As the November 2020 window ended there are a couple of things must be addressed: Only UEFA had all member associations play at least one out of the three possible games (Only confederation that was allowed to play three games in this window) Israel, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Romania played two …
CONCACAF announced a couple of changes regarding that their international club tournaments. The one change that will impact the teams in the NAFU or North American Football Union is that the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League will come back in mid December to finish the tournament. This return will …
As always FIFA decided to revamp their formula on how each National team obtains points and therefore making headway in the FIFA Rankings. The old formula was relatively simple but there major flaws especially with the fact that UEFA had a coefficient higher than that of CONCACAF or CAF (Africa). …
That is a bold statement in the title of this piece but the USMNT has a historic ineptitude of winning abroad. In fact in the games between the four nations who have safely clinched a spot in the Hex for the next World Cup, the US has an overall win-loss-draw …
There are 12 spots confirmed for the Gold Cup in 2021, but there are four spots to be awarded still. In this 12 team playoff there are the last placed nations in League A, the second placed nations in League B and the first placed teams from League C. Those …
This is an article not like the others as there were three major bombshells that happened today. The first is that Russia has been banned from all major international competitions starting on 2019 till 2023. The second is about CONCACAF. ___________________________________________________________________________________ RUSSIA BANNED FROM 2020 TOKYO OLYMPICS, 2022 BEIJING WINTER …
So this would be a long post as it covers about 29 nations and most have a little to no chance of making the Hexagonal or promotion or Gold Cup Qualification. So without further ado here is League B and its clinching scenarios Group A Wins Draws Losses + – …
As all national teams have played at least 2 games there are a couple of clinching scenarios that are going to be happening. Some are easy like wining one point to others needing at least four points to clinch the group. Since there is so many scenarios this would only …
Normally the term derby is considered about clubs but this time let’s talk about the most important rivalry in the Central American Zone of CONCACAF in terms of national teams. I am not referring that of the Football War (El Salvador-Honduras) nor that between Costa Rica and Panama but of …
After two match days done, there have been surprises. The only non surprise is Canada beating Cuba twice by an average margin of 3.5 goals. The first game that they played was not even a contest because Canada obliterated Cuba 6-0 in Toronto. The biggest surprise is two fold. One …
Before I go into my commentary on the matter, I would want to give you the facts of this tenure. Facts In October 3rd of 2018, he was appointed manager of the Costa Rican National Team after Oscar “El Macho” Ramirez was fired after a disastrous 2018 World Cup performance. …
As the Nations League is about to start here is what’s at stake: Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Canada and Curacao are all battling the last two spots in the Hexagonal Jamaica is most likely going to secure their spot in the Hexagonal United States, Mexico, and Costa Rica are all …
