:42:45 PM

Quote from: Cocorite on July 27, 2011, 04:35:19 PM
No guarantee we're coming out of that group either. . .Well Otto had a chance to observe Panama and El Salv now he has to know what he has available to him and work his majic. . .

BUT we CAN do it
Breds, yuh read the ting wrong, yuh have tuh read the ting sideways. the top six teams are in pot 4, and yuh have to read the tings from side tuh side.

looks like T&T would be playing guatemala , caymans, st lucia and we have tuh win the group to come out, BTW i thought the draw is on saturday ?

no just cool they would randomly draw one team from each pot for 6 groups of 4

Deeks · « **Reply #19 on:** July 28, 2011, 05:17:55 PM »

Quote from: just cool on July 28, 2011, 03:42:45 PM

Quote from: Cocorite on July 27, 2011, 04:35:19 PM
No guarantee we're coming out of that group either. . .Well Otto had a chance to observe Panama and El Salv now he has to know what he has available to him and work his majic. . .

BUT we CAN do it
Breds, yuh read the ting wrong, yuh have tuh read the ting sideways. the top six teams are in pot 4, and yuh have to read the tings from side tuh side.

looks like T&T would be playing guatemala , caymans, st lucia and we have tuh win the group to come out, BTW i thought the draw is on saturday ?

We have our work cut out for us. We have to beat all them teams. We should take all of them seriously. If a scenario comes up with TT and Guat. equal on points, then most goals/goal difference will certainly matter. So this coach better get our team ready to score goals on the so-called weaker teams. No excuses. Coach making big money to prepare this team for the WC, not Panam games, not GC, not Olimpics. The WC in Brazil, sah. No f--king excuses. Winning is the ONLY thing.

dreamer · « **Reply #20 on:** July 28, 2011, 05:21:30 PM »

Deeks

2cents · « **Reply #21 on:** July 30, 2011, 12:46:34 PM »

great news (provided trini reach final stage). concacaf gonna play oceania this time instead of south america in the playoff. so thats probably new zealand

Jah Gol · « **Reply #22 on:** July 30, 2011, 12:48:18 PM »

We have to reach The last 6 to even have a chance.

Reaper2004 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 30, 2011, 01:07:05 PM »

4th place have to face an Asian side AGAIN!?!?!?! they redoing the 2006 World Cup qualifying or what!?!?!?!

Tallman · « **Reply #24 on:** July 30, 2011, 01:13:07 PM »

Group B
Trinidad and Tobago
Guyana
Barbados
Bermuda

Flex · « **Reply #25 on:** July 30, 2011, 01:16:40 PM »

Quote from: Tallman on July 30, 2011, 01:13:07 PM

Group B
Trinidad and Tobago
Guyana
Barbados
Bermuda

Peong · « **Reply #26 on:** July 30, 2011, 01:17:46 PM »

Mexico
Costa Rica
Winner A
Winner B

Pressure!

Trini _2026 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 30, 2011, 01:17:52 PM »

in the next round we would be playing Costa Rica and Mexico .......

Dynamite Warrior · « **Reply #28 on:** July 30, 2011, 01:18:05 PM »

Mexico & Costa Rica

D.H.W · « **Reply #29 on:** July 30, 2011, 01:18:46 PM »

fawk

lawd